One wonders what sleeping potions and concoctions are given to the political rulers, so that they can sleep well and not sit all too perturbed seeing the human killings! Can they be called leaders? by Humra Quraishi
I’m curious and also keen to know from the so-called ‘sleep experts’, what sleeping potions and lotions and pills and concoctions and medicines are given to the political rulers, so that they can sleep well and not sit all too perturbed seeing the human killings! Nah, I wouldn’t call these men ‘leaders’ as they are not leading us to anywhere near survival! They are all too blatantly political, hopping from one summit to the next, in their best attires, with those frills all too intact. The in-between gaps fitted with speeches and more of those fairy tale promises! Far, far away from any of the realities as they do not take the trouble of visiting any of the troubled war torn zones or countries.
If one were to focus on the Israeli forces targeting Lebanon, it gets far too obvious that killings and violence are only worsening, going beyond the Palestine borders. Last fortnight, many were killed and many more were wounded as explosions went off in Beirut and in several other parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices, walkie-talkies and even solar equipment were targeted a day after hundreds of pagers blew up.
As this new form of warfare gets unleashed by the Israeli forces, the political web and military might seemingly gaining ground, unsettling hundreds of innocents not just in the West Bank and Middle East but far beyond.
Bound to carry huge tragedies. And bigger offshoots. There is, of course, the refugee crisis which has been spilling over to Europe. This crisis is an extended offshoot of the internal strife and civil war instigated by the vested interests of the bigger nations!
We sit all too subdued and meek and mute, wondering: Who is masterminding these killings? Who is behind these organized bombardments? Who are the behind-the-scenes destroyers? Why are the governments and world leaders not speaking out? We don’t even scream or shriek in horror to end this mess, even when news reports come in, day after day, of human disasters!
We are worried about the consequences of speaking out! Even as the civilian population sits terrorized, we sit all too shut. State-fed inputs to terrorism continue to hold sway. No, we are not even inclined to go beyond, and question and query.
