Omar Suleiman
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This is very personal to me because this is happening now.
What I anticipate, and this is what America did, this is what Nelson Mandela actually predicted with the United States.
What I anticipate is that 10 years from now, 20 years from now, every American will say, how could we have supported this?
And this was terrible.
And we'll pay symbolic homage to the Palestinian cause.
But there are people now that are clinging on for dear life, access to their places of worship, access to their generational homes.
Right now, there are children that are in detention, and there's a bill in Congress to just stop.
I mean, wherever you stand on this issue, child detainment, child detainment, child detention should be a red line, right?
Congresswoman Betty McCollum has put this bill on the floor of Congress.
She can't even get that passed, right?
Just to at least censure child detainment by the IDF.
People need to look into this deeper.
They need to consider the human element of this and consider the urgency of it as well.
With this new regime, it's only going to, unfortunately, get much worse in the immediate term, and so we have to do something about it.
All right, well, let me tell you from now, first and foremost, the first part, because I don't want to lose the first part of your conversation.
Is it psychologically stressful?
good work will always be rewarded.
And that doing the right thing will always be rewarded eventually.
You're able to weather that storm quite a bit.
So your wife told you.