📣 Pep speaks out

“It’s so painful what we see in Gaza. It hurts all my body,” said Guardiola.

“Let me be clear — it’s not about ideology. It’s not about I’m right and you’re wrong. Come on, it’s just about the love of life. About the care of your neighbour. Maybe we think that we can see the boys and girls of four years old being killed with a bomb or being killed at the hospital — which is not a hospital anymore — and think it’s not our business. Yeah, fine. We can think about that. It’s not our business, but be careful. The next one will be ours. The next four-, five-year-old kids will be ours. Sorry that I see my kids Maria, Marius and Valentina every morning since the nightmare started in Gaza, and I’m so scared.”

“Maybe this image feels far away from where we are living now, and you might ask what we can do,” he added.

“There’s a story I’m reminded of. A forest is on fire. All the animals live terrified, helpless. But the small bird flies back and forth to the sea, back and forth carrying drops of water in this little beak.“A snake laughs and asks, ‘Why bro? You will never put the fire out.’ The poor bird replies, ‘Yes, I know’. ‘Then why do you do it again and again?’, the snake asks once again. ‘I’m just doing my part’, the bird replies for the last time.

“The bird knows that he won’t stop the fire but it refused to do nothing. In a world that often tells us that we are too small to make a difference, that story reminds me that the power of one is not about the scale, it’s about choice. About showing up, about refusing to be silent or still when it matters most.”