I, Bibi and Bees This morning there were these two bees perturbing me over and again. First, I ignored them but when they wont stop hurtling themselves over the breakfast table, of course, to sate their early morning hunger, I couldnt tolerate. I instantly killed them. And also soon forgot about them. Then another bee appeared from nowhere and repeatedly lurched itself towards the food, of course, not to avenge the death of its fellow-bees but to instinctively satisfy its hunger. Again, I ran after it and with some hectic efforts smashed it with a folded leaf of the newspaper that incidentally contained a lot of stories and images the Israeli atrocities being committed against the Gazan Palestinians. Well, after killing the third impertinent bee, I had my breakfast and turned on the Tv to watch my favorite news channels--BBC (perhaps a colonial hangover or having no other choice!). Characteristically, the screen beamed the graphic images of the Palestinians running helter skelter for a shelter from Israeli pounding of artillery and Gunship bombs; the children and their mothers were crying; bodies were being shifted to brimful morgues; people were burying their loved ones with wet eyes. Yet, there was no discomfiture in the air. No one showed any slackening of resolve to fight, or lessening of rage against, the continuing Israeli brutalities and atrocities. Then appeared hideously arrogant Israeli spokesman who triumphantly announced to the media that the Israeli tanks, Gunship Helicopters, Drones, fighter gets, artillery pieces and ground units would relentlessly pursue and smash the Hamas networks, including the mesh of tunnels that connects the Gaza and Egypt, and from which are shipped the missiles and other stuffs into Gaza. Just as a while ago I had suddenly felt irritated, if not threatened, by a couple of bees, the Israeli governments spokesman also sounded very irritated by the fact that a few hundred Hamas fighters were still tenaciously resisting might of the Israeli state, which by implication meant Hamas was resisting Israeli its occupation and its settlerss unstoppable trespassing of Palestinian lands and orchards. Therefore, he declared that thee Hamas was a biggest threat and nuisance to Israeli state and its Jewish people, therefore, Hamas must be crushed at all cost. While watching the news, It occurred to me that the Israeli state and its right-wing war mongers are showing the same hubris, the same aversion to loss of life, and the same indifference to denying the right of life to every living object (let alone, the Palestinians whose lives and lands have been robbed in the largest heist of this cosmos) that I had just shown towards the bees who were also trying to instinctively share a meal for their survival but instead got mercilessly killed by me. The only difference is that bees were killed and thrown away un-mourned and un-avenged. But the Palestinians have never given up, though their fate is no different from the bees at the hands of Israeli Zionists Despite the fact that this is the seventh time Israel has attempted to crush the Palestinians, yet this is the third Intifidah (resistance) launched by them in just 17 years. In the ongoing war against them, so far more than 270 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured, among them kids, women and elderly civilians, as against only six Israeli causalities and a few scratches caused to the walls of some buildings hit by the Hamas thousands of rockets fired deep into Israeli territory and forcing the people to take shelter in the bomb-proof bunkers. Thats all! So since this morning I have had a bad taste in mouth. I remorsefully feel an uneasy affinity with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Natanyaho, alias, Bibi, We both are killers. I killed bees. He is killing humans. Luckily, I may stand absolved for the murder of three living objects, the bees, thanks to the medically-supported culture of killing and absence of any bee rights having been recognized by the local or international law. However, I am astonished and ashamed to find that over and again Israelis get away committing massacres Palestinian civilians, as if they were worse than bees. Why is this wretched spoilt brat of the West above all the law, morality, the so-called conscience of international community,the International Court of Justice, the UN, its Charter on Human Rights and Geneva Conventions on protection non-combatant civilians? I tell you why. Among other reasons, the latest being a favorable government that sits in Egypt in the form of a General, Al-SISI. He is cooperating with Israel by shutting all the possible inlets into Gaza, practically helping Israeli state to turn Gaza into a big open-air prison. Syrian stands desolated by civil war. More than One hundred and seventy thousand people have been killed and the largest number of people since the second world war have become refugees. Libya, another possible bunker, has been turned into a lawless land divided amongst the warlords and tribal legions. Turkey, Pakistan, the Gulf states and even the leaders of Fatah are all either collusive or indifferent to the fate of a tiny Gaza. So what should the hapless inmates of Gaza do? Like they bees, they should be allowed to be killed if they look for food and survival? Should these bees and insects stop striving for their basic human needs --right to life, liberty and dignity? These are the questions that stare in the face of the so-called heirs of 10-thousand years long civilization, those who are the patrons-in-chiefs of the six-decades long brutalization of Palestinians by a state whose very raison detre is nothing but a puerile ideology and a mythic biblical reference!!!! What a shame!!!
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 06:35:16 +0000
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