It's been days i am haunted with what is happening in
Palestine lately... Being Lebanese, I can relate to the Palestinian conflict
more than any other conflict in the World.
Not only for cultural and Humanitarian reasons, but also for
security and political reasons. We all know that on top of all our internal
problems, Lebanese have also to deal with Palestinians, Syrians, Iranians… and
sometimes, it’s just TOO MUCH.
So no need to say that i am deeply confused...
All those videos and pictures of children dying or begging
not to die
All those social media links circulating about the Israeli
unbearable cruelty
And then all those European and US politicians claiming very
bluntly that “ Israel being attacked by HAMAS “dangerous” weapons has the right
to defend its territory” but should not attack civilians”…. Please define
civilians!
Then you have all the tweets in support of Palestine, that
celebrities end up deleting
And all the journalists displaced because of their
“subjectivity” in this “war” coverage
Facing all the above stated injustice, There is a big WHY
that needs to be answered.
Let’s face it: our supportive social media statuses will not
change a thing…
Furthermore, you can be sure that same people reading them
and the same people sharing them… means: THE WORLD DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN…
Now back to the WHY… I think I might have an answer:
It’s because we are TRAPPED… We ARABS are TRAPPED…. In our
own STUPIDITY.
Those ISRAELI CRIMINALS have a very powerful weapon that
goes beyond military power: they have HUMAN AND BRAIN POWER.
WHEN THEY KILL… they do it intelligently… they develop
science, they create software’s, they manipulate media, they dress well, they
look good, they eat properly… so
that their crimes look “sophisticated”… so sophisticated that… the world ends
up more impressed rather than angry with what they do.
Now back to us ARABS, what do we do as victims?
We shout, we yell, we mourn, we whine, we throw “7ijara”, we
teach our children not be afraid to die ( because dying is “Shahada”), we replace
our destructed homes with eternal refugee tents, we beg and let beards grow, and we
call barbarism "courage"… Instead of growing scientifically we grow “suicidal”…
we use human bodies as shells…. We let young men believe that instead of loving
their neighbour (the girl next door), they’d better save their youth to some 70
“7ourya” in some indecent heaven…
In times of “image manipulation”, we just do not look good…
The Palestinian kids that are being cruelly killed, on a
daily basis, are just esthetically
not beautiful enough…
Those veiled women, crying their children wearing unsexy
clothes and non- matching fabrics are just not the right cast for the
Palestinian cause…for the Arabs cause... for the Muslims cause...
It’s cruel, it’s sad, it’s unfair, it’s inhuman, it’s politically incorrect to say that… but
it still is the way it is…
My message: THEY WILL NOT BACK OFF. WE WILL HAVE TO CHANGE!
THEY MADE A MYTH OUT OF THEIR TRAGEDY.
WE MADE A MESS OUT OF OURS!
