The majority of Palestinians are living in poverty. Sadley, until our global society breaks down and total reformation occurs this will continue to be a world problem.
The Global Investment House reports that the Gaza strip tracks an unemployment rate of 29% of the people living there. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics holds that 57% of employees in Palestine live below the poverty line. Obviously, poverty is a huge issue for several of the Middle Eastern countries, and more than 65% of children living in these regions lives below the poverty line- this accounts for orphans and children who are homeless, disease-stricken and without family or resources to find stable living quarters.
Of course poverty is everywhere in our world and will continue to be present as long as we are a people driven by production, competition, and wealth. Even the U.S. participates in global benevolence through its foreign affairs endeavors and the U.N. holds treaties to promote the welfare of humankind, but what is present at the core of all of this? Are we, as humans, altruistic by birth or do some of us have a greater capacity for social justice than others. Despite politics, or even what is deserved or undeserved, do human beings possess a will outside of themselves that will fight for life? There are two political parties that argue debate and disagree when it comes to taking a stand for this cause. Regardless of what color you vote or whether you fall on the left or the right, there has got to be a commonality that exists between us all that demands us to fight for one another. This gene, this supernatural aura or spirit is not something that we as average Americans allow ourselves to tap into. When the empathy or compassion begins to surface our greed and egocentric mentality pushes us to fight it. To feel pity for another, especially for one who has gotten him or her in a bad situation, is depicted as weak and irrational. But, is it?
What more to life than to promote life for all? For some reason, some of us find that we are worth more than another or that our lives constitute everything that's valuable to this world and our narcissistic self-concepts create the framework of the boxes which we continue to live in; our own boxes, our own worlds and our own existences.
