Conference Papers
The wish of the three profets
Sami Michael
| Sami Michael, |
The art of fighting had perfected itself reaching amazing achievement levels throughout the generations. Today, this art is a well developed science. Unfortunately there were, there are and there will be upholders of war. Their conceives are derived from the laws of the jungle. They praise wars saying that they are a blessing to humanity as they speed up science development. There is something true in this shocking statement. At very high salaries, the best scientists in the world are drafted to invent and develop conventional killing instruments as well as mass destruction techniques – biological, chemical and atomic weapons. Prestigious military academies are diligent in training and teaching brilliant youg people so that they would be able to use these horrible inventions.
The target is always Man himself – children, young girls, young boys, old people and their grandchildren. The target is you, is me, is the young woman with a stroller in the garden next to your house. Everyone is a legitimate target – whether he is white, black or yellow. Actually at this very moment, scientists, commanders and politicians are working on projects for killing by merderous viruses, by atomic bombs. They intend to annihilate their own brothers, the crown of creation.
Both poor and wealthy countries ensure high budgets to draft the healthiest, the strongest, the boldest boys so that they will use these deadly tools in the quickest way.
The Middle East had the bad luck to propose itself as the experimental field for the homicide stupidity of man, for a whole century, generation after generation, our children are called to use war vehicles, and to prove their manhood by killing their brothers. We added our experience to the experience of other nations in perfecting the art of war.
In the Middle East we, the Israelis, and our Arab neighbours, became great masters in the craft of death. Today we are more capable of destroying and defeating each other than of blooming the desert. We are more capable of killing than of clearing a polluted river, or than eliminating dangerous deseases.
Greedy and debased morality lead companies, governments and foreign counselors to help us with this slaughter job. We rob the slice of bread from the infant’s mouth to buy an aircraft and a bomb. We sell it to learn from Europe and America how to put an end to the life of the next door’s infant whose bread slice we have robbed too.
We fought so much war that, we – the Israelis and our Arab neighbours – were turned into great war experts. Meanwhile we became ignorant about how to make peace. While generals receive ornaments, peace activists are killed by their own people. They are looked at disdainfully and hatefully. In the whole world there is no academy, even one, that teaches sworn enemies how to make peace, how they can find thir way back to good neighbourhood relations. No school teaches us how to live in peace, how to understand that we are made of the same material and that we will all eventually revert to it. While we pay huge capitals to war experts, peace promoters are forced to defend their freedom. Some countries organized a witch hunt against peace supporters.
Now, Israeili representatives and Palestinian representatives are sitting in this room. Far from the public eye, we can foster a common consciousness that we are destined either to live in abundance or die in misery.
As individuals we know that peace is possible. Yet, up to now, we were not intelligent enough to make this healthy sensation as inheritance to the majority.
Our prayer to the enlightened world:
Please do no teach us how to hate each other. We already absorbed hatred with the milk of our mothers.
Please do not teach us how to fight. We were excellent students of our professors, who invented the war aircraft, the missile and the bomb. Actually we are already teaching other people, far from our area, how to slay each other efficiently.
Please do not sell us selected biological weapons, nor poisoned gas, nor devices for the atomic bomb. Our arsenals are filled to full capacity with these dangerous toys. We bought and acquired so many of them that our area is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Please help us to turn the Middle East into a pioneer school where we will teach children of the same planet that life is a little sparkle, that it is a pity to shorten before time.
Probably, we still did not grow up. We have not found yet the way to build modern democratic countries that dare to live peacefully with their neighbours. The three prophets were revealed in our area. It is necessary for us to understand that the core of their faith is this: nothing is more precious than human life.
Sami Michael