The situation in Israel right now literally brings me to tears, and makes me want to scream in frustration all at once. I see so much enthusiasm about the embassy move and so much apathy about the violence and humanitarian crisis less than 40 miles away. By my moral code, it is never okay to kill other people under any circumstances, unless strictly in self defense (and I mean like, this person is literally coming up to you or your loved one with a life threatening weapon, individually). There is absolutely no reason that soldiers should be firing into an unarmed crowd. But what is even sadder is that this is not an isolated incident at all. This is happening everywhere. These cycles in history repeat themselves, and you're right, a little check mark next to a box once every four years does not fix it. Apathy does not fix it.

Beautiful post. Very thought provoking.