There is a comfort to it, and also an awkwardness. Comfort because the words are earnest, the solidarity almost unbearably meaningful. Awkward because the scale of what many are enduring is too large to be captured in those words.
The calamities tearing apart our nations have closed the distances between us. At the heart of it all is Palestine - an open trauma that haunts interactions.
It's always our leaders who want to fight, never the people. Wherever it is, it feels like one war, the causes of which are complex, but the consequences for those experiencing it are simple.
Many countries – Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Syria – are either divided by low-grade rumbling conflicts, or struggling through humanitarian crises. The tolls of the past few years are staggering.
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