The Closure of the Strait of Hormuz: A Dangerous Turning Point

The Iranian parliament’s approval to close the Strait of Hormuz sends a chilling message to the world. This narrow passage, through which nearly 20% of global oil flows, is not just a regional chokepoint — it is a lifeline of global trade and stability.

While headlines focus on retaliatory bombings and political threats, the real danger lies in the deeper consequences: a potential spiral of economic collapse, military escalation, and human suffering.

If leaders like Trump respond with more aggression, sanctions, or military buildup, we edge closer to a conflict none of us want — a conflict driven not by necessity, but by power and pride.

But in all this noise, we must not forget:

The ones who suffer most are not in palaces or war rooms.

They are in homes, schools, hospitals.

They are families, children, refugees — people like me.

I’m just one voice. And I often feel powerless.

I wish I could sit at the same table with the ones making these decisions and ask — not in anger, but in grief:

“How can you keep choosing destruction?”

My people in Gaza have lived under bombs and blockade for 77 years. We don’t need more weapons in the sky.

We need leaders who choose justice.

We need people around the world to speak.

We need peace — real peace.

I’m tired. Tired of watching cruelty become strategy.

But even in my exhaustion, I know this:

Staying human in a world like this is a kind of resistance.

So I will keep writing.

I will keep hoping.

And I will keep believing that one day,

the voices of compassion will be louder than the engines of war.

الله غالب

Fares Abulebda