Having grown up in Cyprus, I have seen what division and partition can do to a population. The island is no stranger to refugees, war, division and suffering. Watching the atrocities that have been going on for decades in a region just south of our shores has led me to question why our government has never stood up for people who face similar geopolitical situations, but to a much more inhumane extent.
Studying the history of the Middle East and subsequently working in Brussels, I cannot help but maintain the same moral question marks in my brain. Why are we so inactive at a time when genocide is committed in Gaza, horrendous human rights violations taking place in the West Bank, and war threatens our close neighbours in Lebanon?