It's not complicated

It's not complicated.

Over the Christmas break, I saw a tiny infant who had frozen to death, heard the pleas coming from Kamal Adwan Hospital as it dealt with snipers, drones, bombs, and robots delivering explosives, and saw the burning remains of a Press Vehicle containing 5 members of the press. The barbarity and cruelty continue and what truly horrifies me is that these atrocities barely cause a ripple on the surface of the ocean of Western Media. Some days Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria are lucky to make it to page 3. Nowadays Izzy doesn’t even have to bother to make up lies about mass rapes, 40 beheaded babies, or that there were terrorists located in the veins of journalists and down the sewer pipes of hospitals and school playgrounds because the world doesn’t even seem to ask or care.

It seems that they can do whatever they want with full impunity and a frightening number of people, including our governments no longer even bother to pretend to care.

As people turn the page of the paper, scroll down their phones to a puppy video, and post that they are taking a mental health break, I wonder how the people of the Levant have any hope left at all. I also wonder if they will be able to forgive us.

It’s not complicated

It’s not complicated.

It’s simple really.

There are some who

are on a killing spree,

yet nobody is free

until we are all free.

It’s not complicated,

that is of course,

unless,

you want it to be.