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The Nothingness of a War Consciousness
The leaders of the world must assert common humanity and create a new path, a new map which is fair to all, and establish a new, peaceful coexistence which recognizes the inner equality of all
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We are now being presented, several times a day, with media examples of the effect of extreme violence visited on the captive people of Gaza. The images are heartbreaking. The reality unbearable.
Bodies of Palestinian families strewn like refuse along a road that they had trekked as a path to safety.
A car turns around at a checkpoint in Gaza, its occupants are hit with a shot from behind, from a tank and everything, the car and its occupants, disappear in a puff.
A Palestinian journalist mourns his colleague, who only a half hour earlier, was reporting on air. After work, he went home, a bomb hit, killing him and his 11-member family.
The video of his ruined house shows several children's party dresses which lie amidst the rubble.
The human family is in the rubble.
An ambulance convoy, filled with injured Gazans, under the supervision of medical
authorities, headed to the Rafah border crossing, was struck by the Israeli air force with the stated suspicion that the vehicle, which was headed away from the battle, carried Hamas fighters.
War reduces all nothingness.
It is as if 10,000 Palestinians and more had never existed. But they did, just as the 1,400 Israelis killed on October 7thexisted. They had birthdates, names, fragile exchanges of human emotion, of love of family, private moments in everyday life which confirmed their existence. Obliterated. Nothingness.
Whatever media we consume, we see only a fraction of the massive display of inhumanity occurring in Gaza, the reduction of living, breathing, feeling people to objects. This is heartless. This is soulless. This reduces all of existence to the nothingness of smoke, human smoke.
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The violence it is calculated. It is rooted in power politics, in racism, in apartheid, in twisted history, opportunism disguised as vengeance, statecraft as slaughter.
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