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The fall of millions of innocent people in full view of the global system removed the mask from regimes that paid lip service to the values ​​of humanity and equality for decades, as the question became legitimate: “Is the Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations a charter or is it to shackle the oppressed?”

Many decades have passed since the stories of man's exclusion from his fellow man - according to the "Blind Spot" program produced by Al Jazeera Net - and the American Civil War, which extended for 4 years following the first bullet that the state of South Carolina witnessed in 1861, was nothing but a conflict between the secessionist Confederate states of the South that refused to free working slaves. In forced agriculture and the northern federal states, which are taking on the causes of modernity and professional competition.

More than 750,000 fighters were killed in this conflict, in addition to 50,000 civilians on both sides, which is more than all of the United States’ wars combined, before then-US President Abraham Lincoln announced that at the end of the war, 4 million people had been liberated, and he paid with his life for that.

The civil rights movement in the United States succeeded in abolishing the laws of racial segregation between blacks and whites by the year 1968. Among its leaders was Malcolm Confronting apartheid, Martin Luther King Jr. 3 years later.

But the real irony was the positions of black American politicians, as Colin Powell - the first black American Secretary of State - justified the war on Iraq in 2003 by claiming that it possessed weapons of mass destruction, as well as his successor in office, Condoleezza Rice, who supported the theory of creative chaos to form a new Middle East that wastes the rights of the Palestinians.

Barack Obama - the first American president of African descent - also gave the green light for military operations on 6 Arab and Islamic countries, in Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The most recent of these positions was the announcement by the US representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in 2023, of her veto power against a project to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, stricken under the brutal Israeli bombing.

Source: Al Jazeera