The ceasefire is not an act of goodwill
Caldwell Manners
January 17, 2025
As I scrolled through the news about the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, I came across this part of a poem from Gaza: “When a
As I scrolled through the news about the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, I came across this part of a poem from Gaza: “When a
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