"It's like God has Abandoned Us.." - Instablogs
"It's like God has Abandoned Us.."
Sarah , Cairo: Jan 20 2009
Made Popular Jan 21 2009
Egypt :

I have silently watched, in horror, all that is going on around us. I have closely followed the death tolls that rose insistingly, I have read stories of families losing their lives while walking outdoors to get water, I have seen videos of corpses like they never had soul, I have watched...in silence, because nothing I can do would ever make a difference.

I wouldn’t write about it either, it felt insulting, feeble, it didn’t matter to me to express my thoughts or opinions, I’m sure the people in gaza aren’t sitting there and thinking gee, thanks for blogging about this it really helps. I have watched the entire world react and I had no reaction of my own, but to sit quietly and watch, and then, as cowardly as I admit it was, I would flip the channel, because I couldn’t deal with any of it.

Nothing changed anything. No amount of world demonstrations or government boycotts or UN & MAL summits mattered. No amount of pressure, economic or diplomatic or political mattered. It was all in vain and I knew it, and that’s why I didn’t say anything, because it didn’t matter to me to have an opinion, I just watched in horror as this massacre went down in history, as the lives and families turned into mere statistics and collateral damage. Actually, they were collateral damage all along, and that’s why I said nothing.

How do I feel about Egypt’s stance on all this? I honestly do not know, isn’t it all a bunch of bullshit anyway? I mean who the hell cares what Egypt is doing about it, nothing would have CHANGED. Egypt was being a little bitch, and it was the truth of the matter that this was the only thing it could do, because that was how fragile it’s foreign policy was. Sold herself too cheap, it wasn’t sexy anymore!

Is it over? Well does it matter anymore? I mean after some point, it’s all pretty much the same, bomb them, kill them, slaughter them, starve them, trap them, let them go, it’s done! How will these people rebuild their homes? Their families or what’s left of them, their pride, their love, their souls, their world, or their faith?

I know it was war, though disproportional and horrifying, it was war. People die in wars, countries go to waste and the media goes insane. I know this isn’t a one-of-a-kind situation, I know similar things happened before, but perhaps because I’m so aware of witnessing it all, that it is so hard to absorb.

I feel embarrassed about complaining about anything now. Or writing about anything, or just even reading about anything because everything in comparison is just so Futile...

Has God abandoned them? It feels like he has, and as I hold on as much as I can to my faith, I am embarrassed to pray...God is Mercy, God is Love...and most of all God is Justice.


And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away...

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Oscar
Oaxaca, Mexico
Sarah,
I understand your feelings on multiple levels. I live in a country where the national death toll is neatly divided by state and type of execution (torture/mutilation/decapitation), male, female, child:, civilian or non civilian and then regrouped to display daily on every newspaper.

I have watched it rise month after month, year after year watching national and international medias spit out the end year tally, statistics, and comparisons like some form of Human Stock exchange; the only difference is, we only have LOSSES: January: 36 decapitations, 59 executions Juarez, 27 Tijuana, etc, etc: WAR IS SICK AND HEARTLESS, MEDIA seems DEMENTED AND TWISTED.

With Gaza, I have simply run.. I turn the page in the newspaper. At first, I tried to understand, but really what is there to understand..I began avoiding IB like the plague..Navigation IB beacame similar to that of walking thru landmines; tip toe carefully in hopes of clearing the area in one piece.

Death, bombs, innocent souls snuffed in an instant..Can anyone legitimatly create JUST meaning of it? Again, death is death. Killing is killing..WAR IS WAR.. No amount of media spin, PRO or CON can erase the facts; the lives, the blood, the pain, TRAGEDY, the sorrow, INNOCENCE LOST, DESTROYED..

While I am not very religious (The catholic church and I parted ways years ago), I still hold my faith..I believe in God, and cannot fathom Him allowing lives to be taken in senseless vain; ANYWHERE, and especially not in war..Everything, eventually, has a reason....


I pray for the families destroyed, the children orphaned..No amount of prayers can heal the pain in Gaza, but I pray, one day, for Peace for each and everyone.
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Maybe if enough people prayed...I don’t know.
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Oscar
Oaxaca, Mexico
Sarah:

A lone voice, is barely a whisper in this world..Enough whispers, uniting, cannot be silenced, and never ignored..

Your feelings are true, undeniable, raw..never feel ashamed. never stop ”whispering”, there will ALWAYS be someone close enough to hear you...Maybe it’s NOT prayers Gaza needs, but enough whispers in the world to be heard, creating AWARENESS, shining lights, offering truths.
(Global Perspectives)
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Shahwar K
kolkata, India
”And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away...”

AMEEN to that and much more Sarah...

but I can only just dream, or hope for an Utopia to emerge!

all this is now happening for just too long...
all this is now distorting life a bit too much...

I know all this was here all the while
but it’s just that I hope, I wish I hadn’t been here to see all this hatred...

THE WORLD IS HATE
HATE IS WORLD
YUP that’s what getting it going...

pessimistic?

you tell me!

good to see your post after a long time!
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Thank you shahwar, I understand your dark outlook on things, I can’t blame you, anything else would be an active denial of the reality of what’s going on around us.
The only utopia right now sounds as fictional as..well..other things
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Shahwar K
kolkata, India
very rightly said Sarah!

and you know what’s worse, in such difficult times, when a little understanding would soothe the burning sores, manipulators ruling the world are trying their hardest best to widen the gaps...!

it’s misery now as ever!
(Global Perspectives)
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Sarah, reading ur post filled my eyes with tears... The same tears that I have been fighting all day long!!!

Don’t be embarrassed honey, I am sure as u said, people of Gaza don’t care about what we write here, but if we could get one person to see what’s really happening there then that would be good... and this is why we write. so write on... It might not be much... but it is certainly SOMETHING!!!

and... yes... as Oscar said: Eventually... Everything has a reason...
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