Absolutely. No disagreements here.

Tbh the world has failed Palestinians and it continues to fail them. This fact eats away at me and I find the lack of action is personally devastating to me. But I think that I'm only feeling a small fraction compared to Palestinians themselves. Maybe it's useful to frame what I'm feeling about the situation as a crash course in deep solidarity idk.

Ultimately we have to contain our need to see action lest it develop into adventurism. And this is coming from someone who suffers from crippling depression and who has to wrestle with a not-insignificant part of me whose overwhelming urge is to do an adventurism (doesn't help any that I have enough knowledge to achieve this, either.)

But individual actions almost invariably achieve very little. It's only when we act collectively and in a sustained way that we are able to achieve change. The task at hand has always been to build knowledge, build the movement, and build the party. Rallies aid in this by educating, agitating, and organising (as insignificant and insufficient as it may feel).

If we can direct this urgent need for things to be different towards being the most committed socialists and to contributing the most towards our organisations and parties (and towards being the most upstanding member of these that we are capable of being) then that's the best place to put all this energy.

We've gotta build the foundation before we can build the structure. I wish that we were further along than we are but the working class has always been in desperate circumstances and I try to remember that fact because if I historicise this experience in the context of the past then it reminds me that I'm just feeling the desperation more acutely but it has always been right there.

Idk. I don't have any real answers and I'm just rambling at you but I guess I just wanted you to know that I think about this a lot.