On the day of Pedro Sánchez’s inauguration, a group of ultra-right demonstrators protested at the entrance on Cedaceros Street to the Congress. A delirious image went viral. A gentleman shouted: “Spain has woken up, Spain has woken up”. Next to him two old women asked him: “Who are we going against?”.
It seems that the conflict between Israel and Palestine has taken the football lane of the issue. Either with me or against me. Or from one or the other. There is no excuse for Hamas’s attack on Israel, not one. There is no adversative possible as there is not in the intolerable response of Israel, much kinder in the eyes of Europe and the USA. Palestine is not responsible for Hamas or Netanyahu’s Israel, but we think through a simple analysis those who care less and less about the killing of a creature from whichever side it is. All we needed was Iran’s revenge for Israel’s attack on its embassy in Syria. And, of course, we will not side with a country where being homosexual is a crime and sodomy is punishable by the death penalty. Or yes? Meanwhile, the propaganda machinery of both sides is forceful, despite the fact that Israel has the most to lose because the death toll on the Palestinian side is infinitely higher.
You enter the networks and you realize that it is an entangled conflict where everyone, from anywhere in the world, and despite a lot of ignorance and lack of knowledge, is carrying a flag in their hand. Either one with the blue Star of David on a white background or the other with three horizontal stripes of black, white and green with a red triangle on the side of the pole.
This article is as simple as most of the opinions that society generates about the war conflict, removed from the immense majority of knowledge and only moved by the feeling of the guts. Who do we go with: with Palestine against Israel, with Israel against Iran, with Iran against Israel, with Israel against Palestine? Are we going with Israel because Pedro Sánchez is going with Palestine? Do we go with Palestine because the right goes with Israel?
As if it were a PlayStation game, the title of the century approaches: “The Third World War”. We will sit in front of the screen, take the remote control and ask ourselves, like the two old women in Congress: who are we going up against?
