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Foundation for Defense of Democracies - Israel Complied with UN Resolutions; Peace Never Came @ fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

Where were you in 2005 Mariam when Israel did just that. And what did it get in return? Hamas takeover of Gaza and Oct 7. Israel also did it in Lebanon in 2000. What did it get? Look at the Israeli north.

UN Secretary-General Guterres believes the end of Palestinian and Lebanese violence against Israel will only result from more Israeli withdrawals, as if 3 decades of Israeli concessions haven’t proven the futility of compromising, writes Hussain Abdul-Hussain: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

Irony of all ironies: Said the non-practicing ANGLOPHONE “Palestinian” Protestant advocate of Palestinianist Arabism who abhorred EVERYTHING Lebanon stood for (including his Lebanese-Egyptian #VictoriaCollege abuser) is himself Lebanese buried in Broumana’s Protestant cemetery.

Hamas account is sad that Israeli troops displaced Jenin residents and celebrating. But we thought Hamas had a plan: Resistance cells, teaching the Israelis a lesson, and liberating Palestine. Hamas believed its own lies, overestimated its power and underestimated Israel’s.

اذا ما ماتوا بيقولوا انتصرنا واذا ماتوا بيقولوا انتصرنا واذا انتصروا بيقولوا انتصرنا واذا انهزموا بيقولوا انتصرنا. يستحيل اي نقاش عقلاني عندما تكون النتيجة محسومة إلهيا. كمية الماورائيات في النقاش تحيله عبثيا.

A Gazan observes that frequency of Hamas military operations in Gaza has been gradually declining to the extent that a week might pass without Hamas killing one Israeli troop. Israel’s losses in Gaza have become negligible. Hamas CAN be defeated.

Acts have consequences. Nullifying the effect of the fence that separated Gaza from Israel necessitated a buffer zone. If you have ideas, other than handing over more territory to Hamas Palestinians, share them Amnesty International, even though I know that ideas aren’t your thing.

It does not make sense that America imposes sanctions on Islamist #Iran regime in Iran but no on the Islamist Iran regime in Iraq.

David Brooks is to America what Hazem Saghiyeh is to the Arabic-speaking world -- an intellectual superpower. In NYT today, David presents two models, junk (TikTok, social media) vs classic (reading a book). Junk culture appeals to dopamine's instant gratification of the brains,

ينفرد حازم صاغية على رأس هرم المثقفين والنخبة العرب، ويمكن للمعجبين به، من أمثالي، أن يشكّلوا صورة كاملة حول فكر الرجل بسبب غزارة كتاباته. مثلا، في هذا المقال، ينتقد "العودة"، من دون أن يربطها بعودة الفلسطينيين الى إسرائيل، ويصف العودة على أنها ضرب من ضروب الفكر الديني الخيالي.

And it doesn’t matter to Mouin how Mizrahi Jews identify themselves. They’re Arab whether they like it or not.

I’m sorry that a Turkish American lost her life during a protest in the West Bank. My question is: What made a Turkish American think that she had the right to protest in a foreign country? Tourists, anywhere, have no political rights.

Hey Senator Senator Chris Van Hollen: Check out who’s happy with your statement and circulating it: #Qatar’s Al-Jazeera. Qatar houses Hamas’s Khaled Meshaal, whom America accuses of complicity in the crimes that killed the Americans you’re worried about.

Another Barghouti, this time the “poet” of Islamist resistance, who thinks that “from the river to the sea Palestine should be Arab” (not supremacist at all), is blaming Arab Israelis for celebrating weddings of their children while Gaza suffers and says the he knows they can’t

The number of Palestinians who want to see two states, one for the Arabs and one for the Jews, is less than five. And yet America blames Israel for the absence of peace and two states.

Will the U.S. try to extradite Khaled Meshaal from its ally Qatar? FDD Orde F. Kittrie quoted on the many other steps the Biden-Harris can take to bring justice to Hamas terrorists and their enablers who murdered Americans. jewishinsider.com/2024/09/khaled…

Long stretches of time pass these days without terrorist groups announcing any attacks on Israeli military. When they do, the announcement is usually unverifiable and inconsequential. Gone are the days when Al-Jazeera flooded the world with reports on Palestinian ambushes and

Good luck finding the word terrorist as a description of Hamas in the NY Times, Wash Post, NPR, etc. But what can one call these violent, non-state actor, thugs? Freedom fighters? Two sides for every story?