Omar Suleiman – Palestine 40 Years From Now – in Edmonton Canada
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The generational struggle in the United States is described as a "monster" struggle, where politicians are pressuring politicians to protect their lives and their families. The struggle is described as a "monster" and is connected to homeland security. The speaker also discusses the frustration of the Israeli population with their supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed supposed
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كم من فئة قليلة غلبت فئة كثيرة بإذن
الله How many times has a small group
of people been able to overcome a larger
group of people by the permission of God?
I want to take you to 40 years
from now in the land that you are
in right now.
Your children or your children's children will be
sitting in a classroom studying the story of
Hind Rajab.
Reading about her murder, listening to the words
of her mother.
They will be looking at the pictures of
the horror that is on your screen today.
They will read about the genocide, they will
read about genocide deniers.
They will wonder and scratch their heads as
to how both of your major political parties
seem to trip over themselves to try to
see who could out-racist and out-fascist
and out-Zionist the other.
And all of those three terms are absolutely
synonymous.
They will wonder how, they will wonder how
politicians that claim to be opposed to Islamophobia
spoke out of both sides of their mouths,
smiled at you in one gathering and then
denied the destruction of the entire bodies and
populations of your brothers and sisters in another
gathering.
They will wonder how, they will wonder how
they spoke to you about protecting your life
here but then made sure that those who
resemble you there had every single instrument of
life taken away from them.
Your children and your grandchildren inshallah will take
trips to a free Palestine.
And they will see the remnants of an
apartheid wall shorter than this stage and wonder
about the evil that once erected those walls.
They will walk in a Gaza that is
rebuilt and they will walk into universities that
are fully rebuilt with pictures on the wall
of the destruction that once took place in
those spots.
They will walk through the halls of schools
and institutions named after Walid Dehduh, the school
of journalism.
They will walk into universities that are named
after the greatest Palestinian humanitarians and freedom fighters
that we know today and admire today.
And they will see pictures in their books
of the student encampments, of the students who
put their academic careers on the line and
refuse to be intimidated by police forces that
are supposed to protect the people but instead
suppress the voices of the people.
And they will know your names and your
efforts as well.
Dear brothers and sisters, Nelson Mandela said, it's
always impossible until it's done.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
The picture that I have painted for you
is not far-fetched.
It is a reality that we strive for
and it is a reality that we know
is inevitable.
And if you're asking yourself, why are they
so afraid of a keffiyeh?
Why are they so afraid of your slogans?
Why are they so afraid of your determination?
Why are they so afraid of lawyers who
can't be threatened with their careers?
Why are they so afraid of doctors that
will walk right into a genocide and into
the semblance of a hospital putting their own
lives on the line to save others?
Why are they so afraid of the student
encampments?
Why are they so afraid of the protests
that won't go away?
Why are they so afraid of your flags?
Why are they so afraid of people shouting,
free Palestine?
Because this is a generational struggle.
It's not just a genocide of people, it's
a political genocide.
It's a cultural genocide.
They are frustrated that no matter how much
they psychologically and physically torture the people in
Gaza, that they keep insisting on staying there.
They're frustrated that no matter how much they
try to suppress the voices of solidarity in
the countries that are most hostile and in
fact responsible for that genocide, that they keep
on failing.
They're frustrated that their legislation isn't working.
They're frustrated that their threats aren't working.
They're frustrated that their lobbying isn't working.
They're frustrated that the public is turning against
them.
Because we don't have the greatness of means,
we have the greatness of purpose.
We have the truth on our side.
And when we say people are waking up,
people are waking up, and you can only
gaslight the people for so long.
You can't gaslight the people when the images
of children that have been gassed by your
bombs, produced here in Canada and in the
United States, show up on your screen.
You can't keep on pretending that you are
the promoters, the global promoters, and the global
voices of human rights, when in fact you
are the world's greatest purveyors of violence.
People see through it.
You can't hide anymore.
And I'm going to end with this.
You know, I was watching the Prime Minister
speaking about how Zionism is an innocent term.
Why is it that people have such a
problem with Zionism?
Because all it is is an innocent Jewish
connection to a homeland.
And I want to say to the Prime
Minister, we know exactly what Zionism is.
Just as you've tried to rob us of
our own slogans and tell us that saying
free Palestine is problematic, that insisting upon our
culture, insisting upon our land is problematic, we
know exactly what you stand for, and we
know exactly what Zionism is.
Zionism is in the boots that have been
put on the necks of our brothers and
sisters in Jerusalem for all of these years.
Zionism is in the bulldozers that have bulldozed
our homes and increased illegal settlements by the
thousands and the millions.
Zionism is in the disappearing land of the
indigenous Palestinian people.
Zionism is in the hateful rhetoric spewed by
every single segment of the Israeli government.
Zionism is in the bombs and in the
skunk spray and in the white phosphorus that's
been falling on our people.
You can't gaslight the people anymore and pretend
that this isn't the ugliest ethno-supremacist ideology
that exists in the world today.
People are not dumb.
People can see it, and they know what
you're doing.
And as the world starts to grow in
its awareness, and we start to hear these
statements, let it be known that the reason
why they are so afraid of this generation
is because they know that the next generation
will continue exactly where we left off.
I want to share something that was said
in the Knesset in October.
I believe it was October 23rd, that a
liberal Israeli politician, a liberal Israeli politician said
that the children of Gaza have brought this
upon themselves.
When you listen to these genocidal statements coming
from the Israeli government, know that they are
making no secret about their desire to wipe
out our children.
Our brothers and sisters in South Africa were
able to compile over 500 explicit genocidal statements
made by Israeli ministers, and that was December.
We know what they're trying to do.
We know what they fear.
They fear our existence.
They fear our voices.
They fear our resistance.
They fear our resilience.
They fear our insistence.
And they know that it is only a
matter of time before the gaslighting will stop
working and before the entire world will shout,
Palestine has been freed.