What Israel’s genocidal slaughter has done, over and above the cruel and devastating destruction of Gaza and its people, is to rip apart the façade of the West’s championing of its secular ‘Holy Trinity’ of Human rights, Democracy and International law, thus unveiling, in a new and stark way, for all to see, the triple monsters of US hegemony, a revived Western militarism and the European superiority-complex vis a vis the rest of the world.

(The original meaning of ‘apocalypse’ is ‘the unveiling’. One of those rare moments in history – often a traumatic event – when we are challenged to re-evaluate everything in our lives; ourselves, our country, our planet, in fact, everything. It’s the moment when we open our hearts to see ‘that’ which we prefer to keep hidden).

The Zionist genocidal war on Gaza is an apocalyptic event.

Jimmy James & The Vagabonds – Now Is The Time https://youtu.be/8rj1So21b_A?si=t1bOZUA0nIhusLco via @YouTube

Now is the time to set things right
Now is the time we should unite
We don’t need revolutions
We just need to open our eyes
Revolution is no solution we ought to realize
Now is the time to set things right
Now is the time to see the light …

Take a look around
What a mess we’re living in
God created love
And man
He created sin. (1976 Jimmy James & The Vagabonds)

‘Rouze up O Young Men (and Women) of the New Age …for we have Hierlings in the Camp … Suffer not the fashionable Fools to depress your powers … (William Blake).

I had thought of calling this ‘Edgar’s Gazan Prayer’ or ‘Prayer for Gaza’. But the more I reflected on it, it’s really ‘Edgar’s Prayer for the West’ or even better ‘Edgar’s Prayer for All of Us’.

“I am both Astonished and Outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons …

That the descendants of the people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only Colonize an entire people, partly Drive them out of their land and seek to Expel them for good …

But also, after the massacre of 7 October 2023, engage in a real Massive Slaughter on the Populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting Civilians, Women, and Children.

And to see the Silence of the world. The Silence of the United States, protectors of Israel. The Silence of (most) of the Arab states. The Silence of the European states, who claim to be defenders of Culture, Humanity, Human Rights.

We are living through a Horrible Tragedy, and, powerless as we are in the face of this thing that is unleashing …

I say: Bear Witness! Keep Bearing Witness.

Because, the only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely, is to Testify.

To Testify!

Let’s Resist in our Minds. Let’s not be Fooled. Let’s not Forget. Let’s have the Courage to face things Head-on.”

Edgar Morin, philosopher and sociologist, now 102 years young, is one of France’s most revered intellectual figures. He was a Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle’s ‘Fighting France’. A true polymath, he has contributed to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, visual anthropology, ecology, education and systems biology.