Are You Tired yet? A quick reminder: This needs a lot of patience; keep the morale high! Norman Finkelstein, a political activist whose primary focus has been on the long-going Palestinian ethnic cleansing, especially the one in Gaza, and the politics of the holocaust, said in a recent interview that the “question of Gaza was disappearing from the public stage” adding that he himself has given up hope. Now it’s not a question of Gaza anymore, it’s a moral stand about Palestine as a whole. At the time of writing this article, it has been 62 days since the beginning of this massacre. We all watched as the atrocities unfolded live in front of our eyes. people lost their homes, their most valuable possessions, their loved ones, and their lives. That feeling of helplessness and hopelessness that I am sure some of us might be feeling is nothing compared to the 75+ years of terror that the Palestinians had to and still are enduring. The scenes we have seen this past month have been beyond horrific. Why isn’t anyone doing anything?? How many more lives does this “war” have to claim till they deem it enough?? Those are questions I am sure a lot of us have asked ourselves. That sadness turned into anger. That feeling that you want to do something, anything, but all you can do is watch. Watch from the comfort of your own house, having the privilege to close your phone and go about your day. But how? How can we smile and move on and live life like nothing is happening? Those feelings turn into a kind of helplessness that leads to abandon, but I am here to urge you to speak. That’s all they ever asked of us.
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