When Bambi was about 8 year-old, growing up in the middle of civil war in the so-called former “East Beirut“, the shelling hit a nearby school. Her dear cousin was badly injured among many other young friends. Thank Goodness he survived. His only peer who died happened to be Muslim, ironically…. with a bomb coming from the former “West side of Beirut“, predominantly (but not only) Muslim. Do you see the irony?
The tragic story shared above is not surprising given that bombs (or violence) do not differentiate between people’s characteristics such as ethnolinguistic background, age, sex/gender, religion, sexual orientation, height, weight, political affiliation, etc. The latter was one of Bambi’s lessons from the school of life, especially in times of armed conflicts.
However, the Mollahs of Iran, blinded by hate or excited by their nuclear adventure, do not seem to see the irony of their escalating action of yesterday (about 200 ballistic missiles targeting Israel), which resulted in the death of a Palestinian man. May his memory be eternal (https://tinyurl.com/3kaa72vy).
In the same vein, the second irony is Hamas that “praises ‘heroic’ missile attacks launched by Iran” (https://tinyurl.com/ycaswhba) and who cares about the poor Gazan who lost his life?
When will the bloody nightmare of revenge and hate end in the Middle East? When will we will find a solution to this absurd conflict that is burning Lebanon, so peace can finally prevail there and across all the nations? And what about compassion, especially in “spiritual men”?
