Birds of caution

In the cautious birds, we live the event through children, and what a perspective it is, for children — contrary to the stereotypical image — are a strong mirror of the event, rather they are the event itself, as they express it with greater innocence and spontaneity than adults, even if they do not appear so. And this is what we see now in Gaza, where children play the main role in the tragedy of the injustice inflicted upon them. In the story of the cautious birds, they enter the world of children and follow their footsteps, their lives, and their feelings in harsh and exceptional circumstances surrounding them. So we drown in the tragedy of the adults, or to put it as its author likes to call it, the comedy, because according to him, the tragedy ends with loss, and the Palestinian cause is not over and cannot end with loss. The story begins with a dazzling fantasy, of a conscious child before birth, while in his mother’s womb, narrating what happens outside, and trying to push himself into birth, he is the hero of the story. The small one, as the text calls him, and he will remain the small one even after he grows up. In a house that is just one room, half of it a cave and the other half built of mud and straw, the small one was born. Since he was in his mother’s womb, he has been in love with the sound of birds, and when he saw them, they captivated him throughout his life, those creatures capable of flying and singing.