My friend Shahar has decided to sign off every post from now on with the following:

“Moreover, I advise that the genocide in Darfur must be stopped”

This is a paraphrase on Cato the Elder, who used to sign off every speech with a pledge to destroy Carthage (”Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse”).

Israel and the whole Jewish people have commemorated the victims of Holocaust last week. We are very good in remembering what happened to us, we suck at preventing it from happening to others. We seem to have an infinite repository of excuses. Once it gets out of our immediate scope we simply do not care. I am not sure which one is worse.  

I am very ashamed of the fact we have not taken a proactive stand in the Darfur situation. I am more ashamed of myself for having done nothing to date.

I am going to take Shahar up on his initiative and sign off every post with a pledge. The thought of generating a lot of noise from the blogosphere is not far fetched.

Moreover, I advise that the genocide in Darfur must be stopped