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A🧵about the true origins of the “Palestinians”

H/T lead researcher @IbnAlwarraq

A lot has been claimed about who the so called Palestinians are. History, as in factual history, tells us that they are mostly Egyptian in origin, and not even that long ago.

The propagandists have manufactured this mythology that takes so many origin stories that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Some claim they are the descendants of the extinct Philistines. Others go even further back to the Canaanites. 2/

Now imagine there were books, many books in fact, non fiction books, all written by Egyptians and Arabs themselves that detail the answers to the million dollar question.

Well I’m going to detail one such book for you right here, and it is very explicit in what it tells us.

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Arab League spokesperson Gamal Roshdy says the Arab political organization rejects Trump's proposals on removing the Gazans, which it considers “against the notion of the two state solution.” He says that removing them from Gaza is "tantamount to undermining the Palestinian cause completely.”

This thread will tell you the true history and truth about the “Palestinian cause”

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Let me clear… before 1948, there was never a “Palestinian cause”. Amin al Husseini and the Arab council wanted the land to be part of Greater Syria and to be known as Southern Syria. They wanted nothing to do with the name Palestine as saw it as a Jewish cause. The Arabs refused to be referred to in anything other way other than Arabs.

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Apparently many people can’t read long posts, so I’ve broken this important piece into a thread to make it easier for people to read and follow.

There are so many aspects of the Gaza war that people simply overlook and don’t even mention, and I feel it is vitally important to detail it here. I’ve read hundreds of reports and analyses by military and political and humanitarian “experts”, yet none have ever mentioned this, so I will. 2/

Too many people compare the wars in Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan to this war in Gaza. But this is simply irresponsible and wrong.

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(I urge everyone to please take the time to read and share this)

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A few days ago I wrote a post stating that Palestine isn’t what many think. There are so many intentional distortions of history and facts being spread by propagandists and fake academics who abuse their so-called titles to disseminate the most insane lies and misinformation about all sorts of things. But with this thread I want to discuss something I’ve written about in the past, but it’s a piece of history most don’t know, everyone should know, and that the propagandists have desperately been trying to erase. I hope this thread may offer some interesting insight on why “Palestine” exists in its current fabricated form, and how it was created. 2/

In the midst of WW1, the Hashemite King, Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi became the leader of the Great Arab Revolt, a pan-Arab movement that opposed and wanted the downfall of the Ottoman Empire.

Raising an army of Arab nationalists from across the region including North Africa, he allied with the French and British to defeat the Ottoman Empire who had allied themselves with Germany. He sought to bring back the caliphate to merge the entire Middle East region under his rule. His son, Faisal, would join him in leading this uprising, but what his son wanted to create was something slightly different.

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*PLEASE READ AND SHARE*

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Over the last 12 months, we’ve all been bombarded with countless false claims and videos by people Hamas propagandists about IDF snipers shooting into crowds of people or at animals such as sheep and horses, or false stories by highly dishonest “doctors” claiming that our snipers go out of their way to shoot kids in the head.

For months I’ve worked to debunk these ridiculous and libellous stories with evidenced facts, together with some awesome people including @GAZAWOOD1 and more recently @angertab.

We can’t stop the never ending lies made up and pushed out by the con artists, but we can diligently work to counter these claims with hard hitting facts and evidence.

So as a former sniper, I wanted to write this important thread to put an end to the false stories being pushed out there. 2/

Over the last few days, a few people have shared a really great short video of the Givati Brigade inside Gaza (Video attached below), and the video shows a few scenes that are incredibly important.

The most fundamental things a sniper has to ensure are that they:

1. Remain hidden and out of sight as much as possible. This means wearing the right gear and camouflage, but also using the right equipment both on themselves and especially their rifle. One of the most important pieces of equipment is the Suppressor, or silencer. This allows a sniper to fire a round with minimal audible sound from the rifle allowing them to stay hidden and their enemies to not know their position.

2. Carry all their own equipment and make sure that it’s all packed light and ready, with the ability to not obstruct or cause discomfort (as snipers can be in the same location and position for many hours at a time just to get that one crucial shot.

Now in this video, at the 00:09 and 00:20 marks you will see the snipers from this brigade aiming with a suppressor attachment.

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🧵. On October 7, terrorists flooded the streets, firing indiscriminately at civilians and cars, killing everyone they could find while shouting with joy.

They massacred so many people within hours, and left so many children orphaned after slaughtering parents in front of the children. 2/

I’m going to show you one such incident where terrorists started firing at an oncoming car in the middle of a town, killing the parents in the front seat. This first of 3 videos shows the moment the terrorists firing at the car killing the parents and stopping the car dead in the middle of the road while the terrified young children were hiding in the back seats.

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I would recommend everybody interested in the Truth to read this. It is important in fighting the lies and propaganda spread everywhere. All of the lies.

After the pogrom against the Jews today in Amsterdam, I thought it was important to go back to the beginning of everything, and refer back to history, and I mean real history.

What I’ve written and added below will upset many, some because of it’s heartbreaking detail, and many of the propagandists who have spent a year spreading lies and false history. But it is important in the age of information and disinformation, of lies and propaganda, that some critical truths are offered to everyone. It is only in the context of truth that we can all understand the present.

October 7 changed everything. Not just because it happened, and not even just what took place (because much of what occurred on that day had happened dozens of times before) but because the events of October 7 didn’t start then, nor in 1948, and nor did it start a decade or two decades before that. The events of October 7 have been inflicted on the Jews in this land for hundreds of years.

Now to many, they try sell you the story that all of this started because Jews woke up one day and decided to create Zionism in the late 1890’s, and then pushed to immigrate to the land that is now Israel and force the Arabs of the land out.

But the truth is very different. In fact, so shockingly different that it will pierce the heart of many who will read this with heartbreaking pain and anguish at just how much the Jewish people have suffered at the brutality of the Arabs.

The truth will shock many, and it destroys every ounce of propaganda ever told by Arabs and their supporters. But most importantly, it is the truth, and everyone should know it.

Before Israel’s Independence, before Zionism even started, there were Jews on this land, and many of them. And before Zionism was created in the 1890’s, Jews from around the Middle East and all the way as far as Russia and Lithuania returned in numbers, from as early as the 16th century. That’s right… much of everything that is happening today has been happening on this very land that is now Israel for hundreds and hundreds of years, long before Hagana and the Stern Gang and Irgun and all the other excuses the propagandists and revisionists like to tell you. But unlike them and their cohorts of misinformation, we have the truth, and now, so will you.

For those who will try deny the truth, I have added references and citations so everyone can research it for themselves. 2/

In 1831, Southern Syria, the Arabic name for the province better known as the Holy Land of which Safed was a part, was annexed by Mehemet-Ali, Viceroy of Egypt. Safed’s Jewish community was one of the largest in the country, and had long been predominantly Jewish, as evidenced around 1625 by the Italian orientalist Franciscus Quaresmius, who wrote of Safed that it was “inhabited mainly by Hebrews, where they have their synagogues and schools”.

The community was strengthened by the arrival of Russian Jews between 1776-1781, followed by Jews from Lithuania around 1809.

Safed is part of the vilayet (and administrative part of the Ottoman Empire) of Sidon, and the vilayet’s Jews lived mainly in Safed and Tiberias. From 1831, Egyptian governance of the Holy Land, delegated by Méhémet-Ali to Ibrahim Pacha, led to a process of modernization that upset the traditional social balance between communities, and, ultimately, to an uprising by the rural Arab population that focused its violence on the Jews.

Indeed, one of Mehemet-Ali’s main decisions was to favor Jews and Christians, who had until then been overlooked, in the management and administration of his provinces. He also sought to surround himself with many Westerners to carry out major reforms and large-scale projects.

It was under his reign that Ashkenazi Jews obtained the annulment of the Ottoman decree prohibiting them from settling in Jerusalem. Hence the anger of the main notables, both Islamic religious dignitaries and local rural chiefs who, from Nablus to Hebron, and from Jerusalem to Jaffa, saw their power strictly controlled by the administration of Mehemet-Ali of Egypt and not by Istanbul. What’s more, Governor Ibrahim Pasha, sent by Mehemet-Ali, implemented a major tax reform that introduced equality before the law: this was bound to upset the privileged, who had been brought back under common law, and upset the social balance as soon as they could no longer live – as they once did – off the taxes paid by non-Muslims. Added to this were new taxes on harvests, particularly olives, which remained a major produce in the region.
Continuing with his reformist approach, Ibrahim Pacha implemented compulsory conscription through a lottery system that involved the entire population. This decision added to the dissatisfaction of the predominant peasantry. This policy of openness towards Christian and Jewish minorities provoked the wrath of both conservative and popular circles, suddenly forced to admit the disappearance of the discriminated condition of the Jews, which until then had been the only mark of their presumed superiority.

They then fomented and led an insurrection to get rid of them, targeting non-Muslims and, in particular, Jews, who were to pay a high price. It was against this backdrop that, in May 1834, revolt broke out in the regions of Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem and Safed.

Furious farmers, probably incited by a local preacher named Muhammad Damoor who proclaimed himself an “Islamic prophet”, attacked the Jews, destroying their homes and committing all manner of violence. The pogrom officially began on June 15, 1834. It lasted thirty-three days. It was carnage. Armed Arab and Bedouin villagers, as well as the inhabitants of Safed (including Turks), massacred the Jews and raped their wives. The death toll probably exceeded five hundred. Synagogues were looted and then set on fire, and precious objects stolen or destroyed. In his book “The Events of Time” (Korot Ha Itim), Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kamenitz bears witness to the violence: “On Sunday, Sivan 18, looters from neighboring villages (Safed) went on the rampage. They were joined by residents of other provinces. With swords and deadly weapons, they threw themselves on Jews, pushed them to the ground, tore off the clothes of both men and women, drove them naked from the town and ransacked their possessions…/

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🧵. I’m writing this because I wanted to share how I became a proud MAGA. I want to share my journey from someone who was apolitical to now appreciating the importance of ensuring change happens. This is my journey of how as an American Israeli, I’ve understood how the Israeli people have been impacted in so many similar ways by the same propaganda and lies.

This is my story… 2/

I was still living in America when October 7 happened. It changed everything for me and my family, and for all Israelis. My post attached is about that day and the effect it had.

https://twitter.com/cherylwroteit/status/1841839179522535731

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🧵. I want to dedicate this thread to all the innocent Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in southern Lebanon that are now no longer with us after today.

G-D bless our IDF💥 2/

This one is in slow motion is just stunning. Look at all those teeny tiny pieces flying around.

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I wanted to write one more necessary 🧵 before the weekend. It’s kind of a hybrid between a thread and a rant. So forgive me for just dropping it all in here. For me during these crazy times, I need to vent and find solace in these ways.

I wrote a thread earlier this week and I’m grateful for the reception it received. This thread here will be a kind of follow up to it. It’s about the most critical issue that has created more damage to humanity than anything else. And that’s EDUCATION, or in this case, the clear lack of it. 2/

What I’ve seen, as have many others, is that propaganda exists because people have no understanding of what’s true or false anymore. Information is power, or at least that’s how the saying goes. But when there’s too much information thrown out there, and an audience is too lazy to research things for themselves, you quickly find that ignorance and stupidity become as mainstream as the legacy media that feeds it to the populace.

We find this ignorance in all areas of life, and both militaries and governments have weaponized it to such an extent on their own populations, that we now find ourselves with an entire generation of stupid young people.

And the irony in all of this is that we’re at a point where being able to get information is easier than ever. A touch of a button and a few simple keystrokes and we have the ability to access any information we want. And that’s where education comes in, because education and learning, especially history, allows us to discern for ourselves what information is true or not.

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This is going to be a long post, but I hope many of you may take the time to read it carefully, because I really believe it’s vitally important right now. So here is a 🧵 to help.

One of the biggest challenges that’s led to where we are today has been the phenomenon of revisionist history. There’s been so much propaganda and so many untruths flooded into people’s minds that they struggle to distinguish between fact and fiction.

I’m sure most of you have watched those detective movies where the lead detective is standing in a room looking at a crime board covered in photos and post-it notes, with one or more central photos and strings connecting each piece like a web. Well that’s what I did for a long while when analyzing forensic evidence or profiling terrorists.
And for the most part, that’s what I see has been lacking over the past year of the insane propaganda and antisemitism. People have simply forgotten how we got to this point. It’s not that we’ve not connected the dots, but rather that so much bullshit has been intentionally thrown on the wall by so many people that we struggle to even see the dots.

So I’ll try remove the shit and perhaps the dots will become more visible: 2/

A lot of people use the line “this didn’t start on October 7”. And they’re right, it didn’t. It didn’t start in 1948 either. It’s easy to muddy waters by going back centuries or millennia, but it’s actually simpler than that if we’re to understand what’s causing this specific war and the wider context of the antisemitism plaguing the world.

To start, we need to identify common denominators. And however hard it will be for many, Jews aren’t the common denominator. They’re the excuse for what’s going on.

Many of us feel like we’re on the threshold of World War Three. And we probably are. But to understand why we need to go back to World War One.

The Ottoman Empire existed for centuries. There was never a country or state called Palestine. Ever. If we go much further back, there was the Kingdom of Israel, but never a Palestine. But during World War One, there was an Arab uprising.

The Arabs wanted to create a single caliphate and to do that they needed to get rid of the Ottomans who were undergoing Turk nationalism. The Arabs joined forces with the British and French against the Ottoman Empire allied with Germany. One man rose up for the Arabs, and I’ve spoken about him many times before. His name was Amin al Husseini. He was an Arab nationalist, also referred to as the Grand Mufti, who wanted to ethnically cleanse the entire region of non Muslims and recreate Sham, or Greater Syria. But when the allies defeated the Ottomans and Germans, they didn’t give it to the Arabs. They took control via mandates. The British took the Mandate of Palestine and the French took the rest. Al Husseini then formed militias and inflicted dozens of pogroms on the Jews living on the land, massacring thousands, including any Jews that started to immigrate there from Europe. But Jews across the entire region were also being attacked and persecuted in every Muslim country. Pogroms against Jews by Muslims wasn’t a 20th century thing either. They’ve been occurring for 1400 years.

So I’ve read this thread, and I can’t remember reading a more poorly researched, non contextual heap of logical fallacies and deflections as this one is.

There seems to be this new push to vilify Douglas Murray and every attack on him is so utterly amateurish and ridiculous that it’s embarrassing people are actually writing this kind of shit.

The moment somebody like Douglas mentions Muslims, instead of arguing against the points he raises, Rajesh here simply responds with “but the Jews”. And not only does he try make it about Jews, he writes an entire history of what was fabricated blood libels against Jews to try argue that the same blood libels are being made today about Muslims.

Well, Rajesh, let’s break down your entire argument very simply:

Throughout the past 800 years across the UK and Europe, please inform your audience when Jews called for Talmudic courts and laws to become mainstream in the UK and Europe? When did Jews demand that Christian traditions be removed, changed or canceled because it offended them? When did Jews walk up to a British soldier in broad daylight in the middle of London and hack him to death before beheading him? When did Jewish Rabbis hold sermons in synagogues calling for their congregation to go out and commit murder of the local population and push to force Talmudic law in the countries? When did Jews blow up buses and subway trains filled with innocent civilians, or blow up a concert stadium, or march in the streets with flags of foreign terrorist organizations and call for a holy war against the indigenous people? When did Jews hijack a French airline with 200+ innocent passengers and land it in a foreign country demanding release of terrorists and threatening to kill everyone? When did Jews walk into cafes and restaurants in Paris and blow them up or start shooting innocent people? When did Jews fly armed terrorists to an Olympic Games in a European country and murder an entire team of an Arab nation? When did Jews immigrate to any European country and outright refuse to integrate with the local community, or demand that the local community change to suit the Jews? I can go on and on and on.

Now if you’re going to even attempt to make an argument, you first need to ensure that you make available all the facts. You need to consider ever argument made by people like @DouglasKMurray, and counter it rather than stupidly deflect from it.

And your audience having the identical lack of knowledge and ability to acknowledge and accept the truth about their own community. You cannot hide from the fact that since 9/11, there have been over 48000 terrorist attacks where people have been killed across 70 countries with a total death toll in the hundreds of thousands, and that each and every one of these terror attacks were committed by one ideological group, one “religion”. And you know what Rajesh? It wasn’t the Jews. It was Muslims. Only Muslims.

So if you don’t want to be the victim of justified anger and hate towards you, then perhaps you should look at the root cause and gather all the non violent Muslims together and get rid of the Islamists among you who are committing all these crimes and demanding all these changes from the indigenous people of Europe. You cannot manipulate this narrative against the Jews no matter how desperate you are. Because to do so removes the one thing you need most… facts!!! For anybody unable to read the thread by Rajesh because the coward decided to hide it, here it is…

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A History of the Never Ending War



Authored and Researched By Levi Zakye
@LZakye

Edited and Formatted By Cheryl E

Introduction:

On Oct 7th, 2023, the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, a US designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO), launched surprise attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip firing over 7,000 rockets within 7 hours and breaching the Gaza-Israel border into Israeli territory.

More than 1200 Israelis and foreign nationals including 35 U.S Citizens in Israel were massacred. Hundreds were taken hostage, numerous women subjected to rape, numerous homes burnt and Israelis incinerated alive in their homes with the perpetrators recording these atrocities on camera.

There has been a global obsession with Israel and the Palestine question for more than seven decades. The October 7th attack was a symptom of this puzzle that dates back so many centuries, if not millennia. To attempt to understand this puzzle, we first need to look at the history of Israel - the most controversial piece of land in history.

A Bit of History:

Jews have had an unbroken presence in the land of Israel for over 3000yrs. In 70 AD Roman General Titus under Emperor Vespasian besieged and captured Jerusalem and destroyed the City and second Jewish Temple to crush the Jewish rebellion. In 135 AD Roman Emperor Hadrian again crushed Jewish revolts and exiled many Jews out of the Judean Province and city of Jerusalem. Emperor Hadrian also renamed the whole region ‘Palestina’ (a latin word) in place of the original name - Eretz Israel - to erase the memory of Jews in the land. The Roman Empire was succeeded by the Byzantine Empire in 313 AD.

Arab Invaders from the Hijaz invaded the Byzantine Empire and conquered it between 636 – 640 AD after the death of their prophet Mohammed. Jews lived under Arab rule here as dhimmis (lower class citizens) subject to jizya tax or subject to forced conversion. Jews not expelled into the diaspora continued to live through the different conquests like the Crusaders, the Mamluks, and the Ottoman Empire (1516- 1918).

By the mid-1800’s, Jews in the diaspora were beginning to flee different persecutions and pogroms in Europe and returning into Palestine under the Ottoman Empire, particularly more by 1881 with Jews fleeing pogroms from Czarist Russia.

Birth of the Zionist Movement:

The Zionist Movement began to grow in Europe to find a solution to the Jewish problem and end their homelessness and the persecutions and massacres and expulsions in Europe. The First Zionist Congress was held in Basel, Switzerland, on August 29th 1897 led by Theodor Herzl gathering hundreds of Jews from around the world.

As the Zionist movement grew, the Arab Nationalist movement in the Ottoman Empire was also growing.
In 1903 at the 6th Zionist Congress, the British colonial secretary proposed Uganda for the Jews fleeing these persecutions in Europe as the homeland which was rejected as the Jews’ aspiration was to form their state again in their ancient homeland in the region now called Palestine.

By the end of WW1 and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France were faced with the question of how to solve aspirations of the Zionist movement and the Arab Nationalist movement in the former Ottoman ruled region.open.substack.com/pub/cherylwrot… 2/

As the Ottoman Empire neared its final fall on 31st Oct 1917, the British War Cabinet under new Prime Minister David Lloyd and Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour met to put the final wording on what came to be known as the Balfour Declaration.

This was followed by the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the San Remo Conference 1920 all with Arab leaders and Zionist leaders represented with the Agreement that the British Mandate for Palestine was to be for the re-constitution of the Jewish National home, and the French Mandate was to be for Syria and Lebanon and with the other British Mandates for Mesopotamia (later renamed Iraq).

However Colonial Secretary Winston Churchhill following the Cairo Peace conference of 1921 was under pressure from the Hashemite Emir Faisal and brother Abdallah and further partitioned Palestine creating another exclusively Arab state (Jordan) in 77% of Mandatory Palestine. And this was adopted by the council of the League of Nations in 1922.

The Council of the League of Nations met between July 19th – 24th 1922 and approved the British and French Mandates over these territories of the fallen Ottoman Empire.
Britain under the mandate committed to encourage further diaspora Jewish immigration into Mandatory Palestine and to support the Jews till they were ready for self-determination and settlement over the land.

Thus the San Remo Conference and the Council of the League of Nations of 1922 with the power of disposition had therefore passed legal title to the Jews over Mandatory Palestine, and for the Arabs over what would become Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq (Mesopotamia).
However with more economic success by the Jews in the land came further Arab migrations into the land from surrounding Arab states seeking jobs in the now flourishing Jewish agricultural economy.

The Arabs soon abandoned the agreements of the mandates and appointed the radical Amin Al Husseni as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as appeasement for Arabs in 1921 to restore calm after Arab uprisings and the Jewish massacres of 1920. A pattern had been set that would haunt the rest of British rule over Palestine. The Hebron massacres of Jews followed in 1929.

When Britain Turned Its Back on the Jews:

By the mid 1930’s Palestine had become almost ungovernable. By this time Hitler was in power in Germany and the persecution of Jews in Germany had began.
In order to appease the Mufti and his followers in case they sided with the Nazis (which they ended up doing anyway), the British Government began to introduce measures to severely reduce Jewish immigration into Palestine. The end result was the infamous Mcdonald White Paper of 1939 that would have disastrous consequences at a time when the Jews were fleeing from the Nazis in Europe, and virtually no country would take them. The White paper restricted the number of Jews that would be allowed to settle in Palestine to a total of just 75,000 over the next 5years. This was a monumental betrayal by Britain of its sacred trust of the mandate without the support or approval of the council of the League of Nations and of the Permanent Mandate Commission which was overseeing the operations in Palestine. Britain also purported to prohibit the transfer of further land to any Jewish Institutions contrary to article 6 of the Mandate which was illegal.

The 1939 white Paper literally wheeled hundreds of thousands of Jews that would have escaped to Palestine into the concentration camps and gas chambers.

Thousands of holocaust survivors also drowned as they tried to reach their ancestral home in Palestine in every way possible, mostly in small unseaworthy vessels. Many others also drowned while trying to run the British naval blockade of their promised homeland, blocked by the very nation that had been mandated to re-create the National home for the Jewish people and encourage their immigration.

Dear Shadi,

I wanted to respond to your thread which I have read several times to ensure I fully understand not only what you are putting forward, but also your rationale behind how you reached your views.

I noticed a trend in almost all the points you raised, which though your argument can be read as logical, well thought out, and well structured, each point either lacks critical context or uses one or another logical fallacy to reach its conclusion. In the below response, I won’t use the same bullet points mainly because the details I will cover will touch each one of the points both you and @petersavodnik touched on.

On the basis of Israel’s moral duty to protect itself from another Oct 7, I personally felt you oversimplified the argument and removed entire chunks of context. It’s a similar argument I’ve heard from dozens of analysts, journalists and academics, but fails to view this war in the context it should be.

Firstly, this isn’t a war that can be compared to any other. Too many people try to pigeonhole it into a comparison with the war in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or even Syria. But everything about this war is vastly different from any other. This war carries with it a long history, and this history dates back earlier than 2006 when Hamas took control of Gaza. In fact it dates back a little over a century. With regard to that history, I will add this to the second post in my response so that it can be an appendix for any reader to come back to.

I agree with your point that Hamas used the atrocities of Oct 7 to provoke Israel into a response. I agree with your description of Hamas and the fact that they don’t really care much about their own people. They are very much ultra nationalists with a strong and violent ideology when it comes to Israel. But this ideology isn’t unique to Hamas. It didn’t begin with Hamas. This is the very same ideology first conceived, and acted out, by Mohammed Amin al Husseini back in 1921/2. It is the same ideology that was part of the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood back in 1928, and it is the same ideology with the same violent execution that al Husseini and his militias attacked and massacred unarmed and innocent men, women and children since the first pogrom and attack on Jews in the land in 1920 and the dozens after it up until 1948.

Like this war, back then, al Husseini used any retaliation from the Jews (of which the first occurred only in 1937 by Irgun after 15 years of pogroms against the Jews) to incite all the other neighboring Arab states to rise up against Israel.

In each of the other comparative wars people choose, neither Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria were fully surrounded by states that wanted its extermination. Neither of the Iraq wars were Iraq against all its surrounding neighbors. Syria wasn’t a war against all its surrounding neighbors. And neither was Afghanistan.

Hamas attacked Israel. But immediately began to incite and demand the other Arab states to join them in their war. In fact by Hamas’s own admission, they attacked Israel because they fully believed all the other states would join in and finally wipe Israel out. So your argument that Israel claiming it was fighting an existential war against an existential threat is the same as Hamas’s claim is false. Hamas at no point were fighting an existential threat to their entire people.

Unlike the other wars, Gaza isn’t one strip. It’s two strips laid one on top of the other. Hamas had built an entire network of heavily fortified tunnels that spanned almost the entire strip. The tunnels, by their own open admission, was purely for Hamas’s use to attack Israel and to hide just their fighters from the Israeli aerial attacks. They deliberately set it up to use their entire civilian population as shields. Now not only were their population used as shields, but they were also deliberately used for propaganda. Hamas’s intention was to draw israel to attack Gaza knowing their people would be killed. For Hamas, the more could be killed, the better. Why? Because they know that the international community has no understanding of how the mindset is in the Middle East. The world sees deaths of civilians and the activists lose their minds. Basically, our western mindset and morality is our weakness against a group that lacks both. And Hamas were banking on this western morality to pressure Israel. And fighting Hamas under western rules of war is like fighting against a samurai holding two swords while having no weapon, no armor, and being unable to do more than punch lightly. Western rules of war and our morality sees a punch against this heavily armed and heavily armored samurai that draws blood as excessive and disproportionate force.

While you continued in your argument about Hamas, you omitted the fact that they had also fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately at Israeli cities and towns. But not only on Oct 7 or the two months after, but also for the past 18 years. So again, comparing this war to other wars is one of many strawman arguments you made. There is no other sovereign country on Earth that has had to endure even 6 months of constant and persistent barrages of rockets fired into their civilian cities, nevertheless 18 years of it. Imagine if Taiwan who some “experts” compare to Gaza had been firing thousands of rockets at Beijing and other Chinese cities for 18 years? Or if Puerto Rico or Hawaii decided to fire tens of thousands of rockets at mainland America? How about Sardinia firing rockets at mainland Italy. Or Tasmania firing rockets at Sydney and Melbourne? The comparisons can go on and on. But it’s important in the context. Because if it were any of those firing the rockets, the world wouldn’t try stop those larger countries from completely wiping out the islands. The only country in the world where the rules and expectations are different is always only Israel. Add to that the fact that the United Nations as an organization has been so one sided in its handling of this since 1949, Israel has been forced to fight the samurai with their hands tied behind their backs too.

Next, you attempted to compare casualty numbers. This for me is where you lost the argument entirely. Your entire analogy was a strawman argument, but not even a minor one. It was a huge error. You compared the wars in Syria and Iraq to Gaza by using the population size of Iraq. In keeping this response respectful, I have to admit my first thought was What the actual Fuck??? How can you compare population size when Iraq is over 1200 times the size of Gaza? Gaza is 360 square kilometers. Iraq is over 430,000 square kilometers. Syria is 185,000 square kilometers, making it 500+ times larger. Yet the population of Syria is just 11 times larger and Iraq is 23 times larger.

A far more accurate and credible comparison or analogy is this… if you take one grenade in your hand, and place 5000 salmon in an Olympic sized swimming pool, how many fish would you kill with that grenade? Give or take and depending how many fish are in any given part of the pool but assuming evenly spread out, you’d kill maybe 100? 200? Now place 5000 salmon into a bathtub and throw the grenade, and you’d likely kill almost all of them. And the reason this analogy, in my opinion, works perfectly is because in that bathtub the fish would have to be stacked on top of one another meaning the fish closer to the top would likely shield those at the bottom to some extent. That’s what Hamas is doing by hiding in their tunnels. Israel has to go after Hamas and destroy their infrastructure, but their infrastructure is underground… it’s underneath the civilian population. How can Israel defeat Hamas or even weaken it without destroying the tunnels?

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This will be a first raw 🧵 to unravel the Hamas accusations of IDF troops firing at and killing civilians during a recent aid mission in to Northern Gaza. I’ve never put together a thread like this so hopefully it will work.

On the 29th of February, Al Jazeera (aka HTN or Hamas Television Network) reported on what they and the Hamas Ministry called a massacre that took place in Northern Gaza as a convoy of aid trucks went in from Egypt.

With many previous convoys being hit by Hamas where aid was forcefully looted and stolen by armed terrorists (anyone can feel free to add to this thread with the many videos showing Hamas attacking aid trucks), it was claimed by Gazans that gunfire was indeed heard as the aid convoy entered the North. What was not confirmed was who was behind the gunfire.

Two days ago I analyzed a video and showed evidence clearly seen in the video that Hamas terrorists armed with AK47s were firing at civilians and stealing the aid by looting the trucks and beating civilians who tried to take food aid.

The IDF have given a few statements about the incident, stating that their troops did NOT open fire on the aid convoy. They stated that at a later point further north, a group of civilians approached the IDF and the troops fired warning shots in the air.

The BBC reported in their BBC Verified article that they based their findings mostly off the Al Jazeera footage and testimony report (surprise surprise). So basically they may as well have just taken a statement directly from Hamas. In fact, all the mainstream media that covered this story (and there weren’t that many, published their articles based on the Al Jazeera story.

As you will see in the article by the BBC here, they use the Al Jazeera story and reference it frequently. The BBC clearly states that their verification is also based on witness testimony, so the following parts of this thread will look at these in more depth.



I will add the full Al Jazeera video report, which I will breakdown in this thread, at the end of the thread so everybody can reference each point. This Al Jazeera report, as I will show, makes up the single predominant source for all other MSM worldwide covering this incident.bbc.com/news/world-mid… 2/

Like the BBC, most other MSM sites used the Al Jazeera report as their sole or main source for their own reporting. CNN, CBS, SKY, and even Reuters make reference to the same video and stating that they themselves could not verify it.

1/ Steps toward a ceasefire:

1. Release all hostages alive.
2. Hamas leaders and terrorists surrender. Leaders to be executed.
3. All of UN and NGOs leave Gaza immediately and never return.
4. No Palestinian will work in Israel for min 20 years until they prove to want peace. 5. Israel, Palestinians, Arab world representatives, US and Europe sign binding agreement that if a single terror attack happens again on Israeli soil, Israel has full unabated and uninhibited powers and rights to defend with complete impunity however they deem fit…

As nightfall comes upon our land,
our cries of grief still bitterly reign.

The world is screaming and shouting for a ceasefire,
How can they just not feel our pain? They continue to call for our extinction, to kill every person in our land,

We’ve no choice but to fight, yet the world refuse to understand.

@pplato334 @Ahmad4ISRL @GadSaad we can go on a history lesson all night if you wish. The actual name “Israel” also appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs from around 1200BC, when the then Jewish nation of Solomon split in two. And it was Herodotus , in 500bc, not Aristotle. @pplato334 @Ahmad4ISRL @GadSaad We can also go on the basis that the land was not only inhabited by Jews. Of course there were other people and tribes back then, many of which were nomadic. The Philistines were also closer related to ancient Greeks and were not at all Arab.