24 November 2023 morning. As is part of my perfunctory morning routine, I
have a warm cup of earl gray in my hand and settle down to look through
the headlines.
The top news this morning is “Pause in fighting, paving way for release of captives.”
The headline is about war going in Gaza and death and destruction it has caused since 7 October 2023.
The headline is telling us that there will be a mediated pause in
fighting. A semblance of a civilized world will be restored for a couple
of days.
Perhaps for a few days the dust will settle down and the noise of
explosions will give way to silence, amongst which cries of humanity
resulting from its loss can be heard.
There will be a pause in which children and their families will not be
on the run from one shelter to another and for a few nights will have
the blessing of uninterrupted sleep.
The mention of pause also conjures up an image that a couple days an
invisible hand will press a button and the paused brutalities of war
will resume.
The thought conjures up the image of a movie where in the middle of an
action sequence everything gets frozen in midair and after a few seconds
when time resumes, and broken pieces of bones fall on the ground.
The pause is like the freeze time effect in movies.
And so, in a few days the pause in the war would be over. During that
time, a few prisoners and hostages will be released or exchanged. After
that the fighting would resume and inevitably more would die.
The absurdity of it all - exchange few human souls, but later extinguish souls of many more - should be apparent.
Guess that is how the human mind works.
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