Author: Hala Deeb Jabbour

What Do I Say to all of you reading this post?

What Do I Say to the Me that is living on this Planet and going about her mundane daily tasks: Showering, making the bed, tidying up, shopping for groceries, cooking, washing? A Retired Old Soul juggling the Very Ordinary? What Do I Say to the Some of you who might be juggling all that, as well as a job, partners, maybe young kids, teenagers and all those other duties and requirements?

And What Do I Say to that Other Me who is suspended somewhere in a space overlooking this Planet with one hand on her broken heart, the other on her lamenting cheek and wondering how the hell could it have become this horrible? Am I being Pessimistic? Or, am I being Realistic? Frankly I don’t even know that anymore!

I look around and find that our Climate is causing disastrous issues and so Many, Many Humans are suffering the consequences of the Warning Bells and Alerts that have been pealing for at least the past thirty years, while numerous conferences, meetings, suggestions, negotiations and agendas were cutting millions of trees in order to print reports and reports and more reports most of which have yet to materialize into tangible results? It takes time, some tell me. Can we afford the time, I question? Again, I have no answers while I observe the sad and horrific turbulence that Climate is causing.

Then I look at all those Terrible Wars going on and causing More and More Humans to suffer their very dire consequences as Politicians, World Leaders and Universal and International Organizations seem to have become Totally Irrelevant in providing any Fair, Sensible, Responsible Solutions? To the contrary! They seem to be looking through the very narrow needle holes through which they only see their own tribal, or party, or national interests but that have no regard for the longterm consequences. Meanwhile, Millions of Humans have become only Collateral Damages to their Arrogant, Selfish and Peep Hole View of the World and its Catastrophes. They – certainly not All of them – spout off as if they are God’s Gift To Mankind with their self-serving and entitled opinions and hypocritical words! Simply listen to the Lies, Deceit and Propaganda of the Israeli Government, or the Hypocrisy of those who accept their arguments even though, if you substitute Palestine in place of Ukraine on so much of what they passionately spew you would be simply astounded at their Hypocrisy and Bullshit! Do they really believe that we are all Idiots who can’t see through their doublespeak and verbal gymnastics? Infuriating Dystopia? You’d better believe it! May they all rot in hell!

After reading one of my social media posts, a beautiful younger friend whom I have known since she was a teenager, messages me asking: “Should We Give Up Hope?” I respond: “Never! But it is a depressing, infuriating period of the long arm of history! I won’t be around, but for all of you younger generations: Never Give Up! Karma is Unforgiving!” Her touching answer was: “It sure is infuriating and depressing. Thank you. I needed to hear that.”

Yes, we all need to hear that. To say it to ourselves and to our loved ones. We do! We do, and despite the fact that the whole world is in a disconcerting state, I still sometimes wonder how much I believe my own words when my heartbreaking issues remain Palestine and the Palestinian Humans, Lebanon and the entire Middle Eastern Region all causing me sleepless nights, distracted and unfocused thinking and so, so much pain and despair??!! This has been going on since the Colonization of Palestine was plotted by the Complicit Colonist Enterprise, which, sadly and in this particular case, is not only the US, UK, Israel, NATO and the EU, but also Includes every King, Emir, Sheikh, President of all the wider region. This devious plot has been at the basis of all the ensuing wars and catastrophes causing one nightmare after another and then another! So, while yes, we cannot lose Hope, we must also face the sorrowful and painful reality that the Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Egyptian et al Humans of the Middle East have been sold down the river – the Styx River that goes straight to Hell! However, I say to myself, there is No Certainty in Life, and, especially not in Politics. So Where is it all going? When will it end? How will it end? Questions that seem to have no hopeful answer at this time, because it appears that it is going to get Worse and Worser and Much More Worse before there is a glimmer of Sanity, Sense of Responsibility, Humanity and Morality!

And just for your information: Whether it is Trump or Kamala who wins this election it will be the same old heartbreaking, distressing bullshit for the Middle East. As I said in a previous post whether the dagger is thrust in our hearts with Braggadocio, or a Feminist Twist it will still make us bleed! Profusely!

So, yes, we should Never give up Hope, but we must also realize that there are situations when it is extremely difficult to imagine a better tomorrow. The events we are witnessing, especially recently, are so depressing, so painful, so sorrowful as to make it much harder to imagine what tomorrow will bring. More of the same? Not? I don’t know. I wish that I did!

Meanwhile, what has changed since my Post of July 30th., 2014 titled Free Fall? I reread it and teared up! How much more can Any Human Being absorb and process, when the carnage has Not Let Up for the past One Hundred Years?

At this point in time I feel that it is not only Humanity that has fled our Planet, but Justice, Equality, Sanity and Responsibility as well! That is not how to have a World Order, Respect for Others, Regard for Institutions and Common Decency!! I have no more words, for What Do I Say that will make us all feel better? Nothing! Nothing!

Presidential Debate: To begin with: David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News were excellent! 5 Stars to both of them! Then, there was nothing new, because if you had watched a Trump, or a Harris Rally you would have already heard what they stated at the debate. Those who support Trump and the fawning by the usual suspects on Fox News said that he won, those who support Harris and the fawning on MSNBC, said she did, those who follow CNN came back with a Meh, and for those undecideds it remains a tossup! In either case, and whether Trump wins the election, or Harris does I do not think that the coming four years will be easy for this nation, or the Planet, because it should be obvious by now that the Authoritarianism of our Insatiable Warmongering and the Arrogant Greed of our Corporations whether they are applied with Braggadocio, or a Feminist Twist, will not change!

Moving On: In one of my posts a long time ago (and I can’t remember exactly when) I wrote about a book that I had in which the author talked about the Power Of Women and how the Male Species were Awed by them! She said that in the long, long ago Women were Revered, they were the Priestesses ruling over the Temples, they Initiated young men into Sex and they Gave Birth! How much more Amazing could Females be? Ah! However, it seems that Fate interjected and one morning Males realized that it wasn’t through any Magical, or Spiritual Powers that Females gave birth, but that it was They, the Males, who caused them to get pregnant! An Aha moment for Men, and the ensuing Downfall of Women!

And here we are Twenty One Centuries later still reeling from that bloody Aha Moment when we became second class citizens whereby Equality has eluded us and has been – for most of us, at least – since those days of yore! This was especially brought home to me these past few months and remained at the back of my mind as I was too engrossed with the Politics of the World to dwell on that shocking subject. However, I was appalled around the middle of August when a thirty-one year old female doctor in Kolkata, India had gone to an exhausted sleep after a hard days’ work and never woke up because she was assaulted, abused, raped and killed! A suspect was caught on CCTV. This was not the first rape incident in India. It is a tragic occurrence that happens quite frequently, but it did invite a very strong backlash as protestors took to the streets. Will this incident, and the numerous like it in hospitals and on the streets of India change anything? With our Ally, Authoritarian Modi in power, I sadly doubt it!

Then on September first, Rebecca Cheptegei, a thirty-three year old marathon runner from Uganda who had just returned from competing in the Paris Olympics was doused with petrol, set on fire by her boyfriend, and then transported to a hospital where she eventually died tragically and painfully! Her boyfriend who had been in jail died there. Was he offed? I believe so. Apparently though, and according to a recent study 40% of women in Kenya experience gender-based murder and sexual/other abuse! Again, these are not the only incidents of violence against women neither amongst Ugandans, Kenyans, Sudanese, Haitians, Indians or in our entire screwed up world! We all remember the young, beautiful US female athletes who testified in Congress – after their complaints were initially ignored – on how their coaches, one of whom was Larry Nassar, a gymnastics doctor and a despicable serial molester, abused them and hundreds of others sexually and otherwise.

Then, of course, we cannot forget the thousands of incidents of Clerical abuse and rape, as well as Politicians and Men of Power in so many Professions! Adding to this depressing list are all the War Engendered Crimes and Rapes occurring in so many places on this Miserable Planet!

I know that you who are reading this are probably aware of all this monstrous behavior, Nevertheless, we need to be reminded, especially these days when, as another sordid example, the married Italian Cultural Minister resigned over a love affair after he had hired his mistress as an assistant. On one of the television programs a journalist was asked why there are such numerous sex scandals in Italy? Her candid answer: “due to the culture.” This culture dominates Men all over the Planet as we can see from the numbers of murdered-by-their-partners Women in the US, in the UK, in France and Everywhere!

Most shocking of all Is Gisele Pelicot of France who testified against her Husband – her Husband! – whom she accused of Raping, Drugging her and inviting Other Men to Rape her while she was comatose! Please do look up the details of this Atrocity and get as Shocked as the French People and myself upon being made aware of this Indescribable Crime! Her husband, Dominique, and all the Males who participated in this Crime should be Castrated! Just Lop It Off and have them suffer for the rest of their miserable lives! How is it acceptable that we, females are designated as Fair Game for Violence, Abuse and Rape, while the Violence that Men have – and still are – perpetrating from Domestic and Gender Abuse to Warmongering is completely glossed over?! Isn’t it time we recognize that the Male Species is the Culprit here?

This brings me back to the Presidential Debate: Yes, you’d better believe that there is definitely an ongoing War On Women permeating the World when here in our own US of A we have a Presidential Candidate who boasts about “grabbing women by their pussies” and (paraphrasing): you can do anything you want with them when you are famous! Seriously? Moreover, a recent poll indicated that many young men are opting to vote for this Convicted Rapist as they identify with his version of Macho, Authoritarianism and Talibanizing of Women, while young women are choosing to vote for Kamala and for preserving whatever is possible of our Agency Over Our Own Lives!!!???!!! However, as long as Wars and Greed continue to be a tool for Domination, it will invariably be that the War On Women will continue! Neither Trump nor Harris will shamefully do Anything about this!