On a serious note,

You know how these past few years more people have publicly backed views such as ‘Slavery was 400 years ago,’ ‘Slavery was a choice,’ ‘The slaves in fact, were blessed with the opportunity to learn all these valuable skills that left them better equipped for life after captivity’.

I always thought that these people were either in some kind of theatre production the rest of us weren’t aware of, or brains belonging to old rich white people had been transplanted into their skulls.

I always thought such people unreal.

Same way the people who supported bombs being dropped on villages of innocent people because their leadership was rumoured to have nuclear bombs were unreal.

And the people who funded rebels and unrest and murdered world leaders in developing countries were unreal.

And the people who resisted the Civil Rights Movement, and assassinated people who were fighting for a right to vote were unreal.

And the people who burnt books, and run the Jews out of their homes and into concentration camps, were unreal.

In a General Paper talk in high school, this lady spoke to us about refugees, and one thing she kept emphasising was, ‘Treat them with kindness; that could easily be you tomorrow. ’

That resonated.

In the case of the war crimes happening in Gaza, however, the people funding and supporting Israel are powers with an assortment of weaponry and finances at their disposal— people that can’t ever imagine being in the shoes of those Palestinian refugees.

In 20, 50, 400 years, these people will either shrug and say, ‘yes, we knew we were wrong, so?’, offer an apology containing a few statues, ceremonies in honour of the victims and survivors, a sprinkle of cinematic thrillers, or…tell them to get over it.

Unreal, huh?