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A Palestinian in Gaza has infinitely more courage than any US soldier.

Palestinians shouldn't need courage to survive. They should be playing with their kids and celebrating the spring, not fearing when their homes will be destroyed by US bombs or having to deal with Israeli occupying soldiers.

Nevertheless, the Palestinians stay true to themselves and do everything they can to stay in their homes, all while the world's superpowers have turned their backs on them.

They have a word for it.

That word is "sumud". In English, it approximately means "steadfastness".

The Palestinians deserve to live. They deserve justice. They deserve the same freedom I deserve.

And one last sidenote:

The powerful figures that want to destroy trans people in the West like me are the same exact folks who are spearheading the genocide of Palestinian people.

The same right wing antisemites and racists who want a White Supremacist, Christofascist United States are the same people who declare their unconditional support for the destruction of Palestine and its replacement with a ultra-Zionist, theocratic-fascist regime from the River to the Sea.