Syrian Children, Egyptian Christians - Where is Humanity's Call for Justice and Mercy?

Today there is more immensely troubling news coming from the Middle East. ~~~~~ In the south of Egypt, where radical islamists loyal to ousted President Morsi and the Moslem Brotherhood are in control, Christians are being killed, their houses burned, their possessions stolen, in some cases with attempts to sell them back to their owners, and Christian churches are being sacked and burned. In Dalga, a 1600-year-old Coptic monastery and its church was burned and its treasures destroyed. Saints remains were scattered. The priest's house was looted and burned but Moslem neighbors saved him. Another priest in the town was shot. Some Christians are paying Moslems to protect them. Others are fleeing north. The Egyptian army has not been able to bring the region under its control because of fighting an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula. So, Minya and Assiut provinces, both radical islamist strongholds and both home to Egypt's two largest Christian communities, are suffering the consequences. Dalga, located 270 kilometers (160 miles) south of Cairo in Minya, on the edge of the Nile Valley near the cliffs that mark the start of the desert, has been a radical islamist stronghold since the 1980s. Christians remaining are in hiding while their churches are ransacked and set ablaze, like the Monastery of the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam. The Anglican church was looted.This is a region in Egypt where Christians are 25% of the population, well above the national average of 10%. The radical islamist leaders had been in jail until Morsi freed them after his election and gave them a free hand in the region. They are said to be receiving arms from Libya on their western border. ~~~~~ Meanwhile, CNN is reporting today that Syrians in rebel-held areas, especially south of Damascus, are running out of food and medicines, having eaten all available grains and animals - and even tree leaves. The children in these areas are especially hard hit, with no access to protein or milk. The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is being refused access to these enclaves - all under tank-led seige by the al-Assad army. CNN showed undocumented rebel video of children starving, most of them youngsters with underlying health problems that make them especially vulnerable. Will al-Assad eventually blame the rebels and the West for this atrocity, too? ~~~~~ Dear readers, one has to ask -- have we become so callous to human suffering that nothing can move us to action? Do we feel so helpless in the face of the turmoil in the Middle East that the UN - whose only real value is in protecting vulnerable "collateral damage" human beings - has not yet seen the General Assembly rise up with one voice to help their fellow human beings? The General Assembly was quick to support Palestine...where is its support for humanity? Are Syrian children less valuable because they are Moslem? Are Egyptians expendable because they are Christian? Heaven preserve us if we have come to such an endgame.