Everyone's Tomorrow

Disclaimer : Another essay. This one is special. Miss Kamisah smsed me to tell me about it. And since Clement and Jo were busy, i was left to do it, alone. And i had some stuffs to handle so i can only do it at night. After some research, it was already midnight and by the time i was done, it's almost 4am. Needed that much time to do because i do not know much about the Israel-Palestine incident/war. Not interested really. But now i am quite hooked. But that is not the point. And i have to hand in to Pn Usha Diane in like 3 hours. Damn wtf. Because i missed my slumber. And i hate this theme - world peace palestinians. And Tzen is watching football. And good night.

Typical high school students nowadays are always facing many kinds of problems and obstacles in school. Sometimes they could not catch up with their teachers academically, they face all kinds of friendship problems and at times, dilemmas do occur in their school life, creating more troubles for the students and giving them a headache. I know of a friend who is even more unfortunate to also face family problems despite all the hustle and bustle in school. Going through a day is like being forced to undergo mental torment due to the problems. At least that is how it feels like to the her. She goes to sleep each night, dreading to wake up on the next day to face the same problem all over again. She always hopes for a better 'tomorrow', yet is afraid of accepting the coming of a 'tomorrow' for fear that the coming 'tomorrow' is not a 'tomorrow' she longs for. However, somewhere in Gaza, the civilians might not even have a 'tomorrow'!

At this age of urbanisation and modenisation, we always stress on peace and harmony not only among the human beings but also the surrounding environment. At the same time, an arguement between two nations, which originated back in the 1500s, is getting solved in a way which all of us would never count on - violence. Yes, contradictory i would say, but that is the reality. The verbal war and real war between Israel and Palestine has never ceased. The fight over a piece of land, the fight for their own dignity and for the power over their own land has never once come to an end. Eventually, Israel has made its move to launch an attack towards the Palestine on the 27th of December 2008. Yet, little did they know that what would happen.

At the 19th day of war between Israel and Palestine, victory has not been decided. The invasion towards Gaza continues. Flying missiles and gigantic tanks are still visible in places like Gaza. As Israel marches towards its seemingly victory, more and more innocent civilians and bystanders are sacrificed intentionally and unintentionally. In fact, the number of death has been reported to exceed 900. Children, woman and elderlies are among the victims to the dreadful war. There is no better word for this other than cruelty.

Intentionally or unintentionally getting slaughtered. Is that a way to treat a human being's life? Is that the right way to treat the lives of thousands of innocent civilians? In less than 20 days, more than 900 innocent people were killed, probably unintentionally as reported in the news, by the missiles launched by Israel or Palestine. The civilians were annihilated. The elderlies and women were killed. The teenagers and children were slaughtered. At our age, the teenagers died. The children and teenagers did not get the chance to live a normal life and have a lively childhood. Everyday, they live in the fright and terror of getting killed. Every night, they go to sleep not knowing if they will survive the night. Most of the time, they never sleep at all! Would they dare to close their eyes when they are fully aware of the potential imperilment they are in?

Being fully aware of this cruelty where many lives are being wasted because of a war, why have there been no successful action taken to stop this merciless mass killing? Although years of grudge and war between these two nations is difficult to come to an end, killing the lives of the innocent civilians is definitely not the way out! Probably, United Nations and United States should work out something to stop Israel from killing the innocent people. Whereas we, the normal citizens, can also show our protest by cooperating with the activities held by the government so that Israel can hear our thoughts. This is the least we could do to help the innocent civilians, to provide them with a better tomorrow.

Even though Gaza is situated miles and miles away from Malaysia, even though there is no one related to us staying in Gaza, we should also stop Israel from murdering innocent children, women and elderlies. We should realise that as Israelis march towards Gaza inch by inch, more and more innocent citizens are getting killed. Therefore, before you eat, before you sleep, do pray for the safety of the cilivians trapped in the war. May someone receive our prayers and escape from death. Also, may their tomorrow be one that is longed for, not afraid of.