The world has probably never witnessed such blatant willful blindness. For a year and eight months now, the major powers have allowed one of the deadliest massacres ever to take place in the Middle East. Tergiversations, euphemisms, pitiful controversies about the terminology to be used, timid appeals to reason...
Today, a semblance of “awakening” seems to be taking shape, with the recent European threats against the Israeli regime (re-examination of the association agreement with the EU, suspension of negotiations on the FTA with the UK...). A belated awakening, but better late than never. Even if, for some, reactions remain too “restrained” in the face of the horrors committed.
Palestinian victims continue to fall daily, particularly among children, women, and the most vulnerable, paying the price of the international “community’s” immobility for almost two years. For Palestinians, the social media have been transformed into obituaries. Parents, children, brothers and sisters, cousins... disappear one after the other, leaving behind them souls tortured by immeasurable grief, and the rage of powerlessness in the face of injustice and fear of tomorrow. Not to mention hunger, thirst, disease, and chaos.
Enough of moralistic lectures and speeches dividing the world into two clans, the bad guys and the good guys, civilization and barbarism... Because certain facts clearly show that sometimes the bad guys aren’t who we think they are, and neither are the good guys. Justice, equity, and humanity have no place in the vocabulary of geopolitics. Only interests and win-win alliances count. No respite for the innocents, who will continue to suffer as long as they present no interest or threat...
