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GOD, UNLEASHED

Posted on | January 10, 2009 by imam | No Comments

We all want to believe that deep inside, people are decent. This applies to the people of Israel, naturally. So everytime we see the Israeli cabinet on the television screen, in their casual wear and plaid shirts, almost like our neighbors next door, we sympathize. Then we begin to wonder how these ordinary looking middle-aged men (and lately a woman) turn into compulsive liars when they start uttering words like ‘security’ or ‘war against terror’ and the like, all hollowed out courtesy of the civilized world.

What makes these people function with apparent conviction that they are doing the right thing when they unleash hell on a totally helpless people—mothers, fathers, children and grandchildren? What do they think when they watch the bodies of children piling up in front of the Gaza hospital, on the same television screen? How do they compare to the Muslim fanatic taking an oath for revenge, swearing to god that he will blow himself up in the middle of crowds? How do they justify their decisions every time, when it is obvious that it will lead to a thousand more deaths? What type of a nation have they evolved into, in an extreme paranoia of security and survival? And in turn, once more, how do they compare to other vicious regimes of the Middle East, totally irrational in the pains they inflict? Is this the promised land for the peoples of the region, drenched in blood throughout history? Which of their gods approve of such carnage? Even Romans were more restrained when they set up spectacles of bloodbath, two thousand years ago, the same place; their gods more modest in want of blood spilled…

We are familiar because we are accustomed to hearing many lies from the various fractions of the Turkish state, we are used to see the police or the military unleash their unrestraint power on the people, and we are used to seeing the baseless justification of horrific acts in the name of protection, security, unity, etc… However we know that something is more horrifying when the majority shares the same sentiments with the repressive apparatus, when people subsumed by the all-encompassing war machine, when absolute violence is infused to somewhere more deep than surfaces, in a way proven with the Israeli government’s ‘approval rates’. How are we going to get rid of the cruelty penetrated to the very fabric of society, exercised by men and women who were militarized in very early ages. It seems now that it will be hard to dislocate, like cancer, spread out to every cell, killing inside out, the whole society permanently lost, the community unrecoverable.

History tells us that we have to be aware when a violence is covered with the ‘civilized’ packaging, when it is portrayed with proper American accents, when it looks somewhat familiar like uncle Sam, or aunt Samantha, when it is rationalized at every stage, justified with accurate law terminology, engaged with the tactics so that untrained, underpowered destined to play the never ending war game. A society forced to lose and they want to play again…

It is obvious that the repressive Islamist Palestinian authority’s priority is not to provide civic infrastructure, schools, universities, hospitals to its people who are left dependent on never sufficient foreign humanitarian aid. Palestinians without a salient strategy for future, with no way out, totally encircled with brutal war machine, have to endlessly deal with the corruption inside out… constantly yelling, without any hope, unable to develop any tactics, totally subsumed to the discourses and agendas set by the Islamist and Jewish radicalisms. The Jewish state together with their Islamist counterparts enjoy the bloodshed most as they justify their existence through the continuous war, keeping high alert conditions intact. That is why those Islamist Arabs never lose the war even though they are constantly killed in their own land! That is why Israel never wins even though it can control the whole territory!

We require a deeper ethical understanding of human condition, we need to help our comrades in Israel and in Palestine to strategize a future, developing salient tactics against the horrifying enemies living next door dressed like, talk like family…

xurban_collective
january 2009

Category: General

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