Though fighting for a just cause is often well-intentioned, and even noble, we are warned by Paul in the famous letter to the Church at Corinth that “though I give my I body to be burned, and hath not charity, I am nothing.” The poet Friedrich Schiller contended that it is through Beauty that one proceeds to true Freedom.” In supporting the cease-fire and reconstruction of Palestine/Gaza, and breaking from the United States Congress and the Biden’s Administration’s support for mass murder, now being carried out by students from scores of American campuses and activists from Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, Code Pink and others for Gaza, the world has been inspired by the glimpse of the beauty of the now-partially-awakened American people.
People around the world are overjoyed.
They have seen Beauty reflected in the refusal by tens of thousands of students, faculty and citizens to condone the mass murder of innocent people in Gaza, including those about to be slaughtered in Rafah in the next days.