Le temps calme (The Quiet Time)

זמן השקט

Te Wa Ataahua

Every hour, the clock ticking per second, cars, trucks and motorcycles go past along the main highway route, dogs pant through a long hot day, and every news brings war stories about Palestine versus Israel, Ukraine versus Russia and other countries to the television. Every reporter speaks one language to another, gibbering every word about their witness in the war-torn countries makes no sense to me.

New Zealand – new parties of the Government as a coalition: National with ACT’s and NZ First verse Māori communities over the Te Tiriti (The Treaty)/Te Triti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) went into uproar and upsetting many hundreds and thousands of te iwi Maori (Māori people).

Kia rongo tuatahi nga mema o te Whare Paremata o Aotearoa i te reo o to tatou iwi. (Let the New Zealand House of Representatives members first hear our people’s voice.)

תן לנציג הישראלי של הממשלה לשמוע קודם כל את קולו של עמנו ומיליוני פלסטינים לא יוכלו להתעלם ממנו.

(Let the Israeli representative of the Government hear first our people’s voice and millions of Palestinian people can not ignore it.)

As myself, I am a deaf advocator and think of silent messages from many people described by speaking, showing us pictures and videos and their expressions of hatred, anger, remorse, and salvation signs. On the other hand, less news from many people far away and in New Zealand delivers good news and happiness, and showing expressions on faces often makes no sense, or I cannot work out their message.

We see with our eyes, while Blind people (low vision impaired) use their ears in the environment they are exposed to daily. It can be calming, violent, threatening, whispering, or empty silent sounds.

A couple days ago, the day of the Holocaust Memorial was January 27. We came home via Hillcrest, Hamilton, to Eureka, Waikato and were stopped at the intersection of Wairere Drive and Naylor Street. We noticed a medium-sized group of protesters, and each protester held their mother’s homeland flags – Palestine and Africa.

Flags were displayed in the air, banners with many words displayed, and their faces expressed with shouting, anger and demanding.

Children and young adults of their parents were there.

Should anyone in the countries fly the Palestine flag to acknowledge we or anyone to support Palestinians on November 29?? The Palestinian flag will be flown on November 29, the United Nations International Day of solidarity with the Palestinian people.