There are people who try to end wars. Others at least try to ignore them for a few hours. And then there is apparently someone who has been trying to organize a summer festival in southern Damascus for two years.
No political summit. No peace plan. Just a barbecue. A few crates of Coke, Fanta, and Mezzo Mix. Maybe a TV for some football. Two to three hundred people, some peanut flips, Ferrero Rocher chocolates, and Babybel cheese. In short: a desperate attempt to pretend, for one evening, that the world hasn't completely gone mad.
The guest list was impressive. Truly inclusive. Mulomo, Gaza Günther, Saudi Achin, even Nathan Yahudi and some Trump supporter. Apparently, the whole thing was supposed to be a kind of Middle Eastern version of a garden party. A table, a few plastic chairs, maybe a discussion about Power Rangers instead of missiles.
A naive idea, admittedly.
Because every time the planning is halfway complete, suddenly half the area is on fire again. Rockets here, explosions there, boom boom, summer festival canceled. The grill stays cold, the TV stays dark, and somewhere a guy sits in front of a PlayStation and realizes that the real world is now programmed worse than any GTA level.
Just imagine: While sirens are wailing somewhere again, there are probably hundreds of liters of Mezzo Mix sitting around and nobody's giving it a second thought. 200 liters of soft drink. A logistical masterpiece of optimism.
The tragedy is almost absurd. People who simply wanted to have a barbecue are once again reminded that they live in a region where even a summer festival is geopolitically unstable.
The shisha tobacco is ready. The snacks too. Maybe next year. Unless someone decides to serve rockets instead of pineapples by then…
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