My mother’s family is Lebanese Shiite. My father’s, Sunni, from Damascus. I grew up in Lebanon. I went to a French Catholic school. And we lived through war.
The Lebanese civil war. Then the wars with Israel.
The south was occupied by Israelis fed up with terrorists crossing the border. The rest of the country was occupied by the Syrian army, which ruled every part of our lives and terrorized the powerful just as much as the powerless.
Shelling. Checkpoints. Edgy adults. Trauma. Disrupted life. Shouting. Sonic booms. The radio. The TV. The newspapers.
Israel. The Zionists. The Jews.
It was all because of the Jews.
One day, Israel will disappear, they said. Soon, said Hassan Nasrallah. Eventually, it will be destroyed. That was the general belief, repeated so often it stopped sounding like an opinion and started sounding like a fact.
As a child, I asked: why is Israel doing this to us?
Because the Jews are the Jews.
That was the whole answer. Nobody needed a better one.
In my mid-twenties, after my divorce, I decided to raise my son in Europe. I moved to France. I ended up in Strasbourg, surrounded by Jews.
On the first day, I had a panic attack.
That stopped me. It forced a question I had never asked myself: why? Why this reaction, to nothing, to no one, to strangers on a street?
Because I was sharing space with the enemy.
Why is the Jew the enemy?
I had never met one.
So I started thinking. Reading. Zooming out.
And I realized: everything I knew about the Jew was not true.
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This man should not permit his wife to listen to Candace Owens anymore.
A godly husband has a responsibility before God to protect his wife & his household.
This may mean that, for the good of his household, he does not permit his wife to read or listen to certain voices that he deems pernicious or unhelpful.
And a godly wife will joyfully submit to these boundaries that her husband has laid down.
BREAKING: @United Airlines is reportedly offering free flight changes to passengers who want to AVOID landing at Donald Trump International Airport (formerly Palm Beach International Airport), according to an internal memo obtained by Live and Let's Fly.
This is Mario, a 72 year old Italian man sentenced to 14 years in prison for shooting and killing two criminals who had robbed his jewelry store. Mario does not deserve prison; he deserves a medal for civic valor.
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens would be nothing less than to admit the Trojan horse into the citadel of our liberty & sovereignty."
guy told me his wife went off birth control to try for a baby… & suddenly wasn’t attracted to him anymore & changed her entire personality. 8 years together. 2 years married. hormones are one hell of a drug & girls on birth control are literally brain dead zombies— just imagine what vaccines & ssri’s do
FIRST ON LOTT: Wesley Ford, the man who was fired from @Chilis for refusing to use made-up pronouns, spoke with us after he went viral for standing up to woke gender ideology.
"Libs of TikTok picked it up and shared it... the moment that happened, EVERYTHING changed... The amount of messages and support I got, it just started pouring in!"
"Americans are sick of this. This is not a Republican or Democrat thing... people are just tired of this being forced upon them."