For the first time, I have faith - found in the midst of hell
This sums up a lot, this is happening. All the war breaking out is the “Sampson option” that will not be fulfilled by the dying western empire.
I can feel this all the time. Its roots are back in my time in Morocco and Somalia. I understand the trajectory of my experience to this moment.
Maybe this is a time for the empathic that feel the world to “be faith”.
Not know it, be it. It cannot be known intellectually - it is a state.
I believe a light has turned on within us, and our part to play is first internal and that will guide our worldly influence.
“For the first time in my life, I can see it. Not on the horizon or in some distant future but here, now. I wish it not just for my children but for me. Freedom is here and we need only reach for it. It has never been so close.
My heart will never stop being a grave. I will never heal from what I have seen. I will cry forever. Still, I have never been so full of despair, and I have also never been so full of hope. For the first time, I have faith.”
~ Rawan Masri, a translator in Ramallah and co-founder of Decolonize Palestine
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/palestine-awakens-the-revolution/