Look, we are talking about the war in Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, the truce (which just 24 hours later is already breaking down); and we talk about the price of oil and the stock markets… Well, and about Trump, well, we don’t talk about Trump. And do you know what we’re just not talking about? Of the dead.
We have talked a lot about how the price of gasoline and fertilizers and mortgages and medicines are going to rise, but about deaths? How little we talk about deaths in this war.
And people don’t stop dying. That’s what wars have. But we hardly talk about the dead. We barely see them. In the last few hours alone, since the truce that is no longer clear whether it is still in force is supposed to have begun, Israeli fighters have dropped 160 bombs in 10 minutes. 10 deadly minutes in Lebanon. 250 dead and a thousand injured that are collapsing hospitals.
And Tehran responds to the bombings of Lebanon with attacks on the infrastructure of Gulf countries. Oh, and the Strait of Hormuz is still not open. What a truce, huh? Full of bombs and doubts. But wait, I was going to talk to you about the dead.
In Iran, since February 28, some 3,600 Iranians, half of them civilians, have died in bombings, according to the BBC. This is without counting the Iranians that the ayatollah regime continues to kill or brutally imprison, because the ayatollah regime is still there. That has not changed with this war.
What has changed is that the Gulf countries that were previously perceived as an oasis of stability are no longer so. More than 30 people have been killed in Iranian missile and drone attacks against those Gulf Arab states. And 24 people have died in Israel and the occupied West Bank. It is more difficult to keep track of those who continue to die in Gaza due to Israeli attacks because since that other ceasefire we stopped counting. But that was another war, another truce.
Moral?
What an uncertain ceasefire!
