Broken World

I can’t do it. I can’t bring myself to follow what is unfolding in the Middle East.

I used to harbour hopes that the wider international community might be able to find a way to help mediate things. That’s just not going to happen. The reality is that they have to find a way to live with each other and it has to come from both of them.

The world will watch the coming slaughter, mostly in silence. The response will be unrelenting and extreme. It’s not even a surprise. It’s incredibly harrowing to know what is coming and be helpless to offer any help on an individual level.

It’s not about winning an idealistic cause.
It’s about people.
People, any people, living side by side.
People raising their children.
People taking their kids to school.
People getting married.
People growing up.
People getting older.
People falling in love.

The world broke a lot more in the last week.