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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Jul 25

Two Massacres, One Signature
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Alawite Coast | March 2025
Islamist brigades loyal to President Ahmed al-Sharaa swept into Latakia and Tartus.

Civilians were dragged from their homes and shot against garden walls; villages burned as families fled through smoke-choked citrus groves.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at about 1,500, later uncovering mass graves and torture sites near Jableh and Baniyas.

Druze Heartland | July 2025
Four months later, the killing shifted south to Sweida.

A minor dispute became a pretext for government troops and allied Islamists to ransack the city: house-to-house executions, hospital corridors lined with corpses, entire families erased.

Observers counted 1,000 dead and 128,000 displaced before a fragile cease-fire took hold.

Reuters reporters found bodies still strapped to armchairs, while the WHO confirmed a morgue filled beyond capacity, doctors forced to operate without power or anaesthetics.

In Al - Sharaa's Syria, minorities are stripped of protection, Islamist allies fill the void, and the palace issues pious communiqués with one hand while tightening its grip on power with the other.

Given the atrocities committed on Ahmed al-Sharaa’s watch, it is imperative to examine the man himself and the inner circle of senior ministers and advisers who enable him.

Let’s begin with al-Sharaa himself ⬇️ 1/5

Ahmed al-Sharaa, born October 29, 1982, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a middle-class Syrian family originally from Fiq in the Golan Heights.

His uncle, Farouk al-Sharaa, served as Syria’s vice president and foreign minister.

After seven years in Riyadh, the family returned to Damascus, where al-Sharaa studied medicine at Damascus University.

Inspired by the Second Intifada, he abandoned his studies in 2003 to join the jihadist fight against the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

In Iraq, al-Sharaa aligned with al-Qaeda, working closely with its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Captured by U.S. forces, he was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, where he met Ibrahim Awad, later known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.

Released in 2011 amid the Arab Spring, al-Sharaa was sent by al-Baghdadi to Syria to establish a jihadist network against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

By late 2011, al-Sharaa, adopting the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, founded Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.

Under his leadership, the group grew into a formidable force of 20,000 Salafist Sunni fighters, effectively combating Assad’s army and Hezbollah.

In July 2016, al-Sharaa rebranded the group as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham to distance it from al-Qaeda’s anti-Western image and reduce exposure to U.S. and NATO strikes.

In 2017, he formed a broader coalition, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), uniting various Islamist opposition groups.

Despite the rebranding, the U.S. designated HTS a terrorist organization in March 2017, citing ongoing al-Qaeda ties.

Between May and November 2024, as Hezbollah, an ally of Assad, suffered heavy losses from Israeli strikes, HTS captured Aleppo, Homs, and Damascus. Assad fled to Russia on December 8-9, 2024.

Qatar and Turkey were the first to recognize al-Sharaa’s new government, marking a significant shift in Syria’s political landscape.

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When Ahmed al-Sharaa swept into Damascus, he took a single cleric with him to stand at his shoulder: Abd al-Rahim Atoun, better known on the front lines as Abu Abdullah al-Shami.

In May 2025 Julani signed a decree naming Atoun head of the Presidential Advisory Office for Religious Affairs and de facto chair of the brand-new Supreme Fatwa Council - an institution charged with translating every cabinet decision into shariʿa terms and drafting Syria’s next, explicitly Islamic, constitution.

Atoun earned the promotion in Idlib, where he presided over the jihadists’ religious court system.

Colleagues recall a man who can quote Ibn Taymiyya as fluently as he plots a military campaign; rebels nicknamed him “the jurist with the battle-map.”

In Julani’s Damascus, he has become the indispensable bridge between battlefield zeal and the paperwork of government.

Yet Atoun’s pulpit stretches far beyond Syria.

His Telegram channel, followed by nearly half a million, erupted in jubilation on 7 October 2023, hailing Hamas gunmen who “slaughter the Zionist enemy like sheep,” and promising that Idlib’s heart “beats for al-Aqsa.”

He later convened a rally titled “From Idlib to Gaza - One Struggle,” where banners of HTS and Hamas fluttered side by side and the cleric thundered that the war against Assad and the war against Israel are “two fronts of the same jihad.”

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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Jun 5

"Islam will conquer Europe- not by the sword, but through da’wah and ideology." (Yusuf Qaradawi)

Who are the #Muslim_Brotherhood, and why is it essential for every citizen of Europe or America to have at least a basic understanding of this extremely dangerous movement?

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In recent decades, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926–2022) has served as the #Muslim_brotherhood movement’s undisputed spiritual leader.

Al-Qaradawi was educated in Egypt at Al-Azhar, the most prestigious academic institution in the Sunni Muslim world.

In the 1960s, he relocated to Qatar 🇶🇦 founded the Faculty of Islamic Studies, and spread his teachings to tens of millions of Muslims through @AlJazeera

Qaradawi is the one who issued a religious ruling permitting the murder of women and children in suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians. He also expressed deeply antisemitic views, stating:
“The last punishment the Jews received was from Hitler, who did what he did — and the Jews, of course, greatly exaggerated what happened… The next punishment for the Jews, with Allah’s help, will be at the hands of the Muslims.”

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The vision of the #Muslim_Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna, extends far beyond personal piety or social reform.

It is a comprehensive political vision aimed at establishing a global Islamic Caliphate governed by Sharia law while dismantling modern national borders and rejecting Western models of statehood, citizenship, and democracy.

As the movement’s founder, Hassan al-Banna, wrote: ״the movement’s mission is To restore the international standing of the Islamic nation by liberating its lands and reviving its glorious past… until the long-awaited unity and the lost Caliphate are restored״. (Risālat al-Taʿālīm)
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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Jun 2

Palestinian identity has no intrinsic foundation. It exists almost entirely as a rejection of Zionism - and Jew-hatred fuels that rejection.

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Yes, national identities often emerge from struggle.

But real nations eventually build institutions, cultures, languages, and visions.

Palestinian identity?
It stagnates, recycles victimhood, and fixates on erasing Israel, not on building Palestine.

Even when offered a state in 1937, 1947, 2000, and 2008, the answer was "No".
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The "No" was not over borders but over the very existence of the Jewish state. That is the essence of the motto of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators from Melbourne to London. It's not about building a state. It's about destroying the one small Jewish state.
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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Jan 26

I was stunned by the decision of Ireland’s President, Michael Higgins, to use the events of International Holocaust Remembrance Day as an opportunity to spit in the faces of Holocaust survivors and trample on the memory of six million innocent people murdered by Nazi Germany.

Like a professional antisemite, Higgins masked his blatant hatred for the Jewish people with fabricated tales about genocide in Gaza. In doing so, he not only dishonored the memory of the Holocaust but also grievously insulted nations that have experienced genocide: 1.5 million Armenians slaughtered by the Turks, 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda, and the hundreds of thousands murdered in Darfur.

Let us clarify some important historical facts for general knowledge🧵:

1. The Jewish community of Europe on the eve of the Holocaust was an ethnic, national, and religious group that had no conflict whatsoever with Germany—neither national, religious, nor territorial. Moreover, German Jewry on the eve of the Nazi rise to power constituted just 0.8% of Germany’s total population.

2. Despite this, Germany chose to make the complete annihilation of European Jewry down to the smallest community of 200 Jews in Albania. Not a single objection was raised during the Wannsee conference discussions.

4. Even when the Eastern Front was collapsing, and the Soviet bear was advancing on Reich territory, with entire German armies perishing in the Russian snow, Germany still launched a massive operation to annihilate Hungarian Jewry. The death marches from Auschwitz were the Nazis’ final attempt to continue the Jewish extermination project, even amidst a chaotic retreat.

5. Daniel Goldhagen, in his book 'Hitler’s Willing Executioners', notes that there is no documented case of a German being punished for refusing to murder Jews.

Professor Ben-Shlomo reflected on the diary of the Auschwitz commandant, who described a moment when he watched a mother holding her children on their way to the gas chamber. For a brief moment, he thought of his children and felt pity.
Then, in an astonishingly “humane” gesture, he handed candy to the Jewish mother’s children, along with a light pat on the back to encourage them on their way to the gas chamber.

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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Dec 20, 2024

An Open Letter to Pope Francis.
(a thread 🧵)

Shalom,
It is a well-known fact that Jesus was born in the city of Bethlehem, as described in Chapter 2 of the Gospel
according to Matthew:
“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king”…

Bethlehem is the same city where Rachel, our matriarch, died giving birth to Benjamin.”

It is also the same city in the northern part of the territory of the Tribe of Judah, where David, son of Jesse from Bethlehem, was born.

David became the King of Israel, making Jerusalem its capital and building the altar on Mount Moriah, upon which Solomon, his son, later built the Temple.

It is a well-known fact that Jesus was born to a Jewish mother, lived as a Jew, and died as a Jew.

It is also a well-known fact that the term “Jew” originates from Judah, the fourth son of Leah, from whom the Tribe of Judah descended.

It is a well-known fact that there were those who sought to eradicate the connection between the Jews and
Judah; one of the most prominent of these was Emperor Hadrian .

Seventy years after the Great Revolt, in which Titus destroyed the Second Temple, an intense revolt broke out in Judea between 132–135 CE – known as the Bar Kokhba Revolt.

This was a rebellion of the small Jewish nation against a world-spanning empire, a deeply committed nation that refused to bow to idols, refused to give up the study of Torah, and refused to forgo its religious and national identity.

The consequences of the revolt were severe.
The Roman historian Dio Cassius wrote:
“…985 of their most
important villages were destroyed. 580,000 men were killed in battles and attacks, and the number of deaths from famine, plague, and fire is beyond measure, but few survived …"

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עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli

@AmichaiChikli

Dec 19, 2024

The time has come to discuss @CAIRNational, its origins, and the hidden ideology behind its self-definition as a “human rights organization.”

Let’s begin - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1994.

The organization has a national headquarters in Washington, D.C. and 32 regional chapters spanning more than 20 states.

Its current executive director is @NihadAwad.

Here is our Nihad praising the October 7 Massacre:
“The people of Gaza only decided to break the siege, the walls of the concentration camp, on October 7. And yes, I was happy to see people breaking the siege…”

@CAIRNational has had historical roots in Hamas since its inception.

In 1988, the Palestine Committee brought together Hamas' activities in the U.S. in the areas of fundraising, lobbying, education, etc.

FBI officials, who closely monitored the Palestine Committee, set up wiretaps inside the hotel, recording most of the conversations.

Transcripts of most of the conversations were presented as evidence in the trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).

HLF is a charitable organization established in 1989 to raise funds for Hamas, including organizations linked to Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior Hamas figure.

After a trial of several years, the organization was shut down, and five of its senior officials were sent to prison in the United States.

HLF raised about $12 million for Hamas by transferring it to institutions directly affiliated with Hamas.

HLF provided initial funding for @CAIRNational upon its inception in the 1990s.

This is found in many official documents, such as the Florida Senat and numerous articles.

In various cases, CAIR served as a fundraising arm for HLF.

The $5,000 funding was critical for the organization in its inception. This amount was received by physical check and cashed by CAIR, indicating personal relations between the parties.

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