It sounds like you do good work. Unfortunately, as much as this work may be necessary, it's treating the symptom and not the problem. The work that needs to be done is going back to a country where we have a thriving middle class, where people don't end up homeless due to medical bankruptcy, and where they don't turn to drugs to dull their pain. Decades ago, most communities had hospitals where the mentally ill could go or be taken for help.I'd be interested to hear how those individuals getting so worked up about the Palestinian humanitarian crisis (NOT saying there isn't one or that it should be ignored!) are helping the humanitarian crisis in our own cities... the homeless. The hungry. The opioid horror. Are you out there pounding the streets to help people HERE? I have... I decided years ago that I'm not just going to be a keyboard warrior clutching my pearls and letting my bleeding heart splash all over town. I'd love to hear stories about humanitarian aid that isn't just words on a keyboard.
I have FED the hungry... not just called out indignantly that they should be fed.
I have done crisis counseling and thankfully talked a few people out of some really nasty stuff.
I have handed out coats, shoes, and scarves.
I have held and cuddled addicted newborns.
I have SEEN appreciation in those eyes.
These days, they have only the streets for shelter and drugs for comfort. I have no hope that we will see the country I describe; our politicians have succeeded in splitting this country into the wealthy and the working class. I believe it will continue deep into a Dickens-like dystopia as the wealthy continue to require more and more and the working class works for less and less.