I’m sure it wasn’t fun. If I was arrested in Lebanon, I’d spend the whole damn time apologising for the shit my country does. Also fuck you your dad was in the air force.
I’m sure it wasn’t fun. If I was arrested in Lebanon, I’d spend the whole damn time apologising for the shit my country does. Also fuck you your dad was in the air force.
I volunteered on a project that initially was going to have Israeli and Lebanese people volunteering alongside me, until the Lebanese government arrested the Lebanese chapter’s chairman and made it clear to him that the organisation would absolutely not be promoting peace between Israeli and Lebanese individuals. The Israeli decided he wouldn’t come so that the Lebanese delegation could, but it turned out the whole situation was lose-lose because all but one of the Lebanese were dickheads and the Israeli guy had IDF brainworms.
Being a nonprofit businessman sounds so thrilling. I’m always chuffed when you share your little diaries.
This isn’t actually part of my job, this is my “free time” volunteering. It’s an international peace education organisation that works to promote intercultural cooperation and understanding through experiential learning - basically we play games with 11-18 years olds that have messages like “war bad” and “wealth inequality bad”. The organisation attracts a lot of libs but so much of the message of the projects is straight up socialist that it’s easy to give people that little push they need to realise capitalism is the source of the problems we raise.