
Ɖ wor in Gāza hz bn an intns lésn in wstn hipocṛsi. It w’nt b fgotn
Transcription of a Guardian article of 27 November 2023
Ppl hv sìn tù mć ɖt wl ste wɖ ɖm tù loñ. Trust in ɖ ‘inṭnaśnl cḿṇti’ wl nvr b ɖ sem

Munde, 27 Nvmbr 2023
Ɖ iṃjz v hosṭjz n priznrz biyñ ri-ynîtd wɖ ɖer faṃliz r olmst tù hopfl t abzorb. Īvn az Izreli oʈoṛtiz xpliṣtli trî t s’pres Paḷstińn “xpreśnz v jô” at ɖ rtrn v ɖer priznrz, ɖ fact ɖt ɖe wr rlist, n ɖt sm Izreli hosṭjz r nǎ sef n ri-ynîtd, signlz sm smōl promis. Bt īvn f ɖ wîldist hop z riylîzd – a lastñ sīsfîr – ẃt hz olrdi unfoldd ovr ɖ past 52 dez wl b hard t fget.
Ɖr z a śort vidio, postd on sośl mīdia a fy wīcs ago, ɖt I canot gt ǎt v mî hed. In ɖ clip, a man in Gāza z holdñ tū plastic bagz ɖt cari ɖ bodiparts v a ćîld, prizyṃbli hiz. Ɖr r uɖr dītelz. Ɖ lc on ɖ man’z fes. Ɖ we ɖoz arnd him avôd îcontact wns ɖe riylîz ẃt h z cariyñ. I si ɖz dītelz ofn nǎ, sudn n unbidn. Ɖ imośnl n sîc̣lojicl impact v ɖ wor on ɖoz ǎtsd Gāza – no matr hǎ intns – z a sort v priṿlij, haṗnñ, az it z, onli on ǎr scrīnz. Bt ɖr z smʈñ lastñ abt ɖz iṃjz. Uɖrz I nǒ r hōntd tù, bî difṛnt viźnz. Bî ɖ doctr hu cem acrs hr huzbnd’z bodi ẃl trītñ bomñvictimz. Bî ɖ faɖr strocñ n rocñ a dust-cuvrd bebi on hiz ćst wn last tîm.
In ɖ cors v evride lîf n in mî sośl-mīdia fīdz, I si ppl hu se ɖe fīl ɖe r gwñ mad. Ɖt ɖr r ʈñz ɖe wl nvr unsi. Ɖt ɖe c’nt slīp, ɖt ɖer inṭax́nz wɖ ɖ ćildṛn in ɖer lîvz hv bcm tinjd wɖ a sort v qīzi gilt. Ɖ fīlñ sīmz t b nt jst grīf, bt bwildrmnt at ɖ fact ɖt it hz ol carid on fr so loñ. Bt ɖe cīp woćñ. T stop lcñ z t admit ɖt y r hlplis. It mīnz y hv rzînd yrslf t ɖ fact ɖt ɖr z nʈñ y cn d, n ɖt y wl ivnć̣li s’cum t ɖt eṇmi v justis – a ftīg ɖt sīmz olrdi t b setñ in.
Ɖ truʈ, tù hard t axpt, z ɖt ɖr z nʈñ y cn d. Y cn rait t yr MP, y cn marć, y cn pṛtst. N ɖ cilñ cntinyz. Az ɖt hapnz, a jarñli bludlis acǎnt v ɖ conflict z gvn bî p’liticl līdrz in cuntriz lîc ɖ YS n YC, wn ɖt sīmz t omit ɖ śir fact n numbr v ɖ deʈs n rzorts instd t an olmst sriyl lanḡj ɖt cōlz fr “evri poṣbl pricōśn” t pṛtct sviłn lîf. YN ofiślz, nt noun fr intmpṛns, nǎ lūz ɖer cūl n yz ɖ strongist trmz poṣbl, in ẃt sīmz t b a d’rect rzult v ɖs wird insistns on nt cōlñ riaḷti ẃt it z. Ɖ de bfr ɖ trūs, Gāza oʈoṛtiz pt ɖ deʈtol at 14,532.
Ɖt’s ẃr ɖ sns v luzñ yr mînd cmz fṛm: ɖ fact ɖt it sīmz, fr ɖ frst tîm ɖt I cn ʈnc v, wstn pǎrz r unebl t creḍbli pritnd ɖt ɖr z sm globl sistm v rūlz ɖt ɖe uphold. Ɖe sīm t simpli se: ɖr r xpśnz, n ɖt’s jst ɖ we it z. No, it c’nt b xplend n yes, it wl cari on untl it dz’nt at sm pônt, ẃć sīmz t b ẃn Izreli oʈoṛtiz fīl lîc it.
Part v ɖt in’biḷti t rīć fr cnvinsñ naṛtivz abt ẃ so mni iṇsnt ppl mst dî z ɖt ivnts esc̣letd so qcli. Ɖr wz no tîm t set ɖ pes v ɖ atacs on Gāza, priper justiḟceśnz n hop ɖt ivnć̣li, ẃn it wz ol ovr, tîm n śort atnśnspanz wd cuvr p ɖ tol. Gāza hz bn a ynīcli, incnvińntli, intns conflict. “Xprts se ɖt ɖ pes v deʈ jrñ Izrel’z campen hz fy presidnts in ɖs snć̣ri,” ɖ Ny Yorc Tîmz sz. A militri xprt comntd it wz lîc nʈñ h’d sìn in hiz c’rir. Ɖ eria z so dnsli popyletd ɖt ɖ tol v sviłnz z tù hî, n evidns fr hvñ unḍmaind Hamas’z cepbiḷtiz, ɖ onli poṣbl justiḟceśn fr ɖ caźltiz, z tù lo.
N so ɖ past fy wīcs hv bn a spīdd-up lésn in ɖ iluẓri nećr v inṭnaśnl lw. Unlîc Irac, it hz nt tecn yirz fr ɖ bodiz t pîl p, fr ɖ evidns t mǎnt n t pruv ɖt ɖ vnćr md nwn sefr, wz mrsilis n msgîdd – n ultiṃtli fr confidns n trust in p’liticl līdrśp t lìć awe. Gāza z haṗnñ in riyl tîm, in sm instnsz lîvstrīmd. Ɖ bombardmnts r so rlentlis n consntretd ɖt intîr faṃliz hv bn wîpt ǎt. Ʈǎzndz hv bn dsplest, dragñ ɖer ćildṛn in mc-śift sledz (anɖr harowñ sīn). Ɖr z olso ɖ moṛl fors v ɖ ćildṛn. Nt jst ɖer deʈs, esṭmetd at p t 6,000 in les ɖn tū munʈs, bt ɖer orḟnñ, dsplesmnt, n depṛveśn v fūd n wōtr in a bsijd Gāza ɖt z nǎ, acordñ t YNIĆIF, “ɖ most denjṛs ples in ɖ wrld t b a ćîld”.
Hymnz cn b tòt t axpt an ōfl lot ɖt dz nt mc sns, bt ɖr z a limit t ẃt ppl cn b plōẓbli tld z nt poṣbl. Mć v cnsnt in poḷtics z s’krd bî popylr agrīmnt ɖt ɖr r ʈñz ɖt r simpli abv ɖ aṿrij sitizn’z pêgred, n īvn bynd guvnmntcntrol. Nt biyñ ebl t pswed “ɖ onli dmocṛsi in ɖ Midl Īst” v smʈñ ɖt sīmz plenli obvịs, ɖt ɖ hrific ivnts v 7 Octobr canot b irezd bî īvn mor horr, z nt wn v ɖm. Ɖ lésn z brūtl n śort: hymn rîts r nt yṇvrsl n inṭnaśnl lw z arbtreṛli aplaid.
I d’nt nǒ ẃr ɖt reṿleśn gz, wns it arîvz. Wn ʈñ I cn se wɖ mor srtnti z ɖt ppl hv sìn tù mć ɖt wl ste wɖ ɖm fr a loñ tîm. Ẃtvr hapnz wɖ ɖ frajîl trūs ɖt hz rlist a ʈin re v lît, a darcnis hz olso bn rlist intu ɖ wrld. Its fînl form z yt t tec śep, bt tec śep it wl.