On idle talk and genocide in Gaza
For 15 months, meaningless statements and idle talk kept the genocide in Gaza going. I could not imagine anyone saying: “Hey, I’ll work hard and be good and sacrifice everything to skip all this empty talk.” Now I can. Remembering and reliving my past as we watch the rawest forms of power exercised on the Palestinian people, I am once again brought to that moment when “tree” was not a tree and I could not string two words together even if you had me at gunpoint. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency’s budget for “sustainable peace” has been significantly reduced in just a few years, especially for the MENA region. We must not stop demanding justice and respect for Palestinian rights.” “Words, words, words,” I hear the ghost of Shakespeare on the breath of my late teacher, and wonder, is it nobler “to suffer those slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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