What’s Happening in Palestine is Systematic Genocide
And the only solution is, and can ever be, non-violence.
As if enough had not already been done; as if enough pain had not already been endured; as if enough lives hadn’t already been mercilessly taken… what’s happening currently in Palestine is even more heartbreaking news to add to the list, leaving many of us feeling helpless as we watch Israel continue to wage its genocide on the Palestinians, with most of the world complicit in its actions.
Over fifty years ago, Israel ripped the remaining Palestinian territories away from the hands of their desperate people — from those who were still clutching on to the last remaining parts of their homeland with all their might. It has been over fifty years since the occupation of Palestine’s remaining lands by the State of Israel, so why are Palestinian lives still being destroyed today and why still has no peace solution yet been found?
Growing up and being educated in England, I had honestly never even heard of Palestine until I was 17. Israel, yes. Palestine? No. After all, Western education teaches young, impressionable minds the history it wants them to believe — rarely the truth.
It was only in my 20’s that I really started to explore the story of Israel/Palestine further, and to this day, each…
