When the apartheid regime of Israel brought its villainous flag and the most oppressive sign of the world today was brought to our shores, we woke up.  We woke up to the alarming dark diplomatic cloud on the horizon.     

Hearing the agony of innocent Palestinian children’s cries; heeding the wailing mothers’ weeping call and feeling for the paralyzed, disinherited, and robbed fathers, we see the North setting itself up for the same perdition, placing itself in the eyes of a hurricane of horror.  

The pariah state world around (Israel), the same genocidal regime augers no sign of hope nor a diplomatic breakthrough, nor political benefit or economic advantage.

It does not come with peace, for it buried it dead in 1948 when it expelled a million Palestinians from their motherland. 

It has no financial ability to appease anyone but a destructive military machine equipped to steal Palestinian lives and land.    

It no longer waves the diplomatic muscle it once touted but a technological terror.

It saves no lives but takes away in the millions, sheds more innocent tears than the world combined, violates human rights by volumes, pulverizes cities, villages and farms by the thousands.  

Exporting such a criminal contempt to your house is suicidal. To invite the genocidal, criminally indicted (by the International Criminal Court), Benjamin Netanyahu, to your soil is disdainful.   Have you no sense of shame? 

You have put yourself in a grave; you have buried your claim to legitimacy left to live for; you sacrificed your historical pride, killed the only commodity of credit you have been selling for 35 years, “peace.” 

The name Israel is synonymous with death and demise.  

You literally murdered your self-worth and destroyed any diplomatic likelihood. 

  So you sold out your sole pride, pawned your religious faith, what have you received in their place?  

Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Chair; Badbaado Waqooyi (Northern Somali front)
Contact: badbaado@waqooyi.org