March 3
GUEST: Yousef Aljamal: translator, blogger, and co-host of the podcast, "The World From Palestine," talks about his first hand experience exposing and resisting the narratives of settler colonialists.
Yousef Aljamal brings his Palestinian witness to U.S. Congress
Yousef weaves his pwersonal history with the story of Palestine. Growing up in Gaza, he has seen it all. One can only imagine living in a barbed wire prison for two million people, without electricity or food at times, and subject to periodic bombardments. That was his childhood.
We see the US and most Western European countries as they express horror for slaughter in Ukraine. How can Russia be so barbaric, committing war crimes on an innocent population? One might almost believe that the US puts human rights ahead of other considerations in directing its foreign policy.
That is until one thinks about Gaza. The US makes all the bombs, the planes, and the drones that are used in Israel's periodic genocide of these captive people. We send Israel more bombs when they run out. We give billions in military aid, while defending Israel's barbarism at the UN. This long term genocide belongs to the American people as much as to the Israeli people. History books, if we have such things after the war in Ukraine, will call apartheid Israel the client state of US aggression in the Middle East.
Worried about civilians in Ukraine? Why don't we try doing something about our blood drenched policy in Palestine. That is where we could really make a difference.
