Revenge against whom?

Is it Israel‘s revenge against the entire region for a feud that has lasted more than seventy years?

“The water is turbid, the electricity barely reaches the individuals, so what agreements and truces are we seeking? A ceasefire in exchange for full acquiescence? No respect? No rights? No powerful neighboring entities?”

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RUBA AYYASH

After this destruction and devastation, there are only fragile states that do not respect their entities, do not protect their borders, and do not preserve their identities, countries that are unable to protect their peoples, who are now using fuel for successive wars: sometimes against the “enemy” and sometimes against the “neighbor”, with the change of sect, the change of agenda, and the difference in language and affiliation.

What kind of peace are we waiting for? And what stability? And what card is really capable of ending all this torment?

In light of this real contradiction between the components of the nations in agreeing on the concept and form of a single state, it seems that the compass has been lost and the country has been lost. Borders have become a mirage, the economy is collapsing, unemployment and poverty are spreading, and young people have no dreams or a destination.

The water is turbid, the electricity barely reaches the individuals, so what agreements and truces are we seeking? A ceasefire in exchange for full acquiescence? No respect? No rights? No powerful neighboring entities?

Does what is all happening seem like an episode of revenge without end? Revenge against whom? Is it Israel’s revenge against the entire region for a feud that has lasted more than seventy years? Collective punishment for everyone because they didn’t accept it as an acceptable component?

But it never came in peace. Even when Yitzhak Rabin came up with agreements, they themselves killed him; what agreements are we talking about?

On the other side, does the scene in the stricken East look like revenge on each other? The Christian who turned against the Muslim, who may have changed the identity of the land? And the Sunni who sees the Shiite as a project that threatens his existence? And the Druze who considers himself lost and threatened by everyone? And the Kurd who seeks a state on the borders of the Arabs, Turks, Persians and Israel?

How can we get out of this hell? Does the region have to only choose between predetermined options? To live under the shadow of a party’s foresight? Either Israel or Hamas? Either Hezbollah or Israel? Either Assad or Israel? Or maybe Iran? Either Sunni or Shia? Either the Arab or the Turkish?

As if there is no other respectable option, no new humanitarian option with a modern, civilized vision that gives the region a real opportunity to redefine the concept of the state?

The components and parties must agree on a realistic, respectful, and humane form for the state, for human dignity, for human rights; countries that are capable of respecting individuals and providing services, that do not consider human existence alive as a luxury; countries that do not sacrifice individuals for slogans and leaflets, and do not make themselves a battlefield for settling scores or to achieve illusions and dreams of empires over the ruins of the corpses of children and women, and on the dreams of youth and the dignity of adults.

Is it possible?

18-07-2025

RUBA AYYASH: Multimedia Journalist @ Sky News Arabia ; Master’s in Journalism, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

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