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	<title>genesgrill &#187; palestine</title>
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		<title>War and how I matter</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[I demand! Act now!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is very easy to put yourself in your comfortable bathroom slippers and tell yourself &#8220;I cannot make a difference&#8221; or &#8220;I do not matter&#8221;. I did think the same way until yesterday. I happened to land up in a Israel-Palestine conflict talk, about how the youth can actually make a difference in the world. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is very easy to put yourself in your comfortable bathroom slippers and tell yourself &#8220;I cannot make a difference&#8221; or &#8220;I do not matter&#8221;. I did think the same way until yesterday. I happened to land up in a Israel-Palestine conflict talk, about how the youth can actually make a difference in the world. Trust me, this wasn&#8217;t planned because I am the first person to back out of anything to do with protesting or taking a stand in a war, and also the fact that Arab political problems do not bother me. I actually went there for socializing!</p>
<p>It was going out to be a half an hour discussion. But eventually turned out to be a 2 hour hardtalk. All I can recall is the angry youngster, who I thought was insane, yelling at everybody and trying to make a point. (Turns out that he speaks on Al-Jazeera very often!). And also that I did not understand the half the conversation. But the one thing I learnt at the end of it was that if us, educated youth from different countries, do not stand up for human rights or try to protest or make a difference, no one will. At the end of the day, our voice will not be lost in the noise around us. It will be heard and will matter! But that&#8217;s if we go together. One person will fail drastically, if he doesn&#8217;t have hundred&#8217;s by him to support the cause. United we stand, divided we fall makes a lot of sense to me here.</p>
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