The world is a cycle - archaic, I know, but my nondescript mind cannot conjure up a more elaborate saying - and I cannot over estimate the significance of the saying's relevance recently.
Today, we celebrate the centinary of the First World War. Well, not really, because God knows when the malice aforethought was actually initialized. It is technically a hundred years to the day Britain entered the war and that is really what matters. It was the fateful day one Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated in Sarajevo that drove Britain to expedite the mammoth disaster.
And on this day, when all and sundry in the golden era imagined that there would be unequivocal world peace, it is ruefully the reprehensible paradox. Today, the world has wiped the floor with the efforts of our predecessors and obliterated every fruit the end of world wars bore.
After the Israel-Gaza ceasefire was declared a few days ago, hundreds of civillians were confirmed dead as a result of an Israeli shell fired at the entrance of Rafah (a United Nations refugee site) where ironically, Palestinians were supposed to be safe. Hence today, when a century ago (literally) a war officially started, another epoch of annihilation has begun.
It would be extremely myopic to insinuate that the Israeli tyranny started with the #Pray4Gaza movement but just like the first world war, today is its commemoration.
Whereas Israel was represented in the media by political and millitary bigwigs, the Gaza spokesperson was actually a citizen. Actually, scratch that, Gaza has no citizens but refugees...for only citizens can afford to sleep with both their eyes shut and hope to see sunrise. Atef Abu Saif has been a refugee all for more than four decades, all his life really.
While the Zionist representatives spoke in retribute to "terrorists" and shifted the blame to the Hamas for putting its civillians in the line of fire as well as other nitty gritties only they know about, the Gaza representative did not mince words at all. He just wanted it to stop. He neither cared who fired what nor who instigated what, he just wanted the killing of innocent civillians to stop.
And in poetic fashion came the Second World War, the one so woefully remembered for Adolf Hitler, the man who also did not mince words and called it as he so thought it. He categorically exemplified the worst kind of dictatorship by persecuting Blacks and Jews who he thought were inferior to his kind.
Now, Israel is a nation widely populated by Jews who must be dreading the irony of being in the antagonistic camp (the rational ones at least) which now holds all the ammunition against a vulnerable and frail adversary. However, they not only lack the decency to fight like soldiers but also lie about the reasons they are endlessly killing innocents.
The highly audacious Hitler may not have provided reprieve to the Jews he so unflatteringly called the Y-word (which I shan't disclose for purposes of sensitivity) but it did provide a girth for the neutrals. The cowards however prefer to spread lies and confuse the inevitable wrath of the masses.
Israel could perhaps learn a thing or two from Hitler and his experiences. He fondly recalled the most noble of wariors by the name Pte Tandey. Tandey was British soldier in the First World War in 1918. He had tempered justice with mercy, refusing to kill unarmed, injured men in cold blood; one of these men being (you guessed it)... Adolf Hitler. And this was the reason this was a war, unlike the war crimes in Gaza, this was a battle by noble men who deserve to be in the echolon of war heroes. The Israeli millitary though would make excellent hearse drivers (with all due respect to the noble profession ofcourse).
For Pte Tandey was a wise man who knew that Hitler (read Germany) would ultimately shoot himself in the foot. As for Israel doing the same unsavoury acts to themselves, I wouldn't hold my breath. As I stated earlier, the world is a cycle.
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