If it was milk spilt, we would not have cried… but it
was blood… that of our folks spilt in the most sacred places… that is why we
will cry… but maybe with one eye… to see with the other one who that Judas is
who sells us for less than thirty silver coins… and also to perceive with
vigilant eyes our way out of that mire!
We will not cry like Taifa kings of Andalusia
did when they lost Andalusia after they were inflicted with political
fragmentation… but rather we will cry like Amal Dunqol asked us to do in his
poem… “we will not make reconciliation”… because those things are not to be
compromised… memories of our childhood… between Ahmed, Muhammed, Mahmood.. and
George, Gerges, Saydarous… we grew up together and suddenly felt manhood… like
the poem says “that two swords fight for you… two voices speak for you… and
that in case you died, someone will take care of your family… someone will take
care of your kids as if he is their father”.
That blood spilt in Mar Gerges and Mar Murqos churches
will not go in vain… we will not forget those clothes, floors, walls, chairs
and altar shed with blood… therefore, we will not make reconciliation and we
will not accept blood money… it is not an eye for an eye… not a tooth for a
tooth… because they are not equal!... The head of that five-year-old child girl
and that of the twenty-years-old young man… and others of our folks who
martyred are not like those heads of those demons who know nothing about God…
about mercy… about compassion… about nobility… about country… because they have
no concepts or morals at all!
We will not make reconciliation because the one lives
among us peacefully is not equal to another killing us!
We will not make reconciliation even if we were
deprived sleep… we will not make reconciliation and we will not believe them
even if they said they gave up politics and decided by their own will to let it
go because blood has become now a sign and badge of honor.
We will not make reconciliation no matter what peace
speeches they give… because we will not breathe that defiled air… we will not
share food with those who killed us… because it is not our revenge alone… it is
the revenge of generations after generations… tomorrow, our sons will take
revenge for their martyred folks… they will bring justice out of the impossible!
We will not make reconciliation until the whole
universe goes back to its ever-continuing cycle… stars to their exact timings…
birds to their twitters… sands to their nuclei… and the martyred to his child
daughter!
We will not make reconciliation because that who
killed us is not a God to decide to end our lives…
We will not make reconciliation because reconciliation
is an agreement between two rivals equal in honor… and the one who killed us is
nothing but a thief who stole our security and safety… and who had no honor to
keep!
We will not make reconciliation because there is no
such thing with traitors… with Judas… any Judas in any county at any time… for
those who do not know Judas, I repeat what I wrote two years ago… Judas is that
disciple of Jesus… he decided to betray Jesus and delivered him to his enemies…
enemies of justice and truth; the Sanhedrin… here we read in the Gospel of
John, chapter 13 a depiction of the scene when Judas betrayal started and how
prophet Jesus discovered this: “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was
come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his
own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. Jesus knowing that the
Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and
went to God“… Then we read in the same chapter: “… When Jesus had thus said, he
was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one on another,
doubting of whom he spake. Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he
should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus' breast
saith unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give
a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to
Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.“
We have to search for and know that Judas who pollutes
the waters of the Nile, the soil and air… all that poison all plants and
animals so that sick ailing generations, incapable of production or defending
their country or even their lives, are born.
We have to search for that Judas that destroys the
educational and research processes… and who injects poisonous ideas to our
children and youth… so that they graduate holding the highest degrees while
they cannot write a proper Arabic sentence or even master another language or
have any ability to conduct creative research.
We search for Judas in the field of health services;
meaning health of the Egyptian citizen… that traitor who produces medications
empty of effective substance and who leaves the patients without care… who
leaves the equipment coated with dust or corroded due to remissness… or who takes
bribes in order to give people their fundamental rights… it is the same Judas
everywhere… in industry… in agriculture… in commerce… in services… and every
field.
What is more dangerous is that Judas who keeps
dismantling and fragmenting our country into separate ghettos segregated based
on religion, sect, or doctrine… also those who keep dismantling our country
into sides and races and ripping our nation apart with social injustice
claiming that capital has the right to make any revenues whenever it wants away
from any social, cultural or civilization commitments.
What is most dangerous is that Judas who sheds the
blood of our sons… in particular the army and police forces… also innocent
people who die in such booby traps in the streets, on bridges and before
schools, hospitals, banks and security check points.
It is Judas who facilitates establishing tunnels under
our borders and gives a blind eye about them while he knows these tunnels are
poisonous daggers that go deep in the very core of our nation ripping it apart…
it is Judas who does not do his duty and learns nothing from what happened
before… in doing so, he lets the most evil Judas gloats when he commits his
crime in the same way again and again through the same gaps of remissness and
not paying attention.
While searching for Judas, we have to notice carefully
as maybe every one of us has his own Judas inside… that Judas who keeps
discouraging us from doing something useful so that we do the same thing to
others who are active… it is that Judas who pushes us to doubt everything… to downgrade
any achievement done… and to belittle any effort exerted… also blackening our
vision for the future to block the light from reaching our eyes and souls.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in
Al Ahram newspaper on April 13, 2017.
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