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Letter: Righteous anger is confusing

By Ronald Smith, Vancouver
Published: May 16, 2024, 6:00am

I’m a little confused by the righteous anger being shown in the demonstrations on university campuses over the debacle in Israel and Palestine. Why that one issue? From where does that anger stem? There are equally violent actions, putting civilians in equally desperate straits, in Syria and Ukraine, and worse atrocities in Sudan.

According to the British newspaper The Guardian: “Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the yearlong Sudanese civil war. … Witnesses describe children, still alive, being ‘piled up and shot …” Where is the anger for these actions, for these lives?

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