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Under its P2P doctrine, the UN must deploy to Palestine to protect Palestinians from further Israeli war crimes.
![Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at the Hallam Conference Centre in London, Britain December 18, 2019 [Toby Melville/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2cbc6ca9906e4e6c9c5b241f05e05e0c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Palestinians and other Arabs are not interested in the promotion of ‘religious tolerance’ by highly intolerant regimes.
![A man prays at a memorial three days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, US August 6, 2019 [Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ff0aef0f8aa9499ba431fa6efa50cb5d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Mass violence is not the product of religion or culture. It is born of narratives of insecurity.
![Sudanese protesters burn tyres and set up barricades after their sit-in in Khartoum was dispersed on June 3, 2019 [Anadolu/Mahmoud Hjaj]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/898d0075f1a144648313f347c37e4b7e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
What happened on June 3 has pushed the country to the edge of the abyss.
![Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans at a protest rally demanding Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to step down, outside the defence ministry in Khartoum on April 9, 2019 [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f249d478060249929ced14e55e4ff4d2_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
An open dialogue between the protesters and the Sudanese army could pull Sudan from the brink of failed statehood.
![Sudanese demonstrators chant slogans as they march along the street during anti-government protests in Khartoum, Sudan on December 25, 2018 [Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/9defb854a852491c8f86f5331d8eff92_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
And what happens next?
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The US is becoming very skilled on conjuring up failed states, and helping them fail even more.
![Boko Haram seeks to opt out of modernity and herd Muslims back to metaphorical caves, writes Al-Effendi [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014538744336734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent.
![Armed conflicts in Darfur and the south of Sudan persist [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014416144028411734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
What would it take for a breakthrough in Sudan’s ‘national dialogue’?
The Muslim overreaction to the pope’s remarks may go to support his point about Muslim’s problems with rationality.