Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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what did you think feel and pray for in the days that followed october 7th i think the first feeling was that uh there's going to be a lot of death and destruction in gaza as a result right we always kind of see this where one israeli casualty leads to hundreds of palestinian casualties right so
It's a pretty familiar cycle in some ways, where there are daily transgressions against Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza, the checkpoints, the aggression on Masjid al-Aqsa, the settlements expanding, the stories of Palestinian death. And then you have rockets fired from Gaza, and that's when the Western press catches up and starts to cover it.
Israel responds with hellfire missiles, white phosphorus bombs, and the casualties are wildly disproportionate. And so I think that I wasn't surprised. I prayed for the people that I knew were going to bear the brunt of this outbreak, but the outbreak was predictable.
Yeah, go ahead.
Again, this was not surprising. This was very predictable. If you've been watching what's been unfolding, Before October 7th, 2021, Human Rights Watch puts out the report, Threshold Reached, Israel is an Apartheid State. Amnesty International 2022, The Crime of Apartheid, showing how all of the legal determinations of apartheid have been reached. the occupation is only getting more aggressive.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, is shot dead in 2022 in front of the world. The United States says initially that if it is shown that Israel was complicit or that Israel carried out the execution, then there will be consequences.
Of course, once it was shown that Israel was indeed responsible for the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, the United States did absolutely nothing. Shireen's funeral was attacked. The pallbearers were beaten. Her casket almost fell. And again, the world is watching. The aggression against Worshippers in Al-Aqsa is getting worse.
You have the flag march, the Jerusalem flag march, where extremist settlers are let loose and wild on Palestinians by the thousands chanting things like Muhammad is dead. We're going to murder you Arabs, all with the protection of the state with Israeli soldiers. And throughout this time, it's like something bad is going to happen. And then 2023 comes along.
You had 13,000 settler units in 2023, a plan of 13,000 settler units, the most in the history of the occupation, the most racist and extremist government, Israeli government that you have ever had. And people don't realize that in 2023 alone, over 600 Palestinians had already been killed. It just doesn't make Western headlines.
And so if you wonder why the American public sees this so much differently than the rest of the world, it's because American media shows the American public something so much different than what the rest of the world has shown. And so this was a pressure cooker. This was going to explode. It is extremely predictable. You've given people absolutely no hope.
And so I think that as we're watching that, you know, it's important for us to actually interrogate the ignorance that people have. of the Palestinian plight, the ignorance of the root causes of this violence, the ignorance of the occupation. And also ask yourselves, you know, why is it that Israel can violate every single international law on the books
have all these determinations and the United States keeps on issuing these inconsequential statements while also at the same time funding these aggressions. So it's like stop the settler violence. The United States will issue statement after statement, stop the settler violence. Stop the incursions on Masjid al-Aqsa. Stop violating the people in Jerusalem.
Stop trying to wipe out the Palestinian people. Stop openly saying that there is no two-state solution, that we will never allow a Palestinian state to be established. But at the same time, here's your $3 billion check. And if the United Nations
issues any sort of resolution against Israel, or if any international body tries to hold Israel accountable, the United States stands in the way of any accountability. It's important for us to ask why, and so I always tell people, read beyond the headlines, even now. With the backdrop of a genocide, over 30,000 people have been killed.
If you open the front page of most American mainstream sites, you will see stories about the hostages, the Israeli hostages. You will see stories about October 7th, but October 8th is missing. October 9th is missing. October 10th is missing. A hundred days of genocide are missing.
And you'll barely have a story that shows up every once in a while that is still very much so controlled by the Israeli propaganda machine. Because while Israel kills Palestinian journalists, it also makes sure that American journalists are only able to tell a certain story. They're only able to see Gaza from a certain perspective. They're only able to speak about Gaza from a certain perspective.
And this is well documented that they have to review their media tapes with Israel before they can publicize them. And so this is state propaganda at this point. The mainstream media and the United States government are in lockstep telling a very skewed story. And that is leading to a greater sense of frustration.
And I think the American public has been wronged as well by not knowing what's happening.
Absolutely. You can't disconnect Gaza from Palestine. You can't disconnect the West Bank from Palestine. You can't disconnect Jerusalem from Palestine. And you can't disconnect the very human story from the political plight. You interviewed Muhammad Al-Kurd, met him.
What did the world do when it saw the images of the Kurd household being taken over by a guy from Brooklyn or Long Island who just shows up and lays claim to their home? What did the world do when American settlers suddenly decided they could walk into historic Palestinian homes and throw people out of their homes. What did the world do?
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