아흐메드의 투쟁: 팔레스타인 점령하의 삶

### 팔레스타인 투쟁에 대한 인식 제고: 아흐메드의 이야기와 연대의 필요성
* 📹 이 동영상은 중요한 문제, 특히 팔레스타인에서 아흐메드와 같은 개인이 직면한 어려움에 대한 인식을 높이기 위해 **콘텐츠 참여의 중요성**을 강조합니다.
* 🌍 청중과 같은 20대 중후반의 많은 사람들이 꿈을 추구하고 있지만 **수단, 콩고, 팔레스타인을 비롯한 전 세계의 다른 사람들에게는 기회가 박탈**당하고 있습니다.
* 👤 팔레스타인 출신의 27세 아메드 마타르는 **가족을 잃고 여러 차례 난민이 되어 제대로 된 쉼터나 식량 없이 끔찍한 환경**에서 살았던 끔찍한 경험을 공유합니다.
* 깨끗한 물과 위생용품이 부족해 질병이 빠르게 확산되고 있으며, **저공비행기로 인한 지속적인 공포**가 일상의 스트레스를 가중시키고 있습니다.
* 💔 아흐메드는 자신의 이야기를 소셜 미디어에 공유하여 관심과 지지를 이끌어냄으로써 **전 세계가 팔레스타인 사람들이 겪고 있는 심각한 어려움**을 인식해 달라고 호소하고 있습니다.
* 📚 영상은 안젤라 데이비스의 저서 **'자유는 끊임없는 투쟁이다'**를 소개하며 정의를 위한 글로벌 운동의 상호연결성과 연대의 필요성을 강조합니다.
* ✊ 안젤라 데이비스는 **팔레스타인과 같은 투쟁은 고립된 것이 아니며, 다양한 운동 간의 상호 지원과 이해가 진전을 위해 필수적**이라고 강조합니다.
* 💖 이 영상은 희망의 메시지로 마무리되며 시청자들에게 **아흐메드와 도움이 필요한 사람들을 응원**하는 동시에 불의에 맞서 공동체의식을 키우고 집단행동에 나설 것을 촉구합니다.

팔레스타인에서 생존을 위한 아흐메드의 투쟁은 상상할 수 없는 어려움에 직면한 사람들을 위한 전 세계의 인식과 지원이 절실히 필요하다는 것을 강조합니다.

I'm going to ask you to do something that I have never asked you to do ever before: engage with this video, like it, comment on it, and share it with your friends. If you don't know what to comment, just ask me a random question about YouTube or content creation, and I will respond or comment an interesting fact. This is really important. According to my analytics, most of my audience is in their mid to late 20s, the same as me. At this age, if we have the privilege to do so, we are usually working towards our dreams and building a life that we love and one that we feel safe and comfortable in. But for millions of people across the globe, that is obviously not the case. For many people in Sudan, in Congo, and Palestine, even where I'm from in the United States, that opportunity has been forcibly taken away. This is the reality for Amed. I met Amed 5 months ago through o o, and I have talked about him in my previous videos as well as on my Instagram. He is a very

kind, very resilient, and innovative person living in Palestine. Like most of you, he is in his late 20s, and he's just trying to survive and keep his family safe. Here's a little about Ahmed and his journey in his own words. My name is Ahmed Matar, and I am 27 years old. I lost my father when I was six. He was martyred by the occupation forces during their 2003 assault on Gaza. Before the war, I completed my studies in media, fueled by a passion for photography and art. I dreamed of building a career, but the war shattered those dreams. Now, my only focus is keeping my family safe. In the early days of war, I lost 21 relatives, and my family has been displaced six times. We now live in makeshift tents in a commune with no real shelter. My niece Tagrid was born in November 2023 when we were first displaced. She's never known the comfort of a home or a peaceful night's sleep. Our conditions are beyond difficult. Food is scarce, and what little we find is

overpriced and poor in quality. We're forced to survive on whatever we can find. Diseases are spreading rapidly due to the lack of clean water and hygiene products, putting us at constant risk of illness. Every night, planes fly low over our tents, adding to the stress and fear we live with, especially for the children. The days are unbearably hot, and with winter approaching, we don't know how we will survive the cold without proper shelter. We are trying to raise awareness of the severe hardships we face in Gaza, that being a lack of food, the spread of diseases, and constant fear of attacks. We endure hoping the world will see our suffering and help provide the relief we desperately need. Ahed asked me to make this video so that even more eyes and ears can reach him day in and day out. Ahmed shares his life on Instagram, hoping and willing for people to pay attention. He shares the ways in which Palestinians have had to get creative in order to live under occupation. He describes what it's like

to go thirsty, hungry, and shelterless. To be awoken in the middle of the night or in the early morning, fearing for your life as planes swarm overhead and explosions go off in the gaining distance. Ahmed is very, very tired. His family is tired. His friends are tired. Everyone in Palestine is very tired. For many of us watching, but certainly not all, we don't know what that's like. We have the privilege to be in temperature-regulated households. We don't have to worry about a meal or where we'll sleep tonight. And we don't have to wonder if we're experiencing our last moment alive on earth when we hear a plane fly overhead. I ask that those who are able please consider checking out AMED's fund, which is always linked in my description. You can find it under the helpful resources title. Ahmed has also shared recently that his cousin Muhammad was diagnosed with leukemia and needs to travel abroad for treatment, as the treatment he needs is unavailable in Gaza due to obviously the occupation. That link will also be available in my

description if you're unable to donate for whatever reason, that is completely understandable. I will donate the proceeds from this video to Ahmed and his family, so all you have to do is watch and share with your friends, and I will also continue to personally and privately donate. Please make sure to follow Ahmed on Instagram, which will be linked in my description. Um, check out all the other links in there as well. I have links to aid organizations in Sudan, Congo, Haiti, and Yemen. And lastly, please check out Oob. That's where you can find other families like Ahmed's, um, who need desperate help. With all of that in mind, um, if I don't make this video at least 20 to 30 minutes long, a certain social media site will attempt to hide it from my audience due to low watch time and engagement. A lot of, like, most of my videos are about an hour long, so they go by, uh, watch minutes. So, a 5-minute video will not, uh, catch the algorithm, if that makes sense. To make up for this, I

thought I would read you a chapter from a very important book. Freedom is a constant struggle by Angela Davis. I brought this a year ago um when it was being widely recommended on social media. This book talks about the reality of interconnected struggle and how we are all meticulously dependent upon each other's Freedom. It uses Palestine and Ferguson Missouri to display its point. For those of you who don't know Ferguson Missouri became a kind of Center Point for social movement and protest during the 2014 um killing of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer. It was a death that radicalized many especially following the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin in Florida which um incidentally spawned the black lives matter movement. So I'm going to try to read to you a few passages um from this book and any highlighted sections that I found particularly engaging just so you can watch it through rewatch it and try to help it get picked up by the algorithm so that it doesn't get hidden by YouTube. So I want to start out with

an introduction that was written by Frank Barat that talks about the plight of the activist or the person who is trying to make change in the world. I work in a building that hosts various organizations and charities working for global justice, some focused on Western Sahara, some on Palestine, others on torture in Latin America or Africa. It is a good environment to work in, surrounded by people who believe in a fairer and better society and who have decided to act on their beliefs and dedicate their lives to trying to change the world. Sounds utopian, maybe, but the important word here is probably not the one you are thinking of; it's trying, trying, and trying again, never stopping. That is the victory in itself. Everyone and everything tells you that outside you will not succeed, that it is too late, that we live in an epoch where a revolution cannot happen anymore, radical change is a thing of the past. You can be an outsider but not outside the system, and you can have political beliefs, even radical ones, but they need to stay within the bounds of

permissible inside that bubble that has been drawn for you by Elites. What can we do? How can we do it? With whom? What tactics should be used? How should we define a strategy that is accessible to everyone, including a general public that has reached levels of depoliticization that can make atrocities seem acceptable? What is our vision? How can we make sure we are talking to everyone? How can we catalyze and connect sustainable cross-border and radical movements? These are the types of questions that many activists ask themselves on a daily basis, questions that are anchored in the present and will shape our future. It is easy to feel discouraged and simply let go. There is no shame in that. We are, after all, engaged in a struggle that seems, if we look at it using a mainstream political framework and a mass media prism, unwinnable. On the other hand, if we take a step back, look at things from a broader angle, reflecting on what is happening all over the world, in the history of struggle, the history of solidarity.

movements. It becomes clear, sometimes even obvious, that seemingly indestructible forces can be, thanks to the people's willpower, sacrifices, and actions, easily broken. Angela Davis is living proof that people power works, that an alternative is possible, and that the struggle can be a beautiful and exhilarating one. That is something we need as human beings to experience, and it's in everyone's power to partake in the struggle. So, in an interview with Frank Barat in 2014, Angela Davis kind of expounds upon the importance of not viewing yourself as an individual in a larger movement and instead to focus on the collectivity of that movement. She starts by mentioning Nelson Mandela. Even as Nelson Mandela always insisted that his accomplishments were collective, always also achieved by men and women who were his comrades, the media attempted to sanctify him as a heroic individual. A similar process has attempted to disassociate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the vast numbers of women and men who constituted the very heart of the mid-20th century U.S. Freedom

Movement. It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle. Our tendency has been to consider Palestine a separate and, unfortunately, too often marginal issue. This is precisely the moment to encourage everyone who believes in equality and justice to join the call for a free Palestine. So, Frank asks Angela if the struggle of this is end, and she says, I would say that as our struggles mature, they produce new ideas, new issues, and new terrains on which we engage in The Quest For Freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk towards Freedom. So, Angela also talks about the connectedness across movements, that is, the connectedness of black lives matter to freeing Palestine, and she talks about how there's a connection between police brutality in the United States and police brutality in Palestine. It also might be important to point out that the Israeli police have been involved in the

training of us police, and therefore it means that when we try to organize campaigns in solidarity with Palestine, when we try to challenge the Israeli State, it's not simply about focusing our struggles elsewhere in another place. It is also to do with what happened in US communities, and she further builds on the importance of making these connections. This is one of the reasons I think so many people began to identify with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. It wasn't a sense of, Oh, we have to lend solidarity to these people over there in South Africa. It was because they began to see what we have in common, a common connection. If that's not created, no matter how much you appeal to people, no matter how genuinely you invite them to join you, they will continue to see the activity as yours and not theirs. And of course, one of the major conversations surrounding Palestine on the internet is people being afraid to talk about it because they think that there is too much complexity, too much history, to be able to join the conversation, and

Angela Davis mentions this in this chapter by stating, My experience has been that many people assume that in order to be involved with Palestine, you have to be an expert. So, people are afraid to join because they say, 'I don't understand, it's too complicated.' Then, they hear someone who is truly an expert, who does indeed represent the movement, who is so thoroughly informed about the history of the conflict, who speaks about the failure of the Oslo Accords, etc., when this happened and why it's important. But too often, people feel that they are not sufficiently informed to consider themselves an advocate of justice in Palestine. The question is how to create windows and doors for people who believe in justice to enter and join the Palestine solidarity movement. So, that the question of how to bring movements together is also a question of the kind of language one uses and the consciousness one tries to impart. I think it's important to insist on the intersectionality of movements. In the abolition movement, we have been trying to find ways to talk

about Palestine so that people who are attracted to a campaign to dismantle prisons in the US, for instance, will also think about the need to end occupation in Palestine. It can't be an afterthought; it has to be a part of the ongoing analysis. So, Frank asks Angela, What could we do to strengthen the pro-justice movement even more in the United States? And Angela replies, Well, I think that we constantly have to make connections so that when we are engaged in the struggle against racist violence in relation to Ferguson, Michael Brown, and New York, Eric Gardner, we can't forget the connections with Palestine. So, in many ways, I think we have to engage in an exercise of intersectionality, of always foregrounding those connections so that people remember that nothing happens in isolation. And then she and Frank kind of go deeper into talking about the connection with police brutality in the US and in places like Gaza. So, Frank says, We talked about the militarization of the police. You see it in Ferguson; you also see it in the West.

Bank in Gaza. You also see it in Athens, in Greece right now. Police forces looking like rooc cops. The fact that this is a global struggle becomes more obvious when you make those connections. And Angela replies, But they're shrewd, so we no longer see it in Ferguson because they have decided to make their militarization less visible. But even when we can't see it, we have to make the point, and I think that's perhaps even more important, that people learn to see it through the efforts to render those military influences invisible. So Frank asks Angela, What can black feminism and the black struggle offer to the Palestinian Liberation movement? And Angela replies, I don't know whether I would phrase the question in that way because I think that solidarity always implies a kind of mutuality. Given the fact that in the US, we're already encouraged to assume that we have the best of everything, that US exceptionalism puts us in a situation as activists to offer advice to people struggling all over the world. I don't

agree with that. I think we share our experiences just as I think the development of black feminism and women of color feminism can offer ideas, experiences, analyses to Palestinians. So can black feminisms and women of color feminisms learn from the struggle of the Palestinian people and Palestinian feminists. So I think the whole notion of intersectionality that has characterized the kind of feminisms we're talking about, that we cannot simply look at gender in isolation from race, from class, from sexuality, from nationality, from ability, from a whole range of other issues that Palestinians or people in the Palestinian struggle have given expression to and have actually helped people in the US imagine broader notions of intersectionality. Angela and Frank also talk about how the Palestinian struggle has changed specifically in the United States. And Angela says that it is increasingly becoming, that is to say, the issue of Palestine is increasingly being incorporated into major social justice issues. And my own experience has been that in the past I could always expect resistance or challenges when talking about Palestine, but now this has become

increasingly acceptable, and I think that has to do with what is happening in Palestine itself. It has to do with the rise of Palestine solidarity movements all over the world, not just in the US. It has to do specifically in the US with increasing numbers of people associated with black and Native American and Latino movements incorporating Palestine into the agenda. I think I spoke in the last interview about the tweets of Palestinian activists used to provide advice for protesters in Ferguson on how to deal with the tear gas. So, that direct connection that has been facilitated by social media has been important as well. And, of course, it's very important to leave off on a message of Hope because that is all we have in this situation, in this struggle. So, Angela says, I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will and pessimism of the intellect. This is an era where we have to encourage that sense of community.

particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism. I hope you watched through this, even if you just let it play in the background. Um, please make sure to check out the links in my description to help Ahed. Um, and you can find those links in every video I post, even if it's not this one. Um, and please also check out the links to help Amed's cousin Muhammad and check out Oob, where you can find other families just like Amed's. Thank you for watching.

This Video is Extremely Important

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가자지구에서 생존을 위한 아흐메드의 투쟁

팔레스타인 출신의 27세 아메드 마타르는 점령으로 인해 어린 나이에 아버지를 잃은 후 엄청난 고난을 겪어왔습니다.

전쟁으로 인해 그의 가족은 여러 차례 집을 잃었고, 부족한 식량과 열악한 주거 환경 속에서 임시 텐트에서 살아야 했습니다.

이러한 어려움에도 불구하고 아흐메드는 팔레스타인 사람들의 고통에 대한 인식을 높이고 팔레스타인 사람들에 대한 관심과 지원을 이끌어내기 위해 자신의 이야기를 인스타그램에 공유하고 있습니다.

팔레스타인에서 아흐메드와 그의 가족의 투쟁

아흐메드와 그의 가족은 팔레스타인에서 굶주림과 주거지 부족, 폭격의 끊임없는 공포 속에서 극심한 고난을 견디고 있습니다.

동영상 제작자는 해외에서 백혈병 치료가 시급한 사촌 무하마드를 비롯해 아흐메드의 가족을 위한 인식 제고와 기금 마련을 위해 노력하고 있습니다.

이 동영상 제작자는 영상의 가시성을 높이기 위해 사회 운동과 자유를 위한 투쟁의 상호 연관성을 논의한 안젤라 데이비스(Angela Davis)의 저서 '자유는 끊임없는 투쟁'의 한 구절을 낭독할 계획입니다.

글로벌 정의를 위한 활동가들의 곤경

프랭크 바라트는 글로벌 정의를 위해 조직에서 일하는 개인들의 헌신을 강조하며, 낙담에 직면했을 때 끈기의 중요성을 강조합니다.

활동가들은 급진적인 변화는 불가능하다는 생각에 도전하면서 전략, 포용성, 국경을 넘는 운동의 촉매제 등의 문제를 해결하기 위해 고군분투합니다.

안젤라 데이비스와 넬슨 만델라 같은 인물들이 보여준 사람들의 집단적 힘은 연대와 공동의 투쟁을 통해 의미 있는 변화를 이룰 수 있다는 생각을 강화합니다.

자유 팔레스타인을 위한 집단적 투쟁의 중요성

역사를 영웅적인 개인의 업적으로 묘사하는 것에 저항하는 것은 정의를 위한 투쟁에서 집단적 주체성을 인정하는 데 매우 중요합니다.

안젤라 데이비스는 다양한 운동의 상호 연결성을 강조하며 경찰의 폭력에 맞선 공통의 투쟁과 팔레스타인과의 연대의 중요성을 강조합니다.

팔레스타인 문제는 복잡하기 때문에 많은 사람들이 대화에 참여하는 것을 주저하지만, 포용적인 공간을 만들고 교차적 언어를 사용하면 운동을 하나로 모으고 집단 행동을 장려하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

정의 운동의 교차점: 미국과 팔레스타인

이 대담에서는 미국의 정의를 위한 투쟁과 팔레스타인 점령을 연결하는 것이 중요하다는 점을 강조합니다.

안젤라는 교차성의 필요성을 강조하며 경찰의 폭력이나 군사화와 같은 문제가 전 세계적인 투쟁임을 보여줍니다.

또한 흑인 페미니즘, 유색인종 페미니즘, 팔레스타인 해방 운동 간의 상호 학습과 연대를 탐구하고, 미국의 주요 사회 정의 이슈에 팔레스타인이 점점 더 많이 포함되고 있음을 지적합니다.

팔레스타인을 위한 글로벌 연대 운동

전 세계적으로 팔레스타인 연대 운동이 부상하면서 팔레스타인의 투쟁에 대한 수용도가 높아지는 데 영향을 미치고 있습니다.

미국에서는 흑인, 아메리카 원주민, 라틴계 운동의 활동가들이 팔레스타인을 의제에 포함시키고 있으며, 소셜 미디어를 통해 직접 소통을 촉진하고 있습니다.

연사는 신자유주의에 맞서 낙관주의와 공동체의 중요성을 강조하며 희망의 원천으로서 집단 행동을 장려합니다.