It happens every four years, like clock work.
Israel starts some massive operation in Gaza and the world collectively turns its back and studies the ceiling intently while whistling a merry tune.
You wanna hear a joke? Arabs.
Being "Arab" is currently nothing more than an ethnicity. Once, the word Arab entailed a unity; a sense of camaraderie and empathy. We were never exactly a cohesive unit, but we came through for each other. In 1967 and 1973, when the going got tough, we stuck together. When it came to war, Egypt and Syria were financially supported by Saudi Arabia and the Arab world enforced the famous oil embargo. Countries as far away from Israel as Libya, Algeria and even Morocco sent what help they could. Gaza was basically part of Egypt, and any aggression there was unthinkable.
Once.
What do we have to show for it today? A fascist government in Egypt which closed the border crossings to Gaza; the only relief Gaza is ever going to get? A Saudi monarchy so engrossed in its financial gains that it doesn't even consider using its considerable political weight to oppose the Israeli genocide in Gaza? A war-torn Syria which is every bit as devastated as Gaza? I would mention Iraq if it bore any semblance to a country, and not a US oil faucet.
Keep your oil money, Saudi Arabia, and your non-existent, begrudged aid, Egypt. But their blood is on your hands.
Let's all "condemn" the actions on social media and share the pictures on Facebook, idiotically thinking that it makes any sort of difference. Guess what? That blood-boiling Facebook status you spent an hour writing? It's not gonna feed a displaced, starving family in Gaza or Syria. That picture you shared? It's not gonna shoot down that Israeli jet which is raining fire and death upon women and children and unarmed men... and neither will this blog post. Let's all bask in the glow of our ignorance and indifference, conveniently choosing to ignore that our governments are soul-less, heartless parasites leeching off our hard work and using our money to line their pockets and shrugging off their pleas for help. And let's not forget the US government; the champions of democracy and human rights. Let's spend $5 billion a year to buy top notch military equipment for Israel to bomb women and children and Egypt to crush protesters and gun down political activists.
When the Egyptian media phrases it like "Israel is targeting "terrorists" in Gaza", you know that the cause is well and truly lost. When the brainwashed masses lack even the slightest degree of passive empathy for Palestinians and claim that "Hamas the terrorist organization" had it coming, you back away slowly and completely disassociate yourself from this joke of a country and look for some other part of the world where you can live without having blood on your hands from just being a part of this charade.
When Egypt, once the shield of the Arab world, becomes an accessory to the Israeli crimes in Gaza by cutting off humanitarian aid and relief, you lose the last dregs of nationalism and loyalty you had left over from the 2011 revolution when you actually let yourself believe that things were ever going to change. I'm done, well and truly done. I wash my hands of Egypt and the Arab world under the current conditions.
May God have mercy on Gaza... that's the only mercy they're ever going to get.
Israel starts some massive operation in Gaza and the world collectively turns its back and studies the ceiling intently while whistling a merry tune.
You wanna hear a joke? Arabs.
Being "Arab" is currently nothing more than an ethnicity. Once, the word Arab entailed a unity; a sense of camaraderie and empathy. We were never exactly a cohesive unit, but we came through for each other. In 1967 and 1973, when the going got tough, we stuck together. When it came to war, Egypt and Syria were financially supported by Saudi Arabia and the Arab world enforced the famous oil embargo. Countries as far away from Israel as Libya, Algeria and even Morocco sent what help they could. Gaza was basically part of Egypt, and any aggression there was unthinkable.
Once.
What do we have to show for it today? A fascist government in Egypt which closed the border crossings to Gaza; the only relief Gaza is ever going to get? A Saudi monarchy so engrossed in its financial gains that it doesn't even consider using its considerable political weight to oppose the Israeli genocide in Gaza? A war-torn Syria which is every bit as devastated as Gaza? I would mention Iraq if it bore any semblance to a country, and not a US oil faucet.
Keep your oil money, Saudi Arabia, and your non-existent, begrudged aid, Egypt. But their blood is on your hands.
Let's all "condemn" the actions on social media and share the pictures on Facebook, idiotically thinking that it makes any sort of difference. Guess what? That blood-boiling Facebook status you spent an hour writing? It's not gonna feed a displaced, starving family in Gaza or Syria. That picture you shared? It's not gonna shoot down that Israeli jet which is raining fire and death upon women and children and unarmed men... and neither will this blog post. Let's all bask in the glow of our ignorance and indifference, conveniently choosing to ignore that our governments are soul-less, heartless parasites leeching off our hard work and using our money to line their pockets and shrugging off their pleas for help. And let's not forget the US government; the champions of democracy and human rights. Let's spend $5 billion a year to buy top notch military equipment for Israel to bomb women and children and Egypt to crush protesters and gun down political activists.
When the Egyptian media phrases it like "Israel is targeting "terrorists" in Gaza", you know that the cause is well and truly lost. When the brainwashed masses lack even the slightest degree of passive empathy for Palestinians and claim that "Hamas the terrorist organization" had it coming, you back away slowly and completely disassociate yourself from this joke of a country and look for some other part of the world where you can live without having blood on your hands from just being a part of this charade.
When Egypt, once the shield of the Arab world, becomes an accessory to the Israeli crimes in Gaza by cutting off humanitarian aid and relief, you lose the last dregs of nationalism and loyalty you had left over from the 2011 revolution when you actually let yourself believe that things were ever going to change. I'm done, well and truly done. I wash my hands of Egypt and the Arab world under the current conditions.
May God have mercy on Gaza... that's the only mercy they're ever going to get.
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