But I also hope that this brings into the minds of those who are at the very pinnacle of our society, the loss and devastation of those more vulnerable around the world. The losses that they have experienced for generations.
Gaza.
The displaced of Ukraine.
Sudan, the world’s worst catastrophe caused through War.
And countless others, both conflicts and areas subject to natural disaster. These people have memories. They had schools that they once went to, now destroyed.
Gaza, of all of these, is the most pernicious and industrial scale of destruction, and from whom Western eyes of solidarity seemed to have found it the most easy to turn away from…
Damian Merciar is Managing Director of Merciar Business Consulting, http://www.merciar.com, a niche business economics consultancy founded in 1998. He has over twenty years experience in the areas of commercial Business Strategy. He is experienced in the transition environments of nationalized to private sector state utilities and the senior practice of commercial management, advisorial consultancy, and implementation. He has carried out policy advisory work for government ministries and been an adviser to institutional bodies proposing changes to government. He holds an MSc Economics from the University of Surrey’s leading Economics department and an MBA from the University of Kent. Also attending the leading University in the Middle East, studying International Relations and Language, for which he won a competitive international scholarship, and has a BA (Hons) in Economic History and Political Economy from the University of Portsmouth. He is currently based in London.
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