🧵I watched Tucker’s interview with the Iranian president, and here are my comments on what he said.

1. "Iran didn’t start this war."

The war didn’t start last month, it ended last month.

What we’re witnessing is the consequence of 40 years of unprovoked Iranian aggression.

Since 1979, Iran has been the engine of Middle Eastern instability. In 1983, its proxy Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut. Since then, Tehran has funded, armed, and directed a global network of terror:

Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.

They’ve launched missiles at U.S. bases, smuggled weapons and drugs across continents, threatened global trade routes, and called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and the downfall of the United States.

When the The U.S. or Israel respond, it’s not starting a war. 2: "Netanyahu made up Iran’s nuclear ambitions."

People have every right to doubt Netanyahu. He’s been warning for over two decades that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon.

But he wasn’t lying.

Iran was close, multiple times, and the only reason it hasn’t crossed the nuclear threshold is because Israel acted.

Mossad agents assassinated key nuclear scientists. They blew up enrichment facilities. They infiltrated and stole secret nuclear archives from the heart of Tehran. These are documented operations.

Netanyahu always said: “When Iran gets close, we will act.” And they always did, just like they did last month.

🧵 A comprehensive review of Jordanian textbooks and curricula from the 2023–2025 academic years, based on a detailed study by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), reveals several concerning statements that promote antisemitic tropes, glorify violent jihad, and express hostility toward Israel.

Below is a list of specific examples drawn from the IMPACT-se report, which analyzed 294 textbooks across subjects like Islamic Education, Arabic Language, Social Studies, National and Civic Education, History, and Geography. (1) Islamic Education textbook:

“Treachery and violation of agreements are some of the traits of the Jews and their natural qualities.”

Listen, @ComicDaveSmith, from the very first time I heard of you, when you "debated" @DouglasKMurraym, you’ve consistently proven how ignorant you are about everything related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

🧵In this thread, I will try to educate you, and the useful idiots who think you're an authority on the subject.

I’m Jordanian. I lived in the region. I was shaped by this conflict. I’m a former Muslim who understands its true nature. I don’t have high hopes that you’ll change your mind, but maybe those who blindly listen to you will.

(1) A brief breakdown of the history of the conflict.

By the late 18th century, Jewish communities were present in the land, not in overwhelming numbers, but they had maintained a continuous presence.

The land was not heavily populated, only a mix of Arabs, Jews, Christians, Druze, and others living in scattered communities with no real national identity.

There were no "Palestinians." No "Lebanese." No "Syrians" in the modern sense. These identities didn’t exist yet.

Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, didn’t start this movement because of some divine mandate. His motivation wasn’t biblical, his intent wasn't colonial, it was survival.

European pogroms and antisemitism were tearing Jewish communities apart, and he saw the need for a Jewish homeland as a matter of life and death.

By the late 19th century, Jews began migrating back to the land in greater numbers, legally purchasing land from absentee Ottoman landlords. They weren’t invading with weapons, they were buying property and building something out of nothing.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909. Haifa’s port was developed between 1910 and 1912. Swamps were drained, fields were cultivated, cities were built.

As Jewish settlements grew, so did Arab migration into those areas, because the Jews were bringing jobs, infrastructure, and healthcare.

The Arabs weren’t being displaced. They were moving toward Jewish communities because life was better there.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917, which promised a Jewish homeland, wasn’t unique. The French also backed Lebanese Christians, promising them a state. The Brits promised Iraq to Arab allies, and Jordan to Prince Abdallah.

The Europeans were trying to implement their nation-state model in a region that had never operated that way.

For the Jews, the British Mandate was an opportunity.

They had been buying land, building cities, and now had international recognition of their efforts. They weren’t doing anything different from the Lebanese, Syrians, or Iraqis, everyone was scrambling to stake their claim in the post-Ottoman chaos.

But for Muslims, this was existential. For the first time in Islamic history, there was no caliphate. The Ottoman sultan was gone. The Muslim world was lost, leaderless, and to add insult to injury, a Jewish state was rising in the heart of the Middle East.

Lebanon, a Christian-majority state at the time, got the same hostility. But the Christians eventually caved under pressure. The Jews didn’t.

The Muslim Brotherhood saw an opportunity and took it, using religious fury to rally Arabs against the Jews.

Before the 1940s, "Palestinian" didn’t mean "Arab." It meant anyone, Jew or Arab, who lived in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Jews in Tel Aviv were called Palestinians. But the Brotherhood rebranded it as an exclusively Arab identity, erasing the Jewish history tied to the land.

The Jews, like the Lebanese and Syrians, fought to shake off British colonial rule. They declared independence in 1948.

The Arabs rejected every peace deal, starting with the 1947 UN Partition Plan, which would have given them their own state alongside a Jewish state, all the way up to Their rejection of Camp David in 2000, when Israel offered them 96% of the West Bank and Gaza, and 4% of Israel.

They never wanted a state. They wanted to erase Israel. That’s why every single offer was turned down.

Arab leaders didn’t actually care about the Palestinians. Egypt, Jordan, and Syria all used the Palestinian cause for their own political gain.

Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt flirted with recognizing Israel when he needed Western weapons. When the U.S. denied him, he turned to the Soviets and ramped up anti-Israel rhetoric.

Saudi King Faisal saw Nasser as a threat and pumped money into the Muslim Brotherhood’s causes, not out of love for Palestinians, but to undermine his Arab rival.

And the so-called Palestinian flag was originally used in the failed 1958 Jordan-Iraq federation, before it was repurposed as a Palestinian nationalist symbol in 1963.

There was no Palestinian nation before that, just a movement searching for branding.

The Arabs didn’t lose their homeland in 1948. They lost a war they started to take one that was never theirs.

This was never about land. It was never about occupation.

If it were, why did Muslim-majority nations persecute Jews long before Zionism? Why were 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands in 1948? Why did Muhammad himself declare that “no two religions can exist in Arabia”?

Because this isn’t a geopolitical dispute. It’s a religious and ideological war.

The Jews built a nation from nothing, reclaimed their homeland, and refused to be erased.

And that’s why this conflict rages on, because Israel exists, and for many in the Islamic world, that is an unforgivable offense. (2)
You cited the "Palestinians' inability to vote" as proof that Israel is an apartheid state.

This is what happens when you're completely ignorant about the conflict, yet still believed by useful idiots to be an expert on the topic.

Palestinians do not vote in Israeli elections for the same reason that Canadians don’t vote in U.S. elections, they are governed by their own authorities.

The last time Palestinians in Gaza had an election, they elected Hamas. In the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority is now entering the 19th year of his 4-year term.

The 2 million Arab citizens of Israel, not Palestinians, but Arab Israelis, vote in Israeli elections. They serve in the Knesset. They sit on the Supreme Court.

Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 after a defensive war triggered by its Arab neighbors' declaration of annihilation.

It wasn’t an unprovoked land grab. It was a survival necessity. A return to 1967 borders would leave Israel 9 miles wide at its narrowest point, a strategic death trap.

Yet, in 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.

As for the West Bank, Israeli military presence remains a security necessity, not a colonial project

A Palestinian state today would become a terror outpost tomorrow, another Gaza, this time overlooking Tel Aviv and the narrow coastal strip that holds 70% of Israel’s population.

If Israel is an apartheid state, it's the worst one in history.

We’ve all heard the usual stuff about Israel controlling the world, the media, the economy, and global leaders. Or the whole ‘Greater Israel’ thing or how they’re secretly planning to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque. But honestly, some of the wild conspiracy theories I’ve personally come across in the Arab world take things to a whole new level of crazy. Enjoy! 1. Magnet in Belts
Israel placed hidden magnets in belts sold to Arab markets to cause male infertility. Traders across the region reported unsold belt stocks piling up because customers became convinced that wearing them would ruin their family lineage. A merchant in Amman cried on live TV “My belts aren’t cursed! They’re just leather!”

In this thread I will show Israel's ongoing efforts to achieve peace and the recurring rejections or missed opportunities by Arab leaders. 1947 UN Partition Plan:
The United Nations proposed partitioning historical Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international control. Jews accepted the plan, but Arabs rejected it outright, leading to the 1948 Arabs war against Israel.