Written by Omar Al Omar
The mentalities of warmongers and pacifists split with the clash between Adam’s two firstborn sons. When Abel adhered to peace and tolerance (I am not extending my hand to you to kill you) towards breaking up the clash, Cain went to violence (so he willingly killed his brother, so he killed him and became one of the losers). Thus, the position of the European democracies towards the growing power of Hitler and his arrogance was characterized by tolerance and patience. It imagined that agreeing to occupy border areas would be better than confronting him. But she discovered too late that tolerance is the worst of the options, despite its virtuous beauty. In seasons of miscalculation in unfavorable circumstances, tolerance inevitably leads to fattening intolerance, so it goes beyond heating up hotbeds of tension to igniting war. The stories of Abel and Cain confirm the burning of war in souls and heads before the use of axes. Few read history to learn how to create the future!
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War, in its aggressive sense, is a tribal production. While the military institution is one of the components of the modern state. Despite the development of states and their peoples, they remain captive to tribal violence tinged with threads of barbarism. As in our current losing war, its parties measure the calculations of victory and defeat by the destruction and loss inflicted on the opposing side, including the facilities of society and the sources of its wealth. No one pays attention to the huge social losses on generations burdened with their suffering from infancy to adulthood. This is the state of our blatant inability to manage matters. Hemeti’s borders are nothing but the daughters of tribal violence. The history of Rapid Support is one of the chapters in lubricating intolerance.
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At the dawn of our revolution, replete with its peaceful equipment, we bet on replacing the barracks in our major cities with institutions of enlightenment and medicine, but in the context of delving into miscalculations regarding the foolishness of confronting violence with counter-violence, we replaced camps of tribal violence with parks and public squares. What semi-politicians and semi-intellectuals did not realize is that violence breeds violence and does not increase violence. The contract is complicated. No thinker among us inspired us that Japan and Germany emerged from the ruins of the crushing war as feared powers without resorting to violence or taking up arms. Nor did any of the television screen leaders remind us that the Soviet Union collapsed and its warehouses were piled with various types of destructive weapons.
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Perhaps in the biography of Al-Burhan and Hemedti there is a hint of the story of Abel and Cain, as much as it contains between them on the one hand and the National Congress on the other hand. Both of them are tinged with more than a little tolerance that leads to intolerance. They are both comic novels full of naivety to the point of negligence. Hemedti applies to what the late Jaafar Bakhit said about Jaafar Numeiri in the words of the Islamic Party (that is an idol that we made with our own hands). He is the creation of the conference, both its previous and subsequent parts. The proof is that he is the heir to the conference. The legitimate one, while the other is his disobedient son. Both of them did not listen to the advice of the thirty-fourth US President, Dwight David Eisenhower, to bring the war parties to the negotiating table. Certainly neither of them read the experience of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King in rejecting violence.
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As the German philosopher Georg Hegel concluded: “The only lesson we learn from history is that no one learns from history.” Many of our elites played the role of carrying firewood and pouring oil on the fire of war. But they did not join its teams and battalions! They did not take either position from moral standpoints. The unambiguous moral choice regarding our current war is to raise the call for peace. Standing against war is a rejection of destruction, obstruction, Displacement and fragmentation at the national level. Khomeini was more aware of the state and the people when he drank the “cup of peace poison” to end the eight-year war with Iraq, despite the feeling of defeat he felt. We made our own enemies out of the nature of our enmities, just as we ignited the war with our own hands.!
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This is only the first sin, as we delved into the swamp when we engaged in attempts to dress up the propaganda of dirty war as a moral veil with worn-out intellectual patches at times and patriotism at times. War is a suitable environment for all social epidemics. As Tolstoy said, “We fight without thinking.” War, by its nature, is a suitable environment for the spread of all social epidemics. The center of the issue is not who fired the first bullet, but rather who pushed the entire people to the extreme of violence! The war began with the dissipation of opportunities for social peace through various means of violence. No reformer or preacher warned us about the habit of the war-rich people to mobilize the poor in order to expand the war and then single them out by dividing the spoils before burying the bodies of the victims!
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Warmongers are waving – what a paradox – slogans of national dignity over the ruins of public and private institutions. But they do not care about the dignity of the displaced in circles of displacement and asylum in homes or homelands to which they do not belong. They are also not concerned about the eyes of children whose language of familiarity has been disrupted, away from the playgrounds and the paths of daily trips to schools. Yes, these and those are fleeing free death, but what low return do they receive or expect in return for the feeling of a temporary life in an alternative, temporary place? They are all victims of Abel and Cain, where tolerance led. To borrow intolerance. This was the choice of semi-politicians and semi-intellectuals when they took a seat watching the destruction of social peace at the hands of the state of extremism and oppression.
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Our Abel and Cain exchanged offering sacrifices in the name of the homeland sometimes, dignity sometimes, democracy often, and peace often. When the people accepted from either of them, they each exchanged the roles of Abel and Cain. And when the people were convinced of the performance of either of them, the people became firmly convinced that they were thrown together into hell. And more than that. We are certain that neither of them will return us to our lost paradise.
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