The grim, shocking, destructive are now routine in Gaza. One Israeli airstrike, six journalists struck from the scrolls of the living. Targeted strike? The fog of war, if war it still is? War’s haze furnishes the perfect cover to eliminate obstacles, especially human ones. The murk of war is opportune also to hunt down truth to destroy it. The same thing that I told (keep telling) the powers in GT, it’s the exact same message expressed to Tel Aviv. Truth cannot be suppressed. Truth is immortal. Revisit the Torah, the Talmud.
The Israelis say that they possess a cache of not arms, but documents connecting one journalist, Anas Al-Sharif, to Hamas. May this fearless pursuer of truth find comfort in the arms of heaven. I bow to the passing of a brave brother. The Israelis have astounding capabilities in many fields. My own intelligence indicates that the PPP Government has tapped into some of those capabilities to its advantage and to the disadvantage of Guyanese. Conscientious, law-abiding, Guyanese found offensive, and who therefore are given the special PPP-Israeli treatment. Lots of scurrilous, streamlined PPP attention. In noting the wizardry of the Israelis at war-winning on the ground, but losing everywhere else-something stuck out conspicuously re its claims of a link between the now assassinated Anas Al-Sharif and Hamas. If the Israeli Defense Force could have reached deep into the heart of Teheran and assassinated a bunch of nuclear scientists, then it is a short stroll to get rid of a troublesome journalist in neighboring Gaza. In recognizing the skills of the IDF at intelligence gathering, onlookers are also asked to yield before a void: Hamas is so stupid, so careless, so helpful that it provides a trail of evidence that connects Al-Sharif to itself.
A journalist in a warzone riddled with appalling atrocities, who also serves as a prized Hamas undercover asset operates with the fullest evidence trail that points him right back to the people whose interests he is serving clandestinely. When developments are too good to be true, too neat (and too clever) to be palatable, then things begin to fall apart. In the undercover craft what has been claimed as discovery relative to Al-Sharif might as well be a loaded filing cabinet in the middle of a street controlled by the Israeli army; one begging to be opened. So that he can be snuffed out. It didn’t matter that other reporters of war’s horrors had to pay the ultimate price. An uneven, gruesome war, if ever there was one. Five having to go to get one is a small price, and a big victory, in what is called war. I call it the war against revelations of truths that no longer repel the world, so numb it has become.
When falsehoods and deceptions must be maintained at all costs, then truth is that most inviting, most vulnerable, most convenient first target, the quickest casualty. Guyanese don’t need to stretch their necks to Gaza or Al Jazeera to gather for themselves how truth can be mangled. Nor the skill with which truth is reengineered and rearranged. Nor the tireless efforts to suppress truth, then extinguish its bright light. All that Guyanese have to do is to focus their gaze right here in GT and there is the PPP Government. I have repeatedly tried to serve as guide to the president, a shepherd to Vice President Jagdeo, and a counsel to Attorney General Nandlall, all noblemen of Guyana towards life’s most infallible summits. I failed in teaching them. Truth is unconquerable. Truth cannot be vanquished nor put to shame. Truth has that starling quality about it, that even when believed to have been delivered a fatal blow, it rises. The greater the effort to suppress truth and light, greater still they are resistant and transcend futile endeavors that represent the widest expanse of foolishness. In the instance of the president, there’s a leader now so distant from truth’s shores that even his name is now lost in the mists and myths that he has created, now swallow him whole, so alien that force has become to him.
Last, the Israelis have all the weapons, all the assets. So, too, does the PPP Government of the president, VP, and AG. They may gain ground, they may scale a pond, they may quench a mortal coil, but those are all to no avail. Truth stares them in the face, spits at them in the eye, and all they can go is bring out their handkerchiefs. Those, too, are soiled. When many lengths are gone so that the living is smeared and the dead is desecrated, then it is clear that men have a world of calumnies and depravities to hide. Truth towers above, outlasts (and outguns) all.
