Garrison Davis

And I remember that I had many Palestinian, like Palestinian-Venezuelan classmates, and they were protesting both, right?

So they had Palestinian flags and they had Venezuelan flags, and they were protesting for both peoples.

So...

You know, that's like an example whenever people say, like, try to divide and, you know, say like, oh, like the Maduro is like pro-Palestine, whatever I think of my friends in school, where they were like, no, actually, we're Palestinian Venezuelans, and we don't like what's going on in either place.

So because we do have a very big Middle Eastern population, again, many Palestinians, many Lebanese people who are not unaware of what has been going on in the Middle East.

Right.

So that's also something to be added to the conversation is, you know, when we talk about these things like they're not isolated and precisely because we're not isolated.

That's why we should, like you said, like be more in support of the people rather than the states.

Right.

Yeah.

I want to bring up like that little thing.

bit of like that little memory that I had because I just remember the image of it of my friends doing that so yeah it's very similar in a sense I guess to like I think a lot about how the Assad regime used Palestinian people right like it would constantly talk about fucking solidarity with Palestine and it had all these tanks and all these guns and all these planes and bombs and

And it turned them all on its own people.

It didn't use its state power to liberate Palestine.

It would have been destroyed by the IDF if it did, I imagine.

But it used its state power to kill its own people.

It is so frustrating that we saw that happen and the world still allows people to tokenize the Palestinian people, right?

And to use them as a shield against the oppression of their own people.

I think a lot of people will be thinking or listening and being like, well, I haven't really heard from Venezuelan voices.

They might not know any people from Venezuela.