We are living in a time where an entire people are being starved while the world watched. History will one day write about these years in its pages, and the question will come back to us: what did we do? Did we turn away, scroll past, stay quiet? Or did we speak, even if our voices were small?
Silence will not be forgotten. Neither will courage. One day, when our children ask us what it was like to live through this chapter, what story will we be able to tell them?
The ratification by the British government of the Balfour Declaration on the establishment of the Israeli state on Palestine land in 1917 is the main reason for the tragedy of the Palestinian people throughout history.