I thought what can I have to say… everything has been said by someone else… all the emotions… all the facts… all the rationales…
But as I was flipping through my old images… I came across this photo I took two years ago.
This photo is of a demonstration I attended in Edinburgh against the Israeli offensive over south of Lebanon in July 2006… if you look at the slogans… you just realize they can simply and sadly apply to the situation now…
That made me reflect upon the long chains of fights, protests, appeals that have been happening around…
60 years ago the war on Palestine started, and then came Lebanon… Afghanistan, Iraq… and we all have speculations over who is next…
What is the problem? And what is the solution?
I kept on thinking about that… read a couple of blog entries, war analysis … and so on… until this idea came to my mind…
The reason behind this… is not the Grand Conspiracy, nor the Zionist Agenda, nor the Lust for Oil…
The real reason of this… is us… but what exactly in us?
At first us meant to me; Arabs and Muslims… but the more I thought about it… the more I believed us are all the human beings…
I came to realize that it is our inability to think… there has always been a restriction over our abilities to think, limitation over what we can think and discuss and what we can't…
We have been brought up to condemn someone else… to label people and categorize them and deal with them according to that…
Liberals/ Conservatives, Materialists/ Spiritualists, Capitalists/ Socialists, Atheists/ Believers,….
I think that our solution is as simple as starting to think of the unthinkable…
What we have to do now… each and everyone of us… to help Gaza, to help Iraq, to help ourselves is to think….
After mumbling your prayers, after lighting a candle, after done with shouting in a protest, after giving away a little of your money and after all that… I wish if each one of you would go home and think of the unthinkable…
If you are an atheist think what if the spiritualist were right, if you are a spiritualist think what if the atheists were right….
If you are pro-Fateh think of those pro-Hamas… and vice versa…
Whatever you are… what ever ideology you embrace… think of the one thing you never permitted your self to think of… think of the other side… think of the ones you assume you fight… think what do they have that make sense… study them… learn and think from an enthusiast stand not an opponent stand…
Think of what you labeled as wrong… think freely with no restrictions… with no fear…
What made human a human is his ability to think…
Give yourself this back … in the most absolute way you can…
Maybe then we can be equal humans again…
Maybe then people in Gaza will be spared… and allowed to live once again…
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