Why did you leave the rooster alone?

Should the millions of displaced Ukrainians have stayed in their homeland, resisting the invaders, or else they do not deserve this homeland, which mourns the danger of losing its freedom? I think that the future Ukrainian patriotic poet, now five years old, holding her father's hand at the Polish border, will write in half a century, a poem with implicit blame: Why did you take the dog and leave the rooster alone, Dad?

To make the house feel comfortable, my daughter.. Houses die without their residents.

It is noticeable that many displaced Ukrainians carried their dogs and cats with them, and did not leave them alone, and this is a right and a moral duty for the displaced towards their pets.

More than three million people have been displaced from Ukraine to neighboring countries so far, and it is expected that they will soon reach five million, and I believe that if their Russian brothers use their military machine with all its weight, with indiscriminate bombing aimed at spreading panic and chaos, as they did in Grozny and in Syrian cities , with hundreds of thousands of air raids, which they began to wave to Kharkov, Kiev and others, the number of displaced people will double, and may reach ten million, despite daily meetings and press conferences that follow the situation directly, in the capitals of neighboring Europe, in Washington and the United Nations, and announcing every A few hours about increasing military and economic support to Ukraine, with unprecedented generosity, and tightening sanctions on Russia, which affected even cats, athletes, musicians, Russian literature, vodka and caviar. And basically to weaken their economy, which is asIt seems the primary goal that has become in the sights of America and its allies, and not to stop the bleeding of Ukrainian, Russian and mercenary blood.

Millions are displaced, and there is no blame on them for this, despite the fact that the area of ​​Ukraine is about 600,000 square kilometers, that is, it constitutes twenty times the area of ​​historical Palestine, and more than three times the area of ​​Syria, and the war is far from the countryside, and Russia itself opens safe roads for those who wish to Entry into its territory More than 260 thousand Ukrainians have already entered Russia so far, they are treated with no less kindness than those who have taken refuge in other neighboring countries. Many Europeans and Arabs were and still blame the Syrians and Palestinians before them, “Why did you not stay in your country to defend it?” Some of the idiots, the outliers, or the arrogant, among the Palestinians and the Syrians themselves, went to say: they deserve what is happening to them, they should have stayed in Syria and before that in Palestine at all costs. These ignore the right of the Arab human being to survive in his spirit, and to protect his family from death, especially when he is a civilian confronted by a barbaric enemy who does not recognize any laws, neither in war nor in peace, and they prefer that he be burned in a Russian, American, ISIS or regime raid, in order to gain a say. We regret the civilian casualties.” The Ukrainians have so far been given more than thirteen billion dollars to support their steadfastness, and in these particular days, the European Union refused to pass aid worth 214 million dollars to the Ramallah Authority, at the request of the Hungarian representative in the European Union, alleging the presence of incitement materials against Israel in the curricula. Palestinian education! As for the movements that still declare that they are resisting and will resist, they are on the terrorist list, deprived of any sympathy for them and their blood is shed.

If the advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons that entered Ukraine this month entered the Gaza Strip or Beirut when it was besieged in 1982 or to the Palestinian camps and cities in 2000, we would see Israel threatening to go nuclear unless the war stopped immediately. As for the poet whose poem bears an implicit blame for his father, with his seemingly childish question: Why did you leave the horse alone, father? I say: If our fathers had received a tenth of the support that the Ukrainians obtained, they would not have left a horse, a rooster, an ox, not even a single cockroach, Mahmoud Salim al-Darwish.