"Everyone will always have been against this" (quote)

 One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. -- Omar El Akkad

"First off, writing is the only thing I know how to do. It’s the only thing I’m halfway good at. I was in a situation where I was watching the worst thing I had ever seen in my lifetime. Not only was I being told by my elected representatives and my institutional representation that this was necessary and needed to continue, but I was also paying for it through my tax dollars. And I had to sit with the reality that in a very real way I was killing those kids. And so I retreated into — which has always been my first avenue of retreat — the page, writing." --

https://ca.yahoo.com/omar-el-akkad-western-hypocrisy-on-genocide-in-gaza-makes-us-complicit-in-death-and-destruction-of-palestine-213221248.html