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Aug 26
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How You Should Eat While Gaza Starves | ...

YAQEEN INSTITUTE
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What does it mean to eat and enjoy food while our brothers and sisters are dying because they're being denied a basic human need? Dr. Omar Suleiman looks at the morality of eating while keeping Gaza's suffering close to heart. 
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