Omar Suleiman – Why Israel Won’t Win
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The speaker discusses the ongoing operation of the Nakba, which is a stance of Israel against slavery and violence. The operation has caused the deaths of 40,000 people and is continuing to cause the removal of Jewish culture, education, and even their clothing. The speaker warns that this is a dangerous narrative and that the Israeli regime is escalating this mistake.
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I know that Arabic words have probably been
made to seem particularly violent to you,
but the word Nakba is the Arabic word
for catastrophe.
The word intifalba
is the Arabic word for uprising.
The word jihad is the Arabic word for
struggle.
In order to make way for the Israel
that you see today, 100 of thousands of
indigenous Palestinians had to be ethnically cleansed.
A mass displacement,
a Nakba. The Nakba is widely recognized by
everyone, international organizations, the UN, most countries in
the world. In fact, Israeli settlers even brag
about it sometimes.
On the anniversary of the first Nakba,
we remember the lives destroyed by the ethno
state of Israel,
by the dangerous ethno supremacist ideology of Zionism,
and by the continued complicity of the United
States government at every single level
despite you not consenting to your tax dollars
being used to fund this atrocity.
This didn't start on October 7th. This started
over 70 years
ago. The Nakba is ongoing,
and the Nakba of 2024
is particularly genocide.
But of course, many Israelis denied that the
Nakba ever happened and Zionists are known to
deny atrocity after atrocity so long as it
doesn't fit their deceptive narrative. Murdering 40,000 people
and counting in Gaza,
not their fault.
Blockading Gaza by land, air, and sea and
creating an impossible living situation,
not their fault. Expanding illegal Israeli settlements under
liberal and conservative administrations and basically causing
every remnant of Palestinian
land to disappear, not their fault.
Murdering Americans in open sight like Sharina Bo
Aqla, Rachel
Corey.
Bombing the USS Liberty,
also not their fault.
Mass graves of Palestinians being discovered under Israeli
beaches
and the continuing mass graves in Gaza,
also not their fault. The sexual abuse of
Palestinian prisoners and the
testimonies from Israeli soldiers in the past
of * Palestinian women in the process of
the Nakba,
not their fault. See, all of this apparently
had to be done because God has somehow
given these people a right to our land
and to our lives, and we completely don't
factor into the equation.
Every Israeli accusation
is in fact a confession.
And the list of the crimes go on
and on and on. And who's paying for
these crimes?
You are.
As Americans suffer to put food on the
table, and as medical debt, student loan debt,
and financial insecurity
increase by the day, the US government continues
to send 1,000,000,000 to fund this apartheid regime
and to ensure that this genocide continues unimpeded.
The original lie of Israel is that Palestine
was a land without a people for a
people without a land. Of course, that's inconvenient
to the current narrative because what they don't
want you to know is that there was
a historical Palestine,
over a 1000000 people, a Palestinian culture, Palestinian
dress, Palestinian currency,
a history, a legacy
that our grandparents and our ancestors lived, and
they did not carry out an atrocity to
deserve the one that has been visited upon
them.
Over 750,000
people expelled from their lands, over 500
villages
destroyed,
countless massacres over 7 decades,
death and destruction and displacement.
Every single Palestinian in the world
has a similar story. And not only have
the Palestinian people been expelled from their lands,
their voices have been suppressed abroad all because
it is so inconvenient
to the narrative
that Zionism is an innocent connection of the
Jewish people to their ancient homelands.
If you think what you're seeing in Gaza
today is new,
then look no further than the testimonies of
Israeli soldiers who have committed this over and
over and over again.
This is not new for the Palestinians.
The only thing that's new is how quickly
the Israeli regime is escalating this genocide.
Because as the world is waking up,
the illegal settler colonial project is looking less
and less promising.
But one of the greatest miscalculations
of Zionists has been and continues to be
that Palestinians will eventually forget, that Palestine will
be forgotten,
that they will move on to their new
homes, and they will forget about the homes
that they were expelled from. But instead, those
that were expelled continued to hold on to
the keys of their homes,
they
Palestinians.
And they will not rest and we will
not rest until Palestine is free.