Thread by @Nervana_1

Fact:
Hundred of thousands of Arabs and Muslims have been killed in
🔺Syria
🔺Sudan
🔺Yemen

But they didn’t trigger 1/10 of the reactions we are witnessing now in the war of #Gaza.

Why?
Because, in Gaza, they enemy is non-Arab and non-Muslim.

Let’s stop kidding ourself and have the courage to admit that.

For Islamists, the crime of Israel is not just the “occupation of Palestine”, but the disruption of their grand dream of the resurrection of the Islamic Caliphate.

For Arab nationalists, the crime of Israel is not the “occupation of Palestine”, but the disruption of their dream of one Arab grand nation from the Arabian -Gulf to the Atlantic ocean

Both Islamists and Arab nationalists do not give a toss about post-Israel Palestine ( even if they say otherwise), what they care about is the removal of Israel.
Precisely why, in many ways, they fail to defeat Israel.

Both Islamist project and Arab nationalism are failed projects that could not bring success to any of the countries adopted them.
Precisely why, Islamists and Arab nationalists are clinging to Palestine to hide their repeated epic failures.

For both Islamists and Arab nationalists, Palestine provides:
1- A needed distraction away from their failed project
2- A dream that help them continue to recruit followers
3-A tool to silent opponents
4- A trigger for emotionalism that numb public feeling and channel their anger towards Israel

And NO .. NO . NO…
I am not in any way, shape, or form, absolve Israel for a long list of disastrous decisions and polices that led to misery and loss of lives of Palestinians.

However, without understanding the root of irrationality in hatred, we will never be able to help the Palestinians

The only Arab leader who truly understood what I mentioned in the above thread is Sadat.
That is why his quest for peace was genuine and successful, but also it explain why he was resented and murdered.

The same hatred that led to Sadat murder is what behind what happened on Oct7.

Hamas did not embark on its brutal attack on Israel just for Palestine, but to deter Arabs from repeating what Sadat did.

#Oct7 was a virtual stab to the Abraham Accords

We are now standing at a critical junction in the history of the Middle East.

Thus far, the war of Gaza has gifted both Islamist and Arab-Nationalism doctrines a new life.

But the day after, may not be as glamorous as both camps want.

End of thread 🧵