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Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust.

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.