One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This- Omar El Akkad

This book is written by Omar ElAkkad, an Egyptian American journalist. The cover tells it all, really. It's a bluntly real book that alternates between scenes of destruction and disaster in Gaza, with surreal moments in the author's life, with commentary about politics and journalism in today's world. We travel with him back in time as a child in the Gulf and his views on the West back then, and how disillusioned he becomes after moving to Canada and the US. He talks about his job from behind the scenes, in the field in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Gaza. He shows the cracks within the journalist communities between the unsaid pact to remain neutral and those who want to speak up. The hypocrisy of politics in the US where ideals of freedom and equality are easily done away when faced with a threat to preservation of power. The rift between them and humanity is exposed and has never been more clear than seeing the genocide in Gaza. One day, everyone will look back and say they we were against the genocide. This author, and all of us, are waiting for that tomorrow to come.