Language and Legitimacy
Word and Deed
We are into summer. The weather has been beautiful: blue skies, cool breezes, warm sun. Everything outside the world of man is stunning. A broad shimmering ocean, green forests, wispy clouds, red-brown branches, and flowers of all colours form a cloth of dignity over my outraged eyes. They have been burning, watering, wincing nonstop for nearly two straight years as layer after layer after layer of Palestinian life was desecrated and flayed in the broadest daylight for all to see. In the world of man, of which Gaza has become a symbol, our eyes are flies on corpses and our thoughts are maggots, guided simply by photoreceptors since words no longer hold meaning.
Our language is void. Our legitimacy is void. Do people not realize that the bulk of political freedom rests on these two pillars?
Word and deed can be fruitful or barren, depending on our choices in individual and communal leadership. At present, industrial mercenary armies are pillaging the coffers of human goodness, seizing it without our resistance. Perhaps we do not see them because they wear the camouflage of our cultures, faiths, and ethnicities. They clothe themselves in our humanity while robbing us of our civilizations. Their only creed is greed.
Our nations are void. Our hoards of goodness are empty. Our legitimacy as a species has never been so naked.