The age-old Palestinian-fear (of the Israeli thirst)

For a very long time, I believe since early childhood; since the time I gained my sense of self, got aware of the "me" in my body, the "me" in my soul; also, certainly on account of being born into an Arab, Moslem, Palestinian family; I've always been carrying this nightmarish thought within me, this gut feeling, this deep anguish, this profound fear that as and when, the whole world falls into deep slumber, or goes into indefinite hibernation, which in itself is not that far-fetched for all to see. Within the realms of my nightmare, the Israeli demons use the presented golden-opportunity to gang-up on the hapless Palestinian populace and swiftly, speedily, expeditiously cut them all down (once and for all of eternity).

The Israeli oppressors have been eagerly longing for the said golden-opportunity - this unquenching thirst for Palestinian blood has been "flaming" in their bellies for a very long time, all along. All of a sudden, I'm woken up by the sounds of Israeli bombardment being carried out from the skies above our roofless heads; woken up, jolted up, thrust onto my still working feet (unbelievably so, given all the near misses from Israeli attacks) to make a run for it, to escape attacks directed onto a defenceless, physically broken down, very weakened, distraught people, and distraught self - though mentally a very resilient self, and resilient people and populace. By way of people and populace, that is, who-so-ever is "still" alive to witness the unending slaughter in our Gaza.

So, I'm woken-up to come to the realization that it was never ever, an unfounded fear, or some baseless suspicion; quite to the contrary, it was unambiguously true since the birth of Israel that the Palestinian nation, not only has to be subdued, or dominated, or kept a lid on, rather it has to be completely decimated. And one is witnessing the nightmare unfold, transpire into reality. We witness mass slaughter while the world pretends to sleep, play it down, not notice, look the other way, as if it's more fiction, minimum reality, if any. Quite to the contrary, the reality is a zillion times worse than even the worst of one's nightmares, a zillion times worse than what were the most dreaded of Palestinian fears all along.

This always suppressed Palestinian-fear, this foolish self-denial of the core Israeli-objective has resulted in so many Palestinians who have now paid with their own blood, by way of losing their lives. Self-denial of Israeli intentions, and our foolish belief that the world-at-large, will surely come to our aid in face of Israeli aggression. A double whammy, paid for in Palestinian blood, so many innocent lives lost. Rivers of Palestinian blood flowing across the length and breadth of Gaza because of our folly.

The world not only seems to sleep, more to the point, from Palestinian eyes, is seemingly a full accomplice of Israel.

Azhaar Amayreh

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