As I clear up after breaking fast with friends and family, the phone buzzes with an alert for a new WhatsApp message.

I check to see and find another one of the hundreds of ‘Support Gaza’ related forwarded message that are doing the rounds at the moment.

I apologise in advance and feel guilty even for thinking it, but I have to say as with all things after a while, the sheer amount of these messages are not creating the impact they need to any more. However, I eventually do get around to viewing this ‘Gaza related message’, it’s Jon Snow’s 'Personal Tribute to The Children of Gaza’, and boy did it wake me up from my inertia and creeping indifference.

Firstly, I’d like to thank you on behalf of all the layman Muslims all around the world.

I know your intention was not to act as a de-facto spokesman but to give an honest account on the current situation on the ground.

However us Muslims, we are desperate for anyone to represent our version of the events. We’ve been left stranded by the impotent Muslim leadership all around the world and are in the same situation as I guess a minor would feel like after both its parents are taken way.

In the absence of anyone willing to voice our frustrations on a public forum, we forever are clinging on in the faint hope that someone will come and tell the truth the way you have in your report.

The graphic report of the girl with the broken skull, your heart-breaking account of her Panda like eyes, a practical description of a densely populated Gaza with its young population and the inevitable casualties.

Succeeding in further highlighting the futility of the Israeli intention (publicly at least) to avoid civilian casualties. This report brings home the Gaza situation like nothing has in the past month of coverage.

Listening to your heartfelt words it occurred to me that it can’t be solely your responsibility to open the eyes of the world and someone needs to share the burden with you.

So I’ve come up with a cunning plan, it involves a bit of fibbing, but as I said we’re desperate.

With the conflict in the fourth week, I’m still to hear anything more than a sound bite from our esteemed leaders in the Middle East, but I’ve not lost hope because I’ve figured out a way to give them a gentle push.

As we often discover they seem more preoccupied in either fighting fellow Muslim Countries or creating trouble in them, all we have to do is make them believe the oppressors in Gaza are not really Zionists, but they are Shia Muslims, and I’m sure we’ll have another version of ISIS on the West Bank quicker than George Bush and Co could raid a Muslim Country.

Aah George Bush the liberator, he was always prepared to risk the life and limb of his own people to free the downtrodden in the world, particularly Muslims.

Especially if they were in strategically important Countries like Iraq or even Afghanistan. George and his sidekick Tony Blair may not be around any more but their successors being the Great Pillars of Western Democracy and the Social Guardians of the Free world that they are, are always willing to dive in.

All we have to do is spread the rumour that a Gas line has been found in the Gazan outskirts with enough in reserve to supply a continent. Watch the cavalry arrive before your ‘Hollywood sort’ can get a word in on the situation.

This brings me to the last lot we need to hoodwink to get a reaction out of them.

Our Selfless, Conflict-Hating, Peace-Loving Celebrities. Always willing to lend their face and efforts to international causes all over the world in particular Africa. Sudan, Somalia, Third World Debt all very worthwhile causes but not even a whimper on the current Gaza situation.

The silence is almost deafening. ‘Not on your watch hey Mr Clooney?’ Well this is happening on your watch. I suppose we shouldn’t be too judgemental, we all know you won’t remain an A-lister in Hollywood for long if you were to even utter a word that was even remotely considered sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. A bizarre suggestion that it is, but maybe declaring Palestine to be an African State could help. That way at least you may be able to voice an opinion publicly and keep your day job.

Beep Beep the phone vibrates with another Whatsapp message.

‘Be there tomorrow, Support Gaza Protest tomorrow 9am’ it says in the subject line.

I go to delete the message but the Girl with the Panda eyes flashes in front of my eyes and Jon Snow’s restrained yet sad voice rings in my ears and I finish reading the message, and set a reminder on my phone to wake up early and go to the protest.

Realistically I don’t know if my protesting will actually make a difference but what I do know is that it’s the likes of Jon Snow that make us believe that we can make a difference, so again Thanks Mr Snow.