Bren Kelly
2 min readJan 15, 2024

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In the US, if you want to be shown a violent military cell cheering on attacks on the “enemy” just look to the streets. To the Palestinian people, locked in two mile side cage by fences on three side and a the monitored sea on the other, to allowed to travel out at their won free will, this force Hamas was a “natural” unconscious realization of a desire to break free, to not be held hostage in one’s own country where generation after generation lived and roamed freely, but now is unable to travel freely, unable to tax and have a government (they are ‘administered’ by Israel). They were not some random group of people asking to be literally caged in, but were living there from generation to generation, instead of some “chosen” Europeans who after centuries want to “return” to their homeland, connected by hope and religion but not generational living. While I understand and sympathize with the plight of the Jews, it is no different in reality from the plight of the Native Indigenous who the American government seized land from they lived on for unbroken generations and then auction of bit by bit, advancing across the country decades by decade in the 1800s and early 1900s, invading different Indigenous nations and auctioning them off through the US government’s land bureau until 1920 when it reached the west coast.
When you think of a group merely by the label you are told to think of them as instead of the situation they are in and abused under, you can hardly begin to care to even want to understand the people who are living under that label, crushed by the day to day reality and suffering they must endure under the dominant culture.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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