Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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James Baldwin wrote about how Israel was created as an extension of United States policy to be a colonial entity at the gates of the Middle East and to function essentially as a military base out there and as a means of extending its policy throughout the Middle East. And it has functioned as such. The United States is not an honest peace broker. It never has been an honest peace broker.
The United States has never shown any meaningful inclination towards peace, has guarded and protected Israel from international accountability, has made Israel invincible. The United States is not just responsible at the governmental level for The genocide, it's responsible for letting it get to this point in the first place. We have funded that arsenal.
We've given them the most sophisticated weapons in the world to test on the most desperate population in the world. We've given them the weapons. It's been bipartisan. We have issued at most inconsequential statements of condemnation, but at the same time stopped any international body of law from actually holding it accountable.
So the United States at this point, unfortunately, has rightfully lost all credibility. It should remove itself. from this because it is not an honest peace broker. I think Americans are probably sick of us paying for wars in general.
I think Americans are probably sick of our tax dollars going to funding a genocide while we have a rise of homelessness and income disparity here in the United States. I think that Americans probably don't like that we're making ourselves so deeply unpopular in the world because of Israel's actions. So in the immediate moment, make the stop.
The United States could have had a ceasefire a long time ago. The United States could have ended this genocide right away. The reason why this is continuing is because of US foreign policy. And in the process of Joe Biden talking about managing this crisis and talking about making things better, there have only been more bills that have come out of Congress.
In fact, he's bypassed Congress to fund the arsenal, to keep replenishing the arsenal. Stop paying for weapons, stop paying for someone else's war crimes, stop protecting another country as it commits these war crimes. And if you can't be an honest peace broker, get out of the process.
We need another podcast. That's going to take a few hours to talk about where Joe Biden has failed. For one, the first time he seemed to find the word Palestinian in his vocabulary was when he accused the Palestinians of lying about the death toll in Gaza. And then that turned out to also be false. In fact, the numbers that were coming out of the Gaza health ministry, according to multiple
international bodies have been underreporting Palestinian casualty counts. Israeli intelligence has said that the civilian count or the death toll is actually higher than what's been coming out of the Gaza health ministry. So he's failed on that front. He has failed to speak to Palestinian humanity.
He has spoken with deep passion and concern, as has Anthony Blinken about the devastation in Israel and the way that people are feeling in Israel, and has shown nothing of that sort towards Palestinians. We don't want the rhetoric. We really don't want the rhetoric. When people say, call for a ceasefire—
The United States has had an opportunity and has an opportunity to really walk back and reflect on its entire policy towards Israel-Palestine. This is a moment of reflection. This is a moment of restoration, if you want it to be, right? And to think about what we've enabled in the first place. He's shown absolutely no real empathy. And
I think that he is under great delusion and thinking that the Muslim community or people of conscience are gonna forgive this, are gonna forget this come November. You can't tell us that, well, at least I don't have the Trump Muslim ban while also carrying out a genocide primarily against Muslims and think that the Muslims are still gonna vote for you.
And so we will make him hear us at the polls and any politician, for Congress or otherwise, that has not called for a ceasefire, that has been a part of this dehumanization, we will make sure that we see support for them in any way as a community. It's only right.
I don't know if you ever had the hearts of the Muslim community, to be honest with you. I mean, I personally was never a Joe Biden fan. I think a lot of people felt the same. You know, this country, unfortunately, leads to the way that our political system is built is that you're always voting for the lesser of the two evils. That's always the way that it is.
It's analyzing which evil is lesser, right? And when people say, If you vote for Donald Trump, and I'm not planning to vote for Donald Trump either, but if you don't vote for Joe Biden, right? If you don't vote for Joe Biden, right? Then you are destroying democracy. I'm like a democracy that's given us a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is already a failed democracy.
And so he never had the hearts and minds of the Muslim community. People always saw past his rhetoric. He always has had a terrible disposition towards Palestine. He's always had a terrible disposition towards the Muslim world.
You know, his segregationist past comes out sometimes when he starts talking about the Muslim world and you can hear the racism in his voice and you can hear the way that he talks about Palestinian life in such devalued fashion. So he lost us a long time ago, but he's definitely not getting us back after this in any way.
And I can't speak for all Muslims, but I think that come November, he and all of those politicians, especially in swing states that have turned their backs on the Muslim community, And not just the Muslim community, by the way. 67% of this country wants a ceasefire. Three-fourths of Democratic voters want a ceasefire. Half of Republican voters want a ceasefire. It's not just the Muslim community.
This is not some radical opinion to call for a ceasefire. And every single politician that has refused to hear us is going to pay a price at the polls, as they should. That doesn't mean that we're under any illusion that the other side promises us anything better.
In fact, it feels like Republicans have simply rushed to out-racist the Democrats, to outpace them in terms of talking about how they're going to be more unapologetic in supporting Israel unconditionally. It's been pathetic, but something has to change. And I think that Americans of conscience,
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