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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

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Oct 4

🧵 Your Cheat Sheet on why Gaza War dragged on:
1- Israel: Correctly crushed Islamist Iran and its axis that launched October 7. Israel's exit strategy required a reliable Arab or Palestinian partner to take over Gaza. But until Israel got a reliable partner, Netanyahu was not willing to stick his neck out. The last time Bibi bet on Arafat, thinking their breakthrough Wye River would lead to peace, Hamas suicide bombed the deal and Bibi's premiership, forcing him to wander for years outside of power.
Hamas needs to be replaced in Gaza. PLO (Abbas) is unreliable like Arafat. Bibi looked for Arab partners, found only one. But this one was being crowded out. Below is the break down of Arab players in Gaza:

2- Qatar has the most duplicitous foreign policy on the planet. One one hand, it wants to be America's closest partner, on the other, it allies with the most anti-American and anti-Israeli Muslim Brotherhood organizations, such as Hamas in Gaza. Under Hamas, Gaza was like a Qatar protectorate governed by Qatari Ambassador Imadi. But Hamas committed Oct 7, Israel wanted it out, and Qatar used all the influence its money has been buying it inside Washington to reverse Hamas's death warrant. With Prez Trump saying Hamas wants peace, Doha seems to have succeeded in its push. With Qatar is also Turkey by virtue of being Islamist and a global sponsor of Muslim Brotherhood, including Hamas.

3- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government is the 12th most efficient on the planet, per World Bank. UAE is the most reliable U.S. ally and trusted by Israel. UAE has been trying to reinstate the ablest prime minister in the history of Palestinians, Salam Fayyad, whose few years as PM in Ramallah were the best they had in their history. The UAE is transactional and has been trying to help Palestinians in standing an able government that can win the trust of the world, including Israel, and thus be on their way to a state.
However, UAE and Fayyad have competition from Qatar and Hamas, which refuse to concede destroyed Gaza, and also -- to a much lesser degree -- from Saudi Arabia, which led on the Palestinian issue between 1968 and 2000. More below:

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Aug 1

Islamist #Qatar insists that it wants peace between #Israel and the Palestinians. Below are the three Qatari policies, all of them lead to the annihilation of the Jewish state. 🧵

1/ Official Qatar line, as articulated by its Emir Tamim bin Hamad, is the two-state solution as outlined by the Arab Peace Initiative (API).
Problem with API is that it demands that one million Israelis leave the to-be-Palestine, creating a Jew-free Arab-only Palestine, and that 5.9 million Palestinians registered with UNRWA move to Israel, thus Israel will stop being Jewish state and will become majority Arab. Jewish nationhood ends.

2/ Qatar's Al-Jazeera editorial line is usually the line of the global Islamist movement and Hamas, that Israel should be overran and replaced with an Islamist Palestine "from the river to the sea."
This Al-Jazeera article argues that Palestine has been Arab since the time of the Canaanites, that's some one thousand years before the Arabic language even appeared, but this is Islamist ideology not actual history.
If Al-Jazeera gets its way, Jewish nationhood ends.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Jul 20

This is your reminder that there are no freelancing or loose canon clans in #Syria attacking the Druze. Every bullet shot at the Druze is planned, funded, logistically supported by three of Jolani's henchemen. Check them out 👇🧵

1- Jolani's Chief of Intelligence Hussein al-Salamah (right), who replaced the earlier chief Anas al-Khattab. Hussein is from the northeastern Deir Ez-Zor clan of Ugaydaat, the main muscle in the "clans' attack" on the Druze in south #Syria.

2- HTS Senior Commander and now Under Minister for Foreign Affairs Youssef Al-Hajr, from the same Ugaydaat tribe of the northeast. Youssef climbed the ranks of Al-Qaeda with al-Jolani, fighting in Iraq and killing American troops. He is very ambitious and thinks he can probably become vice president or even succeed (or replace) Jolani himself.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Jan 14

If you are Shia Muslim, your belief states that the mosque that Prophet Muhammad stopped at, on his way to ascend to heaven and back, is the one on the left, in Kufa, #Iraq, not the one on the right, in Jerusalem, #Israel.
Thread 🧵👇

2/ When Shia Muslims visit the Mosque of Kufa, they pray two rakaas at the spot you see below, known as the Corner of Prophet Muhammad.

3/ Ancient tradition has it that the first life (Adam or whatever character you believe descended from heaven), landed at a spot. In reverence, the spot became one of peace, where no fighting or killing was allowed. Muslims (Sunni and Shia) believe that Adam landed in Mecca. The Kaaba thus became the peaceful spot. In the Quran, this spot is described as the Haram Mosque. Haram here means "prohibition," as in prohibition of fighting, killing or sin in general in this divine place. And peace attracted merchants and customers, and this is why "Jesus turned over the banks" at the temple.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Jan 5

THREAD - 1/ On Thursday Jan. 9, 128 #Lebanon parliamentarians convene to elect a president, who can either finish off Hezbollah or allow it to rebound — regroup and rearm.
Because the stakes are high for the pro Islamist #Iran militia, its top official said this:

2/ TRANSCRIPT - Wafiq Safa, Jan. 5, 2025: “We told them, we don’t have a veto on Army Commander [Joseph Aoun], the only veto we have is on Samir Geagea, because he [Geagea] is a project for destruction, a project for war, a project for fitna in the country, otherwise we are open to anyone, and this issue is being handled by Speaker Nabih Berri with [us] Hezbollah and our other allies in this country.”

3/ Wafiq Safa is the only senior “hands-on” #Hezbollah leader who survived an Israeli strike on him. His official title is Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Official with the Lebanese government, which has meant that Safa has been Hezbollah’s tsar in charge of Lebanon’s domestic affairs. He ordered assassinations of Hezbollah’s opponents. He shut down the investigation into the Beirut Port explosion. He commands smuggling of arms through air, sea, and land. He threatens, bullies, twists arms. His orders and bossing of Lebanese are usually handed down on behalf of “the Security of the Resistance.” He coerced Shia anti-Hezbollah candidates into withdrawing during the last parliamentary election. He has shut down presidential election for two years because Hezbollah didn’t have the numbers in parliament to elect a president to its liking.

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Hussain Abdul-Hussain

@hahussain

Nov 18, 2024

Some friends asked why I consider Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) to be Shia when its leadership insist that they are Sunni. My response is in this 🧵:
My argument: “Whereas Hamas is an ally of Islamist Iran, PIJ is Iran’s proxy. In contrast to the overwhelming Sunni majority among Palestinians, PIJ is mostly Shia, which hampers its ability to recruit. However, PIJ has emerged as Hamas’s junior partner. As Israel’s campaign to decimate Hamas nears its end, it makes sense that the Jewish state is now eradicating the smaller remaining Palestinian terrorist group.” — Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow

fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

1/ Despite Iran’s enormous resources behind it, PIJ’s membership is barely 1,500, compared to its competitor and less-resourced Hamas at 25,000. The Palestinian Muslim population is almost 100 percent Sunni and antagonistic to Shia. Converts are socially shamed and even bullied. This has hampered PIJ’s recruitment. Even if PIJ claims to be Sunni, it should be seen like Syria’s Alawites and Yemen’s Zeydis, both non-Shia who are often as depicted as Shia because of their alliance with their Iran.

2/ PIJ founder Fathi Shiqaqi’s book argues that Khomeini and his brand of Islamism was “the solution” in Palestine (annihilation of Israel, creation of Islamist Palestine). Shiqaqi was not yet Iran’s guy, hence Tehran set up Hezbollah Palestine, which couldn’t recruit and withered away. Shiqaqai internalized the lesson: Never announced PIJ’s Shiism. Yet many PIJ leaders were openly Shia. In 2014, the Shia PIJ leaders defected and created Sabrin movement, under Hisham Salem. The logo was borrowed from Iran’s Pasdaran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

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