The so-called International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths “raises awareness about disaster deaths that never should occur”. The “focus” of this awareness “includes floods that overwhelm unprepared towns, heatwaves without early warnings, and road accidents on unsafe routes” (https://tinyurl.com/2z5pnuha).
Interesting, but what about avoidable deaths due to terrorism, armed conflicts, and wars? How can we raise awareness about how human-made disaster deaths kill innocent people, destroy lives as well as economies, and tear apart families and their countries?
How do we deal with destructive ideologies that seem incompatible with the will to live and to solve state and inter-state conflicts without radicalism? Is the harsh aggression, or aggressive unmeasured response, a viable and wise approach to get rid of this apparently unsolvable problem—which involves a suicidal, closed mindset. This is sadly the Lebanese tragedy again and again. None of the two fighting entities, Hezbollah and Israel, seem to want to stop the absurd insanity. Yes, Hezbollah dragged Lebanon into a war it did not want or can afford. Yes, Israel seems determined to do what Lebanon would have ideally done itself to disarm this Iran-backed Lebanese militia. Clearly, Lebanon does not seem to be able to do it still, even with a weakened Hezbollah. So what is the solution to this existential problem? How will it end in the end… and would it?
So many questions that are beyond the scope of this post and the spirit of this blog, which is based on aspirations for peace, reason, and love.
Related to love, and since tomorrow is “National Day of Plant a Flower”, Bambi who is powerless like the innocent people of her birth country—as well as those residing in its neighbouring and more distant countries— can only symbolically keep planting flowers of peace, along with seeds of love, on her blog. These flowers are meant for each one of you, dear readers. May we remain grounded in those nerve-wracking times. May we remain connected to our humanity despite mixed feelings of despair, anger, sadness, hope for end of the nightmare, and dream of brighter days.
