“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

On a cold Tuesday morning, these were the words our nation woke up to. Maybe you saw it brushing your teeth, or trekking up the Slope. Maybe you didn’t see it at all. It came as a surprise to me that when I brought up President Trump’s recent “Truth” Social post to my club, many people had no idea what I was talking about. 

It was just like any other Tuesday. Students crowded in Temple of Zeus cafe, talking over coffee about what they did over spring break. Our president had threatened genocide in the early hours of the morning, but people had prelims to study for, LinkedIn posts to make for their new internships and meetings for their startups and project teams. 

All the while, bombs fell on Lebanon and Iran. I awaited the 8 p.m. deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz with a weird, quiet dread, knowing there was nothing I could do besides wait. Is this the sort of society we live in now? One where our ‘president’ claims he will wipe out an entire country, and nobody cares? I was filled with an overwhelming relief when the news came out that a two-week ceasefire had been brokered between the U.S. and Iran. 

On April 8, Israel launched more than 100 air strikes across Lebanon, on residential areas and a funeral. In the span of 10 minutes, my homeland experienced what can only be described as absolute hellfire. And the world does not call this terrorism, because surely Israel must be defending itself when it kills over 250 people in a........

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