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So now we are back from the 3rd forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations  in Rio De Janeiro and I am feeling a little sick.

As a nurse, I took out my old thermometer,  checked my body temperature and realized that I was still a couple of degrees shy of 100.6 Fahrenheit- the exact fever benchmark according to my nursing school professor who made me appreciate the importance of always been exact.

As it was not a physiologic fever, I searched deeper for the source of this discomfort.

The little doctor in me asked for a history; “can you recall the events of the past few days“

Ofcourse! I had a blast these past few days. I just came back from Rio De Janeiro, the capital of culture, where I participated in peace talks with thousands of people that came together because they thought it worthy to rub minds about ways we can build peace through cultural bridges.

The Rio forum went well in my kind and humble opinion. I don’t belong to the class of people who have been to too many of these events, to make any comparisons. Cariocas (people from Rio De Janeiro) are awesome people -gotta love them. The food and the weather was good; those are the basic concerns of a traveler- pearls from an infamous traveler I once met.

The panels served their purpose; people spoke, people listened, we lobbied while others labored… but after 4 days of meetings on Bridging Cultures and Building Peace, I was sick to learn about the attack on the Humanitarian efforts to Gaza.

For the love of GOD, wHy????????

So, what does Rio have to do with my fever, I hear you ask?

“How is it possible that in one part of the world, we sit to have peace talks and in another part of the world, people sit to do unkind things like sabotaging humanitarian efforts to people in need?”

This a very naive question I hear you say, but I will take pride in my innocence on this issue.

Can somebody please honetly tell me WHY?????????????