What’s goin’ on? There’s a riot going on

Paintings by Tarek Chemaly

When Marvin Gaye issued his seminal album “What is going on on” in 1971, Sly and the Household Stone launched their very own “There is a riot goin’ on” on that very same yr. Which brings us again to the Center East. The cursed area which appears to know no respite.

I refer you to this passage from “Beyrouth Mayhem-ek” which you’ll find right here:

… And the bombings over Beirut intensified, and I discovered myself…
Unusual how some statements appear ageless and dateless, as if their solely reference is solely their very own being. The above may have taken place anytime between 1975 and 1990, then sporadically – but recurrently – after that, though selecting 1996 and 2006 would give a greater statistical alternative of be useless on. Excuse the pun. It appeared the identical as saying “the solar rises”, a benign assertion with no implications in any way within the grand scheme of issues, a mechanic, repetitive act – slightly like intercourse when the preliminary impulse of the invention of the opposite’s physique has gone.

Change Beirut with Gaza and also you get the drift.