There are times in history when neutrality is not an option. Where silence is not a sign of equanimity, but of synergy. Where "I don't get involved" equals "I watch the carnage and look away". But how? A genocide is taking place in the 21st century and we are to pretend not to know, not to know, not to see, not to hear?
History writes. And we, in the today that we have been given with freedom, are called upon to decide which side of it we will stand on. Beautiful Kefalonia, which knows pain and destruction, is present once again and joins its voice with those who refuse to remain silent. This Sunday, 15 June, the Vallianou Square in Argostoli will be filled with people who will join their voices to the global river of flowers that is brewing in Gaza.
What is the #MarchToGaza that everyone is talking about?
A global wave of solidarity is rising. Citizens from every corner of the Earth are deciding to take a stand where the powerful hesitate. Thus was born #MarchToGaza - the international march for humanity and dignity.
A global caravan of solidarity, independent of parties, governments, ideologies and interests. A movement of people who have chosen to stand up where the state mechanisms are inert. Because when states fail, it is the people who must intervene.
Since yesterday, 12 June, 2,500 people from 36 countries and five continents have been gathering in Cairo to start the march to Al Arish, on the Sinai coast, and from there they will walk almost 50 kilometres to the Rafah border, on the outskirts of Gaza. Among them is the Greek mission, the third largest internationally, with 205 members.
This march aims to break the blockade of the Palestinian enclave, as the sailing ship Madleen of the Freedom Flotilla attempted to do.
Madleen has travelled for all of us. Now it's our turn.
In particular, a few days earlier, the small sailing boat "Madleen" carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was violently hijacked by Israeli forces, who drove it into an Israeli port. The 12 people on board - people of international standing, from different professional backgrounds, with a common cause - openly denounced this act as a kidnapping in international waters. Among them, the famous Swedish activist Greta Tunberg, who once again raised her voice against the hypocrisy of the powerful.
You may have stopped 12. We're coming in thousands!
Argostoli could not be absent from this race. The island, which has already sent images of the protest in Myrtos with the giant Palestinian flag and the slogan "Stop Genocide", will give its presence in Vallianou Square on Sunday at 20:00.
Because - to put it as simply as possible - there is no place for "neutrality" in this story.
Either with humanity or with barbarism.
Either with life or with death.
Choose!
All eyes now on Gaza.
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