Omar Suleiman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Feb 2024
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have to look at how this failed political system has hurt people here and abroad, and talk about how to transcend that with just more humanity. Again, when you have 67% of the American public that wants a ceasefire, but only a handful of congressmen out of over 500 can muster up the courage in the face of these super PACs to say that, we should stop the genocide, right?
And it's like, what are you asking for here? You're asking for the genocide to stop. You're asking for Israeli hostages to be brought home. You're asking for Palestinian prisoners to be released. You're asking for peace and to start carving the path out to end this once and for all, right?
In the most ambiguous way possible, by the way, because there aren't many radical American politicians, right? It's the way that the system is. In the most ambiguous, bare way possible. And you can't even bring yourself to do that. This is already a failed democracy then. All the while, again, It always boggles my mind. If you're from the America First crew, what's America First about?
Fundling billions and billions and billions of dollars to Israel while it carries out this genocide, while people are starving here. And if you're part of the human rights crew and progressive crew, they have a term called progressive except Palestine, PEP, progressive except Palestine. Where are all your notions of social justice?
You talk about policing here, but you don't talk about who trains our police departments in many major cities and the type of brutality that's being carried out there. You talk about human rights at the border here, but you don't talk about the assault on people at the border there. You talk about all of these things here, but you somehow use the exact same framings against the people there.
So it's exposed, I think, the moral bankruptcy of both political polar opposites that exist in this country right now, and hopefully evoked a greater societal sentiment to say, this is ridiculous. You know, one of the things that is happening is that more people are getting their news outside of legacy media outlets. You can't hide that many dead babies anymore. You just can't.
More people have woken up to the Palestinian plight now than ever before. More people are outraged that this has been our American foreign policy all throughout, you know, Democratic and Republican administrations. This is what we've been paying for? This is what we've been excusing? And Israeli leaders literally spit in the faces of whoever the American president is
and says, yeah, we don't care what they tell us to do. American leadership says we're pushing Israel to minimize the casualties, to get less indiscriminate with its bombing, to manage the crisis, get a few more humanitarian corridors in, to make sure that Gaza is not evacuated and not ethnically cleansed, to make sure Palestinians can come back.
And Netanyahu comes on TV and says, from the river to the sea. How ironic is that? From the river to the sea. And that is his policy. We're going to make sure that Israel controls from the river to the sea. And we're going to push Palestinians into Sinai. And Muslim countries need to take them in. You have Israeli ministers, national defense ministers, saying, you know, things openly, right?
Like... We want to thin out the population, i.e. ethnic cleansing. We want to remove people. And the Muslim world needs to step up and take in these refugees, right? And the American administration, you know, or the American president says, and the American secretary of state says, you know, we're talking to them and we're making sure that that's not going to happen.
And if one of their ministers says something, Blinken maybe tweets out something about how that's not going to happen, but then it happens anyway. And then we still write them the checks. So I think most of the American public is probably going to get sick of this at some point.
And just people of decency and people of conscience are going to say, yeah, this is not something we want to be a part of anymore.
Trump's first words were about how he's going to be worse on this, right? So he talked about how he's going to deport people, revoke visas of students that are part of these pro-Palestinian rallies. So the focus was on the rallies versus what's going on abroad. Yeah, but look, we had a Donald Trump presidency. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem. He was not better on this.
Unfortunately, this is a bipartisan problem. And so again, we're under no illusion here. Like we're not looking to Donald Trump as a savior here, but we are going to penalize Joe Biden. And that's, you know, I can't speak for everybody, but I think that that's where a lot of our minds are at right now.
Well, the first thing I remember is that there was no news coverage of it. So 400,000 people march on DC, one of the largest marches in history. It was nowhere to be found in mainstream media coverage.
Whereas when the Stand with Israel rally happened, between the 300,000 strong Palestine rally and the 400,000 strong Palestine rally, there was a Stand with Israel rally where congressmen were bused from Congress to speak at that rally. Democrats and Republicans and high profile celebrities. And it was, you know, live streamed across multiple places.
I mean, I have to say this, the ICJ, if that wasn't the greatest display of media bias in the domain of United States mainstream media, then I don't know what is. They live streamed the Israeli defense on multiple news outlets, defending itself against the case for genocide and completely omitted the South African presentation of the crimes of Israel the day before.
So what I remember first and foremost about the protests is that they were nowhere to be found on mainstream media, which was expected. But what I also remember from the actual day of and from all of the pro-Palestine rallies is that I have never seen a more multi-faith, more diverse group of people consistently coming out for Palestine against the genocide in Gaza that I have this time around.
And I think that has been the experience all around. There has been a pronounced Jewish presence Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, other anti-Zionist Jewish groups, groups that are against the genocide, against the occupation, former Israeli soldiers even, you know, that have been showing up at these protests.
There's been a pronounced presence from Native American groups, Indigenous groups, all across the board, right? Christians, Jews, Muslims, I've never seen more diversity at these rallies than I've seen this time around, which I think is a sign of where things are going.
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