The World Cannot Know True Peace Until We Have Reckoned With What We Did To Gaza by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-05-21 at 06:03:28 )

The World Cannot Know True Peace Until We Have Reckoned With What We Did To Gaza by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

The Gaza holocaust is the product of the way the world was before it happened. Our society birthed it into existence, and now it is staring us all right in the face.

I was listening to a young writer describe an idea he had had that he was so excited about he could not sleep the night before, and I remembered how before Gaza I used to get excited about writing stuff. I have not felt that feeling since 2023.

I am not complaining or feeling sorry for myself, I am just remarking on how incredibly bleak and dark the world has been during this terrible time. It would be weird and unhealthy if I was enjoying my job here this past year and a half. These things are not supposed to feel good. Not if you are really looking at them and being sincere and honest with yourself about what you are seeing.

It has been so ugly and so unsettling this whole time. There is not really any way to reframe all this horror and make it okay. All you can do is work on yourself to make sure you have enough inner spaciousness to accommodate the bad feelings and feel them all the way through until they have had their say. Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain. Let it move all the way through your system without resisting and then get up and write the next thing.

That is what writing is for me now. It is never anything I am excited to share or am lit up with inspiration about. If anything it is more like "Okay, here you go, awful sorry I have got to show this to you, folks." It is just staring into the darkness and the blood and the gore and the anguished faces and writing out what I see, day after day.

Nothing about it is pleasant or rewarding. It is just what you do when there is a live-streamed genocide happening right in front of you with the backing of your own society. Everything about it sucks, and there is no way to make it not suck, but you do what needs to be done, like you would if it were your own family out there in the rubble.

This genocide has changed me forever. It has changed a lot of people forever.

We will never be the same. The world will never be the same. No matter what happens or how this nightmare ends, things are never again going back to the way they were.

And they should not. The Gaza holocaust is the product of the way the world was before it happened. Our society birthed it into existence, and now it is staring us all right in the face. This is who we are. This is the fruit of the tree of what western civilization has been up until this point.

Now it is just a matter of doing everything we can to make sure the genocide ends, and that the world learns the right lessons from it. This is as worthy a cause as anyone could take up in this life.

I still have hope that we can have a healthy world. I still have hope that writing about what is happening can be enjoyable again one day. But these things exist on the other side of some very hard and confronting work in the years to come. There is just no getting around it. The world cannot have peace and happiness until we have fully reckoned with what we did to Gaza!

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