We write about issues we care about, which compels addressing and expressing our emotions. This is often therapeutic, but I have plenty of half-written drafts that are too painful to finish. I struggle with ignoring or stifling my feelings, but it's impossible to process everything, and some topics are too much to bear.

Hopefully, writing helps to express your grief and release some pain, and it's a healthier option than drugs and alcohol, which a large cohort seems to prefer. I don't blame or judge them - we need escapism to cope with dystopia.

Israel isn't the global Jewish community's representative, but nations shape our identity. I distinguish a difference between people and their governments, but I empathize with the Jewish attachment to Israel.

The shameful exploitation of Nazi Germany's Jewish Holocaust to justify a war against Palestine sickens me, a non-Jew and undoubtedly, a punch to the inner gut for numerous Jews.

The layers of cruelty are too enormous to comprehend, and framing the conflict as Muslim versus Jew is every bigot, racist fuckheads wet dream. We must demand peace because this could spiral into something more insanely horrific.

Normalizing and accepting war as the only viable option will torture and kill all of us, and WTF future are we striving for? Are murder and suicide humanity's objectives? It's bewildering.