What a powerful, moving testimony - and although it may seem wholly strange to use this word, even beautiful.
What Zahra wrote in this childhood memory is so devastatingly true today: "I was a four- or five-year-old girl, about 22 years ago, sitting next to my father while the television was showing images of children in Gaza, images that I later realized have never stopped, we just sometimes look away from them so we can live."
Solidarity is so vital but so complex: seeing but looking away is part of it.
Dear Naghmeh, there are no beaches in Switzerland, (maybe on the lake Leman..) but there are plenty in Italy. A beach is a state of mind, a place where there is no danger, no war, no fear. When all this evil will end, please come to the beach in Italy, I invite you and your friend. I haven't known war in my life, my parents did, I have been lucky. But I could have been in your place, living next door, I wonder how could I have reacted....
What a powerful, moving testimony - and although it may seem wholly strange to use this word, even beautiful.
What Zahra wrote in this childhood memory is so devastatingly true today: "I was a four- or five-year-old girl, about 22 years ago, sitting next to my father while the television was showing images of children in Gaza, images that I later realized have never stopped, we just sometimes look away from them so we can live."
Solidarity is so vital but so complex: seeing but looking away is part of it.
Absolutely.
Dear Naghmeh, there are no beaches in Switzerland, (maybe on the lake Leman..) but there are plenty in Italy. A beach is a state of mind, a place where there is no danger, no war, no fear. When all this evil will end, please come to the beach in Italy, I invite you and your friend. I haven't known war in my life, my parents did, I have been lucky. But I could have been in your place, living next door, I wonder how could I have reacted....
Not bad for someone who can't find words!
I appreciate your posts. They cut through the "aboutisms" directly to experience.
David Hoban
Thank you.