We are living in a hypocritical world… Something isn’t right. Let me tell you why.
Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, feels destroyed because supposedly Russian missiles targeted a school. There are 40 dead victims and 140 injured, they say. Innocent kids, they say. Civilians, they say.
By Hiba Kiany
While in Gaza, 34,596 are dead—THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX. Let me translate that for you, Mrs Prime Minister: TRENTA QUATTRO MILA CINQUECENTO NOVANTA SEI, Signora Prime… Even the last two digits of this horrific number are higher than the total number of those dead in Ukraine, and yet… the whole world is mourning 40, not 40K, and 140 injured, not 77,816.
While in Gaza according to the UN, up to 1.9 million people (or nine in ten) across the Gaza Strip are internally displaced, including people who have been repeatedly displaced nine or ten times. That’s 90% of the population!
While in Gaza, and while I am typing these words, kids are starving to death under the helpless watch of their parents. While in Gaza, old women are stripped of the place they hoped to rest their tired bones.
Read the numbers, sirs!
Read and don’t weep because those are Arabs.
On the humanity scale, they come one tiny level above non-speaking creatures…
No war is fair; no war is a happy event. At least not for the victims and the people with some empathy, yet…
Yet we cry more for the blond, blue-eyed kids than for the dark-skinned ones. These are grade-one civilians, whereas Arabs are deemed undeserving of our tears or grief. Stolen lands and broken dreams in Gaza do not count.
We have become so adept at being hypocrites that we even manage to shed warm, unstoppable tears for those like us—those who do not have a cause linked to a dogma or religion, those who drink Spritz and wear bikinis, not Chai and headscarves.
Because if I am religious, the others scare me; they threaten my existence, my beliefs, and my peace of mind. They dress differently, they talk differently, they smell differently, they cook differently. They pray differently.
But you know what?
They die all the same. We all die the same. We all rot the same. And humanity is going to rot in its pool of stinky hypocrisy.
God, the God of all—Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, even atheists—sees, knows, and one day, in each one's eternity, an eternity crowded with smiling dark-skinned kids and wrinkled head-scarved old grannies, we will pay, one way or another. We will pay for our silence, for our hypocrisy, for our lack of empathy and action.
Hell is waiting for all of us - all of us, but not them.
Deuteronomium verse 5…
The numbers are wrong and part of hamas propaganda.
75% of pali supported the pogrom. They started a war and losing it..
1. "At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain." Israelis are burning everything and everyone: no mountains are safe from the hell they are igniting.
2. The numbers are given by the oxfam America
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam%5D
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-how-many-palestinians-has-israels-campaign-killed-2024-05-14/
UN:
https://www.unognewsroom.org/story/en/2172/gaza-death-toll-ohchr-who-14-may-2024#:~:text=In%20Gaza%2C%20as%20more%20Palestinian,indeed%20among%20the%2035%2C000%20dead.
Hamas propaganda you say? Isn't that the preferred weapon of the Israeli government up-to-date? Wasn't the false rumor of 40 beheaded kids what started this whole revenge war?
3. Palestinians did not start a war: Israel have been cancelling Palestinians since 1948. But as you said it well, their propaganda ever since they took over a land -promised to them by Balfour way before WWII- no one dared to point a finger towards a criminal state built over the corpses of the original population.
How about you read something else than Israeli propaganda newspapers, and open your eyes: there is a horrific genocide happening but you just don't want to admit it.
I Pity humanity!
A wake up call that will be muffled by politics and interests and benefits.
They are justified collateral damage!
Talking about hypocrisy!
Indeed. Heart breaking.
You criticize Western citizens of selectively feeling sorry about victims of war. You will be right, but is it different in other parts of the world? Is ‘the’ Russian or ‘the’ Chinese worried about the numerous deaths in Gaza, or, for that matter in Ukraine. It may very well be that ‘the’ Russian doesn’t feel any empathy, leave alone sympathy, for the Ukrainian deaths at all. Is it a matter of skin colour, as you suggest? It may very well be that ‘discriminating’ (or even – as you imply – ‘racist’) citizens in Western countries feel attacked, by proxy, themselves? Indeed, then you do look at victims differently. So you do when you don’t seem to be involved at all, as ‘the’ Chinese will have different – but not necessarily racist - feelings for Ukrainians or Taiwanese citizens.
Living in Europe, and exposed -daily- to the European leaders' absence of reaction to what is happening in Palestine, and then? One attack on a school in Ukraine, and they are all scandalised, all calling Putin a war criminal... while, for almost a year now, 100s of schools, hospitals, kids, women, have been meticulously, coldly, heartlessly erased, yet, none of them had a say on what is happening in Palestine.
There is power, and strings pulled, it is obvious for me. Had I been living in China or Russia and had my buttons been pushed daily by such unbearable hypocrisy, trust me: i would definitely have written the same. No war should be ok, no kids should be dying of hunger, and/or cold, and/or dehydrated. No unarmed man should be shot at, just because he is from a different color, religion, country, beliefs, political party...