Mourning Juliano and Vittorio

Our words are empty! How to mourn Vittorio and Juliano?

Don't tell me "The Mossad killed them" or the killers aren't us! That is only meant to make us feel better. To do damage control. Oh, our enemies did it. Must have. Because we are so beautiful we can never do something like this! Only if you've done your investigation and have evidence I will listen. Because I don't want us to feel better. Feeling better is betrayal. Blaming our shit on others will not make us cleaner. 

Don't tell me the murders are against "our customs and traditions." The sentence infuriates me. This is the politicians favorite sentence (I heard it from the PA, Hamas, Fida, and the People's party) which they use to "denounce" the killings: "It's not part of our customs and traditions." As if we all have one set of "customs and traditions" to go by! As if we are not divided, as if differences don't exist between us, as if our "customs and traditions" are a magical wand that we wave in the face of the killers to make them cower in disgrace and shame. As if it's enough to unify us. Keep waving! But don't be surprised if somebody else's version of "customs and traditions" eat up yours! Didn't they say that it's against "our customs and traditions" to have girls and boys act together in The Freedom theatre? Didn't Hamas want to ban UN summer camps because they allow kids to sing and dance, which is against "our customs and traditions"? Isn't women smoking Argeela in public against "our customs and traditions"? Isn't it "against our customs and traditions" to torture and shoot your brothers, sisters, and neighbors? And haven't we  been at it for years now? So stop fooling yourselves and fooling us! Instead, ask: Isn't it because Juliano's cultural and political project was also about questioning the sacred "customs and traditions" to create new values that he was not only killed but also not mourned the way he should have been? 

Don't tell me that the PA and Hamas acted "wisely" and that this is a conspiracy to undermine law and order. Resist, my esteemed politicians, at least till the bodies are cold, before you use the death of these men to score political points. Do us a favor once in your life and look in the mirror. Ask yourself: How did WE bring this about?

Don't try to make me feel guilty that I'm mourning those two when there are so many Palestinians getting killed everyday. "Is it because he's Jewish or Italian that his life is worth mourning?"  NO! It's because he's the "stranger" amongst us! It's because he's killed in my name. If you don't see this difference, then you don't see.  Weren't Juliano and Vittorio killed because they loved beyond the tribe? Shouldn't we honor their fatal love with some nontribal love or our own?

And don't say RIP. It sounds like an insult. What rest? What peace? There shall be no rest. Only rage!