Page 8 - Issue 19

plight of the Palestinian people, and my place
within it all is more unstable then its probably ever
been. I think that one of the things that haunts me
the most is that I know that I’m not doing enough
to change the reality around me and I’m not taking
action to get any closer either. I have all these
images of myself as a radical or a revolutionary, as
some great activist, but the reality is, I spend most
of my time smouldering at my computer screen or
yelling at my friends and housemates.

I find it hard living in a country where the
government announces lockdown after lockdown
but fails to provide its citizens with the necessary
means to see them out with their decency intact.
And I find it hard to live in a country where even
before the lockdown is officially announced the
public atmosphere is that nobody is going to stick
to it properly. Where the public faith in politicians
and the government is at an all time low and yet
we are still likely going to re-elect the same
corrupt,
criminal, racist
Prime Minister
who we’ve
been stuck with
for the last 12
years. I look at
the Left in this
country, which
I’d be
complimenting
to say is hanging Kvutsah Be’er, Azur
in there, and I
find it hard to see a way out. And I look at my