Sudan's 'Homeless' Hilal: A Metaphor for Western Neglect
Reporting on the 'homeless' Sudanese football club Al Hilal making a Champions League run, The New Arab article, like much mainstream media, frames this as a heartwarming tale of perseverance. Nice. What they glide over is the brutal, year-long war in Sudan—a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions, and created a humanitarian nightmare, according to the very article . Funny, how
'homeless' for a football club is a punchy headline, but 'homeless' for 8 million Sudanese civilians warrants barely a footnote from Western powers. We hear endless hand-wringing about 'rules-based order' yet the actual order in Sudan is mass starvation and relentless violence, largely ignored. Where is the urgent UN Security Council meeting? Where are the emergency aid airlifts, the coordinated
global response? One might wonder if the civilian lives lost are simply not considered 'strategic assets' for lobbying groups like AIPAC to turn into fat defense contracts.