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The date is November 6, 2023 at 3:55 pm. The background is a home of an older Palestinian located west of Gaza City. The setting is a group of 6 Nazi fascist Israeli soldiers raiding a home in Gaza.

The narration goes like this:  “stay away, we are going to request the bombing of the top floor.  Go ahead and fire towards the top floor.

“Did you see anyone? Yes, one.  He was waiving his hands like this -showing that he has nothing.  And what did you do? I shot him with 4 bullets. Killing was fantastic.

Did he have anything? Nope, nothing. Respect my man, congratulations.”

“Had we have the artillery we could’ve finished the job easily.

Then these Nazis go back again. They see the old man lying next to the bed, motionless and dead. They fire at him again.

The outcome? The summary execution of Uncle Atta, a 73-year old deaf man who was waiving to these Nazis not to shoot. Outside his home, these Nazi members of the Israel Death Forces (IDF) went into a rampage of executing 50 more innocent civilians.

All this was recorded by a camera of one of these Nazis fascist members of the IDF.

Oh Lord, kumbaya . . .

As I absorb the daily news of war and global devastation, I sing these words to myself — quietly, yes, secretly, lest I ignite instant flash-bang sarcasm from the surrounding world. What next? A flower in a rifle barrel?

Sarcasm spits in the face of idealism — a.k.a., “feelgood-ism” — and life goes on. Any questions? Sure, war is hell and all that, especially when the bad guys wage it, but sitting around the campfire and lamenting musically for global niceness is a sin against our military budget. Don’t be silly. We need to protect ourselves.

‘All we can do for Gaza is just offer our Du’a.” This is an oft-repeated statement by enraged Arabs and Muslims who feel helpless before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. 

 But is it true that only invocations and supplications are possible, as tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being killed and wounded by the Israeli war machine? 

 No. There is much that can be done and, in fact, many people around the world are already doing it.