Victims of proxy wars

THIS has been a fortnight of horrible savagery. Israel is continuing to butcher children, women and civilians in Gaza in its third war against Gaza in six years. In East Ukraine, the proxy war between Russia and the West has brutally claimed the lives of 298 innocent passengers of MAS flight MH17.

In Northern Iraq, the renegade, self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), which is sponsored by some Sunni Gulf states, is conducting a fratricidal war against the Syiah government of Iraq. On the sidelines, it is indulging in flagrant violation of international law and the spirit of Islam by persecuting the small Christian minority in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and causing it to flee its ancestral homes.