Middle East: Wouldn’t it be more beautiful if we could see the two street movements, in Europe and around the world, calling for justice, united together?

Bambi is crazy busy working today. She just took the time to read the news quickly now during a fast break.

Thanks to the Lebanese L’Orient Le Jour, she learned that Amsterdam streets were filled with a huge demonstration calling for support for the Palestinians (https://tinyurl.com/227ync7f). At the same time, she read that “thousands protested in Paris for the release of Hamas hostages” (https://tinyurl.com/3juyk4pz). Bravo for both demonstrations showing humanity and support for the innocent victims of this endless world’s conflict.

However, it is Bambi’s dream to one day see people walking together, asking for peace and justice for all the victims combined: the traumatized Gazans (Palestinians), suffering beyond imagination, and the traumatized hostages and their families who have been suffering, beyond imagination, since the 7th of October 2023, along with the still speechless innocent Israeli population. Why should one call for justice in one demonstration exclude, and at times be hostile, to the other call for justice in the other demonstration? Why can’t people walk hand in hand, putting pressure on everyone involved in this tragic human fiasco, asking them all to STOP the violence?

No to senseless terror and absurd wars. Yes for reason, kindness, peace, healing, and forgiveness. So one day love can triumph not just on the ground in the Middle East, but also in our hearts and behaviour, wherever we are and whomever we are. May “all the children of all the countries“, just like in the beautiful song of Mr. Enrico Macias (performed below in French and Arabic by Lebanese kids), be allowed to play and grow up in safety, harmony, affection, and peace.