Belal Khaled

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There was a guy.

I was in Minneapolis.

It was minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit.

So, you know, minus 30 Celsius.

It's freezing.

It's beyond freezing.

Your fingertips start going numb after like two, three minutes, even if you have gloves on.

And there was this guy who came up to me and he had a Palestinian flag at the protest, at the anti-ice protest.

And he asked, I felt a little embarrassed to bring this to this protest because I thought, you know, maybe this is not relevant.

Maybe this is not, you know, about what's going on here.

And I tried to explain to him and everyone else that was listening at the time that these issues are united.

These issues are actually quite similar to one another, both the tactics of the occupational forces.

but also the atrocities that will only continue to grow.

And what I mean by that is not just the imperial boomerang that Gaza is used as a laboratory for experiments of heinous war crimes that will then inevitably be used on the domestic front.

But also that Minneapolis is a line of defense against other states and Palestinians are actually a line of defense against colonial powers behaving in this way.

So when Palestinians are fighting for their lives, fighting for their existence, they're not just fighting for themselves, but they're fighting for everybody else as well.

Yeah.

No, absolutely.

Thank you.