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their own. To our deep dismay, they
responded with a wave of violence.
Over the past year, this violence has
escalated into protracted and inhu-
man attacks on the Israeli civilian
population, forcing Israel to assume a
role we abhor, defending our citizens
by military means that we had hoped
and prayed would be relegated to the
past . . .
My own cousins, two little daugh-
ters and their brother, lost their legs
only a few weeks ago in a terrorist
attack on a bus carrying children to
school. Many Palestinian children
have likewise been wounded for life.
The vicious libels, the delegitimiza-
Hon and dehumanization we have
heard at this conference, will do
nothing to prevent more Israeli and
Palestinian mothers and fathers
bringing their young ones to their
graves.
But here today, something greater
even than peace in the Middle East is
being sacrificed — the highest values
of humanity. Racism, in all its forms,
is one of the most widespread and
pernicious evils, depriving millions of
hope and fundamental rights. It
might have been hoped that this first
conference of the 21st century would
have taken up the challenge of, if not
eradicating racism, at least disarming
it: But instead, humanity is being sac-
rificed to a political agenda .. .
Can there be a greater irony than
the fact that a conference convened to
combat the scourge of racism should
give rise to the most racist declaration
in a major international organization
since the Second World War? .. .
We are here as representatives of
states, and states of their nature have
political interests and agendas. But
we are also human beings, all of us
brothers and sisters created in the
Divine image. And in those quiet
moments when we recognize our
common humanity, and look into our
soul, let us consider what we came
here to do — and what we have in
fact done:
We came to learn from our history,
but we find it being buried to hide its
lessons.
We came to communicate in the lan-
guage of humanity, but we hear its
vocabulary twisted beyond all compre-
hension.
We came out of respect for the
sacred values entrusted to us, but see
them here perverted for political ends.
And ultimately, we came to serve
the victims of racism, but have wit-
nessed yet another atrocity, commit-
ted in their name. ❑