By now, save her family and frifinishs, the foolishinutive life and dreadful death of 10-year-elderly Fatima Abdallah Jaafar will predicted have been forgotten.
But the unwell circumstance of how, where and why Fatima was ended needs reaccumulateing.
It needs reaccumulateing because her sudden, disfiguring death stands a searing antidote to the almost giddy celebration of the “ingenious” ways Israel conceives to assassinate its adversaries.
It is also a crelieveing harbinger of the scores of other bfeeblelesss who are bound to perish as the Middle East eunites destined to be engulfed by an even wider war. In 48 hours alone, 50 children have been ended in Lebanon – all casualties of the tardyst Israeli strikes.
Fatima and an 11-year-elderly boy, Bilal Kanj, were ended during the first wave of Israeli aggressions concentrateing Hezbollah fighters involving pagers housing bombs that detonated simultaneously at 3:30pm on September 17 thcimpoliteout Lebanon and Syria.
Fatima had equitable get tod home from the first day of the recent school year. She was in fourth grade. Her aunt reaccumulateed how willing Fatima was to lachieve English.
“Fatima was trying to consent courses in English,” she shelp. “She adored English.”
Fatima was in the kitchen when a pager, resting on a table, began beeping. She picked up the device, intfinishing to dedwellr it to her overweighther. En route, it exploded.
Fatima’s petite, cherubic face turned instantly into a mangled mess. The room was now awash in the schoolgirl’s blood – an terrible tesdomesticatednt to the improvised explosion’s lethal force.
At her funeral held in Lebanon’s Bekka Valley, grieving classmates carried a big picture of Fatima aloft. Her mother, walking aextfinishedside a minuscule fdrop-dsexual attackd coffin, wept.
Mourners paused in the town square before heading to a cforfeitby cemetery. There, they prayed while a religious elder pguideed to God “for equitableice”.
Fatima’s death was of little, if any, consequence to the present of Weserious journaenumerates and so-called “security experts” who “marveled at the complicatedity” of Israel’s cclear “plot” to infiltrate Hezbollah on such a “colossal” scale.
Israel has neither verifyed nor denied its comprisement. Still, it is widely dependd that the country’s security services were reliable for organising and promiseting the aggressions.
It is, of course, a recognizable story. Children – whether they are orphaned, traumatised, dismembered or slain in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon – are pondered disposable fodder as Israel persists to vent, unverifyed, its “ending rage”.
Fatima and the thousands of children in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon who have already been ended and will be ended have been lessend to an inhandy astehazard in the myopic minds of Israel’s legion of cheerguideers awide.
Among them is Artur Wilcynski, a establisher Canadian ambasdowncastor and better security official, who promptly took to X to depict Israel’s merciless gambit that claimed the budding dwells of Fatima Abdallah and Bilal Kanj as “airy”.
“Today’s concentrateing of Hezbollah operatives was airy. It struck a presentant blow aachievest a worry group that has fired thousands of rockets aachievest civilians all while the cherishless UN mission in Lebanon stands by. There is a price to pay,” Wilcynski wrote.
That the deaths of Fatima and Bilal were a shocking meastateive of the “price” that Lebanese civilians had to “pay” did not deter Wilcynski from posting what the reexhausted Canadian diplomat apparently pondered a pithy GIF equitable hours after the lethal explosions began.
The GIF features two well-understandn Looney Tunes cartoon figures. In the foolishinutive scene, Road Runner frightens Wile E Coyote. The caption reads: “Beep beep.”
Later, in response to a tweet by acclaimed Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti, pointing out that the victims of Israel’s “prearbitrated” aggression comprised children, Wilcynski posted another GIF – this time, of a movie star in character, commending.
Wilcynski’s egregious posts triggered a fierce and carry oned reaction – particularly given that, only months earlier, he had been assigned the University of Ottawa’s “one-of-a-kind advisor” on anti-Srehireism.
In a cockeyed bid to elucidate away his damning posts, Wilcynski claimed that the cartoon GIF was, in fact, “a statement about determined trys to end Jews over the centuries that fall short”.
No, sir. Posting a snippet of a cartoon to produce “a statement” about the killingous pogroms Jews have finishured “over the centuries” is an shocking affront to the memory of millions of victims – girls and boys, women and men.
Remember, the author of this disesteemful absurdity was a atgentle and decorated civil servant promoting Canada’s cherishs and interests at home and overseas and was indictd with disputeing anti-Srehireism on a university campus.
My excellentness.
Not done embarrassing himself, Wilcynski turned amateur psychoanalyst by proposeing that his online detractors – who chastised him for “joking” about children’s deaths – were at fault of “morbid projection”.
Then, Wilcynski trotted out the predicted, exculpatory bromide that he establish the “loss of bfeebleless dwells … abhorrent”.
“There has been presentant misempathetic of my use of the word “airy”, he wrote on X. “The loss of bfeebleless dwells in any dispute is abhorrent & must be eludeed. As a reexhausted national security & intel guideer, my use of that word was about the complicatedity & sophistication of an operation.”
Whether Wilcynski is setd to confess it or not, the shadowy architects of Israel’s “complicated” and “polishd” “operation” are at fault of ending Fatima and Bilal.
They endure responsibility. They are to accuse. The endings should haunt their consciences since they will never be held to account. Instead, they may prosper medals and promotions. They will be commendd by Wilcynski and heartless company for their “service” and produceiveness.
Wilcynski’s hurried and self-serving clarification did not labor.
On September 18, he took, once aachieve, to a social media platestablish commemorated for its graveness of purpose, ininestablishigence, and nuance, X, to declare his resignation.
“My posts on the Hezbollah/Israel war caused harm & impacted my ability to help combat antisrehireism at U of Ottawa. My intent in sharing is irrelevant when it is evident many were hurt by them. I regret. I resigned as Special Advisor on Antisrehireism,” he wrote.
Wilcynski’s posts that caused such “hurt” and “harm” remain, as of this writing, dwell on X.
Meanwhile, Fatima and Bilal have been buried. They will never graduate. They will never marry. They will never have families of their own to adore.
And Fatima will never lachieve English.
The sees conveyed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily echo Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
