The genocide in Gaza has been a trying time for people of conscience around the world.

The despair is overwhelming and the inaction from our politicians demoralizing.

But all of us can take action in whichever way we can, and whatever amount is sustainable.

A big trap we fall into is becoming politically conscious of a problem so much bigger than ourselves,

that we think we have to do all the work to solve it.

We do only have to do one person's work.

If you're a painter, paint. If you're a writer, write. If you're a speaker,

speak. What's most important is that you do something, anything, in any amount. As long as it

suits you and it's something you can keep doing. Have faith in the aggregate. Just have the

courage and the initiative to do your part.

This is the sentiment for my friend Khaled Alasid.

Khaled is a tech genius and a master at data mining, so he put his skills to work to create a website

called IsraelQuotes.com. It's a growing archive of sourced quotes from Israeli officials

and U.S. officials that expose Israel and its policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide

for all to see. Hello, my friend. Thank you so much for coming on the Empire Files podcast.

It's an honor to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Abby.

So, Khalid, you know, we go way back. We've known each other for a couple of years now.

And I was really excited to see that you started a new project on top of all the other stuff that you're already

doing amidst the genocidal onslaught in Gaza. A couple months ago, you initiated something

called Israel quotes. I think that this is a very crucial ongoing project that you've started compiling, just quotes from different Israeli officials just explicitly laying out genocidal intent. And it goes far beyond that. I mean, just completely insane quotes that are just, just speak to the dehumanization and how deep-seeded that is in Israeli society. Talk about this project, what compelled

you to start it and where you're at with it. And then we can get into some of these crazy quotes.

Yeah, absolutely. So IsraelQuotes.com did not start as a idea where I knew off the bat that I wanted to share this with everyone.

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