1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

It is with a heart brimming with desperation and hope, that I pen down these words: ordinary they may seem, yet suffused with the urgency of a hundred thousand silenced voices. The time has come when silence serves as complicity, whilst the echoing cries of innocent children, women, and men reach us from the borders of Palestine. The cycle of violence that has been twirling its venomous tail since 1948, backed by the funding and arming of Israel by the United States needs to be ceased immediately, not tomorrow or the day after, but now. According to the Geneva conventions, all forms of genocide, ethnic cleansing, willful killing, and torture are counted as crimes against humanity. Yet, despite these firm definitions and unequivocal laws, there exists a horrifying gap between theory and practice, leaving the helpless civilians of Palestine at the relentless hands of this ongoing conflict. Fueling these human rights violations, undeniably, is the United States government that continues to provide Israel with arms and financial aid, rendering the United States inadvertently responsible for each civilian life lost in this relentless pursuit of power. This is an urgent plea, not of a politician or an academician, but of a simple man who cherishes the sanctity of human life and values the dignity of human existence more than the complexities of geopolitical strategies. It is the responsibility of every American citizen, every global civilian, to staunchly oppose this indirect funding and arming promulgating these atrocities. Our collective conscience ought to rise against the continuation of these heart-wrenching sights of unnecessary loss and despair. May humanity move us to action; may compassion guide our stances, and may peace finally breathe over the land oppressed for far too long.