It’s come to this. Her chin is blown off. Half her face is swinging around like a bloody pork chop. A pretty girl, painstakingly fed, nurtured and cared for by diligent, loving parents in the far from optimal living conditions of Gaza. Her innocent visage turned to mush because she and millions like her have been dehumanized by Israel and the US, faithfully aided by the western media and lots of boring depictions of brown terrorists in Hollywood movies with the most rudimentary story archs. Excruciating pain. Despair and fatigue in her eyes. In the background other injured are lying on the floor. Pandemonium.

The doctors make a numb impression, their human instincts made blunt by the sight of too many unspeakable horrors. Well, panic or shock on their part won’t do this victim of Israeli aggression any good anyway. Surely they know there is not a single facility in all of Gaza equipped to reconstruct the facial features of this little princess. We sit here and watch, our skin crawling, our stomach twisting, our raging cortisol levels shortening the time we have left on this planet somewhat.

We sit here, powerless, with leaders who will do nothing to put a stop to this revolting case of mass child abuse, no matter who we vote for. Except for some hollow phrases and some tentative moves to say that maybe, just maybe, Israel has potentially crossed some kind of line. One wouldn’t want to lose powerful connections and lavish donations over this little side show. It’s summer and all, let’s not have some savages ruin the holidays.

And if you use every smidge of creativity you can summon you can really almost convince yourself that there is nothing in the world that you could do to help anyway. And let’s definitely not get original and suggest Israel did have a choice in this and did not have to launch this orgy of revenge and could for starters have created real safe havens for the civilians before it, supposedly, went after Hamas, because, on October 7th, it’s ridiculously overfunded military was either caught with its pants down or is led by people who wanted a a catastrophe to happen in order to have a pretext for genocide, the Israeli playbook since at least 1947.

The last fig leaf covering up western indifference, lethargy, empty hedonism seeking, anxiety inducing individualism and insatiable thirst for more ego boosts and callous capital lust of its elites is dwindling to the floor along with this girl’s cheek. As a parent following this Israeli onslaught over the months you can no longer look at your own kids without imagining them in similar circumstances, searching your mind for the frantic steps you would take to somehow ease their suffering. Then there are still the emotionally stunted, intellectually underdeveloped closet case sadists who want to preemtively torpedo any empathy any sane individual feels for this brutally battered child because of things they have only the flimsiest, cartoonish notions of, things they have never devoted any serious study to, simplistic buzz words employed so they can keep their front row seat in the Israeli made colosseum, enjoying the gore for highly personal reasons only years of psychotherapy could perhaps make them see. Words like Hamas, terrorism and historically refuted claims that Israel wants nothing but peace.

If you have, over the last few months, found people who, like you, empathize with these innocents, treasure them, root for them, communicate with them, encourage them, support each other, make friends. If any good is to come out of one of the worst crimes against humanity ever organized, let it, for example, be the unification of all good people against evil.

Thanks to anyone who was unaffected by the lame gaslighting tactics to do the right thing and say: not in my name. I hope from the bottom of my aching heart this girl will recover and bring to this world what Israel wants to prevent most: happy children and grandchildren.

Have a blessed day.