Last month, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called Gaza “a graveyard for tens of thousands of people and also a graveyard for many of the most important principles of humanitarian law”.
The reality may be even worse. I fear it may become the graveyard of liberalism itself.
Three decades ago, liberalism was the lead chariot in the procession of the liberal democratic project. New democracies were emerging in Europe; the Soviet Union had crumbled, and Russia was in transition; the Berlin Wall had fallen; and South Africa’s apartheid regime was collapsing. Even China exhibited signs of change. ….more
