The Reality

By: Soumaya Ghannoshi (Writer and Researcher)

Many years ago, as a young student I was here, marching with tens of thousands when they bombed Afghanistan, they bombed Iraq, they bombed Lebanon, and today here we are again. The issues changed. The killers did not. The goal did not – Dominate, divide, destroy! In 2003, they filled the air with talk of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. They flattened Baghdad, tore its people apart, and called it liberation. A million Iraqis dead. Then they shrugged and said, oh, it was a lie. And behind the lie, Netanyahu, already sharpening the blade for the next war. Then, it was chemical weapons. Today, it is nuclear weapons. Back then, Saddam was the demon. Today, it is the Iranian regime. For three decades, Netanyahu has talked and cried, Iran is months away from a nuclear bomb. 30 years of warmongering, all to distract from the real nuclear power in the region, the only one. Who's that? Israel! 80 nuclear warheads, maybe more. No inspections, no oversight. No consequences. And what does this nuclear power do? It commits genocide in Gaza. It starves people. It uses aid as a killing trap. Guns people down, starving, exhausted, and scrambling for some flour. It bombs Syria. It invades Lebanon. It bombs Yemen. It bombs Iran. Is this a stage or an attack zone? Is Israel a (illegal) country or a mad dog? It has no humanity, no shame. For it the Middle East has no history, we memories, no human beings. Only oil and money!  So today, we say to the warmongers, enough of your lies. Enough of your greed. Enough is enough. We, the people of the world, Muslims, Jews, Christians, beleaguered, we say we don't want your ugly, cruel world of endless wars, limitless destruction, rivers of blood, trampling on nations. We want a different world, a world of justice, a world of freedom, a world of human dignity.       (Source @ MIDDLE-EAST-EYE)