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ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 59

September
2023

Gaza Scented with Death and

Destruction

Mariam Ismail, 4th level Political Science
mariam.ismail2020@feps.edu.eg
“Condemnation of single incidents without It had failed the moment we started getting
realizing it is systemic, institutional and used to the images of dead children, not now,
strategically executed ethnic cleansing is killing but years ago. It failed the moment we let
more people than bullets are.” incidents of killing pass by with just a short
frustration and agitation. Humanity didn’t fail
These are my words, the words I used to write today, it failed 75 years ago and keeps failing
in this same magazine over and over. Because more and more since then.
of these words, I have been asked to speak up,
to talk, and to tell my opinion. Questions Don’t be mistaken though, this violence didn’t
surrounded me since the 7th of October start 75 years ago, it has been rooted in the
wondering why I haven’t spoken yet. So here I Zionist ideology long before the occupation. It
am trying to fit into new words what I really had always bewildered me, how Muslims have
feel since the start of the war on Gaza, because always been criticized for relying too heavily on
my old words aren’t enough anymore or to be their belief and faith while there’s an entire
more specific they have been proven right so I state built on religious myths, along with
need new ones. innocents’ blood of course. On the 28th of
October, Benjamin Netanyahu referenced the
Honestly, I have spent a lot of time thinking Torah by saying that they are fighting Amalek
where should I start and what should I say. in Gaza just like God has ordered before. The
Shall I talk about the hypocrisy? Shall I talk Amalek or Amalekites were described in the
about the ascending numbers of killed, injured, Jewish myths as a nomadic people who roamed
missing? Shall I talk about the crystal clear war the desert and inhabited the mountains and
crimes? Shall I tell the world how I was correct valleys. They practiced hunting and war, and
to voice the Palestinians struggles since day they did not hesitate to block the road and steal
one? At last, I came to a realization, it is not spoils and caravans. Each of them was
indifference or frustration that are keeping me approximately as tall as a cedar tree, and they
from talking, it is disappointment. I, a simple ate the livers of their enemies. According to the
citizen of the world, am disappointed not in a prime minister, these mythical beings are
specific state or responsible or population, but equivalent to the children and the innocent
disappointed in humanity as whole. So let me civilians being currently bombed in Gaza.
start by stating the obvious: humanity has
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