Omar Suleiman – Ireland Protest for Palestine – February 2024
AI: Summary ©
A Jewish woman talks about the importance of showing the world what the world looks like before the war takes place. She also talks about the structural changes being made by Israeli and their desire to isolate the Palestinian problem and increase the movement until they can walk freely on the streets. She encourages people to show support and encourage them to continue to be inspired by the movement.
AI: Summary ©
How many more dead bodies do we have
to show the world before the world comes
alive?
How many more casualties do you need to
see before your heart comes alive?
But I also want to say as a
Palestinian, first and foremost, thank you to the
free people of Ireland.
Thank you for your consistent voice.
Thank you for showing the world what its
streets should look like.
And as a Palestinian American, I come to
you from the belly of the beast, while
my people are in its fangs.
We are at a crucial moment in this
genocide and every single moment has been crucial.
But Benjamin Netanyahu seeks a final solution to
the Palestinian problem.
He seeks to once and for all carry
out his plan for ethnic cleansing, which he
has been repeating for decades.
And I want us to recognize that as
we're standing here today, that the numbers cannot
dwindle, not in the streets of Ireland, nor
in the streets of the United States, that
we cannot buckle, nor can we tire.
Because Israel has only increased in its aggression.
And the powers that be have only increased
in their impotence in the face of that
aggression.
And so the power of the people has
to only increase.
And the numbers have to only increase.
And we have to remain not just steady
and steadfast, but we have to grow this
movement until the people of Palestine can walk
as freely in their streets as we walk
in these streets.
For years, Israel has sought to isolate the
Palestinian cause from the causes of freedom around
the world, and they have failed.
For years, Israel has sought to isolate the
Palestinian people from the free people of the
world, and they have failed.
It's not just the physical barriers that they
have erected with that apartheid wall.
They have sought to place a barrier between
the Palestinian plight and people of conscience around
the world, because they know that if most
normal human beings with a beating heart would
see the daily crimes of the occupation even
before this genocide, then they would be as
outraged as you all are.
But they have failed.
And I want you to recognize that as
they seek to lower these flags in the
streets of Palestine, for every flag that they
lower in Palestine, we have to raise a
billion flags.
For every building that they demolish, we have
to surround a million buildings, especially the buildings
of power.
For every single Palestinian that they kill, we
have to come out as millions and millions
and millions of people to say that that
life was not taken in vain.
For every single journalist, for every single voice
that they eliminate, we have to become a
million voices in the place of that voice.
And for decades, the Palestinian people have remained
steadfast.
They've refused to go away.
They've refused to be intimidated.
They've refused to let the occupation break their
spirits.
And just as the Palestinian people have refused
to go away, the allies of Palestine must
refuse to go away.
The governments of the world want you to
be dejected.
They want you to see these numbers of
80% and 90% and see that
your voices have not mattered.
So stop raising your voices.
They want you to believe that all of
these protests have been for nothing, but we
are seeing in our own lifetime, finally, finally,
finally, the Israeli propaganda machine is coming crumbling
down.
And if they have, there are more people
in the world saying free Palestine today than
possibly ever before.
And if they have the power of media
and money, we have the power of the
truth and the people.
So thank you once again for your support.
Thank you for your solidarity.
Please make sure that you continue to show
up.
Please make sure that you continue to reach
out to people that you've seen before that
have stopped showing up, that are feeling dejected.
Continue to inspire.
Continue to be inspired.
Thank you.
As-salamu alaykum.
Peace be with you.