@RealBababanaras Haha the UN has said the kids in gaza are literally the best fed in the middle east. Some โgenocideโโฆ.the only genocide perpetuated was on the Israel settlements attacked on Oct 7.
@Pontifex When the โpalestiniansโ donโt actually want a two state solution? They only want to wipe out Israel. They have refused every offer of peace and a two state solution
๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ช๐ข๐ ๐๐ก ๐ช๐๐ข ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ช๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ช๐๐ ๐ง๐ข ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ โ ๐ข๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐.
In 2006, a Syrian-American psychiatrist named Wafa Sultan sat down on Al Jazeera and said something that sent a shockwave through the Arab world. Not a Western conservative. Not an Israeli spokesman. An Arab woman, raised Muslim, speaking in Arabic, on the most-watched Arabic television network on earth.
She opened with a simple principle: ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ. Believe what you want. But other people's beliefs are not your concern.
Then she drew the contrast that made this clip travel around the world:
The Jews came out of the Holocaust and forced the world to respect them โ ๐ป๐ผ๐ with terror, not with crying and yelling, but with work and knowledge. Fifteen million people scattered across the globe, producing the greatest scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries. United. Effective. Earned.
Then the challenge, delivered directly: ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ.
Then the Buddha statues โ the Taliban had just blown up the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. She noted: not a single Buddhist burned a mosque, k!lled a Muslim, or destroyed an embassy in response. Not one.
Her conclusion was not an attack on a faith. It was a demand for accountability from a civilization: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ.
The host sat there with nothing to say.
Wafa Sultan paid a price for that appearance. Dโath threats. Exile. The full machinery of religious fury directed at a woman who had the audacity to hold a mirror up to her own civilization.
She looked anyway.
This clip is almost twenty years old. Watch it and ask yourself how much of what she said has changed โ and how much of it explains everything happening right now, as a regime that spent 47 years exporting exactly that violence finally faces the consequences.
๐ฆ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ต๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ.