We’re shepherded to choose war, a disaster of biblical proportions
A wounded man is wheeled into at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City during Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory, on October 13, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
Over the past couple of weeks everyone has been sharing their position and opinion about this conflict. It is loaded. I wondered why it felt so unapproachable when I remembered: The War in Ukraine was the same.
Barely had the invasion started than Africans were being pressed to choose sides. I declined. I have a rather simple understanding of war itself: There are perpetrators and there are victims. I know who the victims are, feeding the egos of their oppressors is not my job.
