My own heart was in turmoil. It is not easy to tread the line of empathy, to feel passion for both sides….There is a limit to which the human soul can stomach human atrocities and keep going. On the other hand. On the other hand, turning away from from distressing footage taken by Hamas terrorists, by surveillance cameras, and by people running for their lives or sheltering from missiles meant turning away away from their pain. I couldn’t do it…

The above is by Joanna Chen, a British-born writer and literary translator and resident of Israel. I regret not having captured the reference.

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I just realized that I’ve been missing many blogs I want to follow by not looking in “Social.”