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Ponder this: Do you genuinely believe that the monstrous dehumanization, the industrial-scale murder of innocents, the systematic torture, the mass imprisonment and rape of an entire population, the calculated policies of famine and disease proliferation, the concerted campaign to erase these victims from the world's media and consciousness - do you really think this state-sanctioned machination of genocidal horrors being visited upon the Palestinian people will simply stop in Palestine?
It is dangerously naïve to cling to the idea that allowing such unfathomable crimes against humanity to occur completely unchecked, live-streamed for the world's morbid entertainment, will not inevitably unleash tidal waves of unimaginable cruelty onto all of us.
If the architects of these atrocities - the Israeli regime, the American military-industrial machine, the European ruling classes, the global corporate/political plutocracy and their legions of abettors - are permitted to emerge entirely unscathed from this bonfire of human civilization, you are fooling yourself if you don't think the same pitiless dark forces will soon come for you and yours as well. The people of Gaza do not suffer in isolation. By abandoning their cause, you merely delay the inevitable threat encircling us all.
The moral and ethical bubbles that presently insulate our comfortable societies from this harrowing reality are lamentably fragile constructs. If we willfully persist in averting our gaze, if we choose the path of least resistance and cling to our bubbles, we only embolden the harbingers of atrocity to infiltrate our own communities. They have already begun their infiltration, beating up students and locking up journalists - the opening salvo in their campaign to normalize such injustice on our soil. For it is precisely the silence of the good people, the abject failure to confront evil unflinchingly, that beckons it through the door.
The choice is yours - to awaken from this sleepwalk into oblivion, or slumber into the abyss encroaching from the horizon. Because if the people of Gaza must suffer alone, we have doomed ourselves to the most horrible future imaginable.
Now listen to her:
- Karim
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