Knicq

Should I, or should I not write? What would I write about?

There is so much heartache, so much death, so much cruelty, so much ignorance and so much ugliness all around that I know I will not be able to maintain my positive outlook if I let it all out. I feel like such a criminal even thinking about staying positive.

For two weeks now, we have sat dumb-founded as Israel has bombarded, and murdered a people; and we have done nothing. Everyone has the numbers, everyone has the facts, and yet no-one seems to have perspective. No-one seems to understand that the tacit approval which Israel enjoys from the whole world makes the whole world complicit in this mass murder. By standing aside, and doing nothing as the village bully not only beats up but kills and maims one of us, we are ensuring that many such bullies will rise tomorrow to subject us to the exact same treatment. Or worse!

I have no energy nor the inclination to wade into a long winded argument or discussion about, or even condemnation of the Gazan Genocide. Everyone knows, or ought to know that it is deplorable and all things indescribable to starve and suffocate a people for months, and then bombard them with the deadliest ammunition at the disposal of one of the world’s most well-equipped fighting machines. (Thank you USA – and then you wondered, why the Palestinians were dancing in the streets when 9/11 happened? ) Do I need to cry hoarse and put up pictures of hundreds of children killed, maimed, orphaned and even generally scarred for life by Israel during this invasion of Gaza to remind people that Israel is killing children everyday with impunity while our lives go on, while our children live their innocent lives?

Has humanity sunk so low, and have political considerations become so base that the world chooses not only to allow a genocide to happen right in its heart, but also lends this genocide legitimacy by consistently telling us that the victim is to be held responsible for all his suffering? Have the purveyors of this injustice and this cruelty completely forgotten that there is a higher power who is Almighty? Do they find it absolutely of no value that no civilization in the history of earth has ever ruled forever? That great civilizations before them have come down to being nothing?

Children! They kill children everyday, and the world knows it, sees it, and nods in agreement!

I wish to God that the world goes nuclear – that they go to war, all of these countries which have sat in a circle and egged the mauling bear on as he has attacked the scrawny emaciated frame of  its starved prey thrown at its mercy, bound and gagged. I wish to God – that they fire all of their nuclear war heads at the same time to all over the world, and that this unfair, unjust, cruel and disgusting world, which has allowed Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Kashmir to happen without intervening effectively, comes to an abrupt end.

Ya Allah! Forgive us our sins, and end this world. Please.