Bernice Gitau

[Abbie Gal𓃵 ( Executive Chef of The Year ) @ChefGaella254]

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[Wild Flower 🌸 @muchina_sherry]

A friend's mum has been missing for a week now. She was last seen in Tigoni. Please help us share this until we find her..

[Wamathai @Wamathai]

Emmanuel Mukuria Kamau is still missing

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

🚨 MISSING PERSON ALERT 🚨

Eddy, an autistic teenager, has gone missing along Tom Mboya Street, Nairobi CBD. Due to his condition, he may struggle to communicate clearly.

Anyone with information can contact:

📞 Emmerculate: 0722 522 883
📞 Sylvance: 0721 862 116

Family and friends are calling on the public to help locate him. Share widely.

[Eve-Olution @nd4nu]

Hi again,
My boy is in critical care at Aga Khan, Parklands and he needs platelet donation.
If you are willing and able to donate please DM me for the specific details.
Thank you and share widely🙏🏾

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

I just realized I’ve never actually written a full post breaking down the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. I made a video about it, but not a post.

So buckle up...

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

This wasn’t some thriving Arab kingdom. It was a backwater, largely ignored by the Ottoman rulers, left to rot under inefficient governance.

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. The Ottomans didn’t carve up their empire into neat little nation-states. They ran a sprawling empire where local tribes and sects paid taxes to Istanbul and mostly governed themselves.

Then came the Zionists. Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, didn’t start this movement because of some divine mandate. His motivation wasn’t biblical, 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.

And they didn’t just sit on that land; they transformed it. Tel Aviv was founded in 1909. Haifa’s port was developed between 1910 and 1912. Swamps were drained, fields were cultivated, cities were built. What had been a stagnant, neglected wasteland was suddenly becoming productive, vibrant.

Here’s the part nobody likes to talk about: As Jewish settlements grew, so did Arab migration into those areas. Why? 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. This doesn’t fit the “Zionist invaders” narrative, so you won’t hear it in most history books, but it’s the truth.

Fast-forward to World War I. The Ottoman Empire collapsed, and Britain and France swooped in to divide the remains. 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.

The Europeans weren’t playing some simple “divide and rule” game, they 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, humiliated. And then, 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.

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

Here’s the irony: 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.

Arab leaders started boycotting “Palestinian goods”, which meant Jewish-made goods. Meanwhile, newspapers in the region talked about "Arabs invading Palestine." Invading? From where? If this was historically an Arab homeland, why were they calling it an invasion?

Because it wasn’t. The land was a mix of communities, filling up with newcomers, Arab and Jew alike.

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 97% of the West Bank and Gaza.

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.

Since its founding, Israel has been at war for its survival. It has been outnumbered, attacked from all sides, and yet, it still offered peace over and over again, only to be met with rejection.

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

Meanwhile, Israel didn’t just survive. It thrived. It turned desert into farmland, built one of the world’s most advanced economies, and became a global tech powerhouse.

And it did all of this while under constant attack.

The Truth About the Conflict
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.

[Saroyah♡ྀི🎀 @saroyahx]

Families in Sudan are eating the shells of peanuts mixed with oil to survive. Famine is worsening in Darfur, Khartoum & the Nuba Mountains. 4.7 million children under 5, along with pregnant & breastfeeding women & girls are suffering from acute malnutrition #KeepEyesOnSudan

[Bernice Gitau @bernice_gitau]

@Honeyfarsafi @HonKangata Happy birthday @HonKangata for doing that which you were elected to do and avoiding all the sideshows

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

🚨 MISSING PERSON ALERT 🚨

NAME: Jarso Wario Jarso
COUNTY: Marsabit
SUB COUNTY: Moyale
LOCATION: Golole
SUB LOCATION: Karbururi
WORK: BodaBoda
MISSING SINCE: Last Friday

[Prieste$$ TelzzzzZZ @tela_wangeci]

Hey lovelies, I hope y'all are well. My cousin recently fell ill at the end of January and was admitted to Coptic Hospital, where he was diagnosed w DKA, Hypertension,Pulmonary Oedema and Cardiomegaly. He started out at ICU, but we thank God for his progress, and he's currently in HDU. As a family, we are requesting contributions towards his health bill, which currently stands at 1.6million tbh anything would go a long way. Ata 50/=. Kindly retweet 💕💫

[Wamathai @Wamathai]

Emmanuel Mukuria Kamau is still missing

[StormLegacy @StormLegacy92]

Support my hustle with just a retweet 🙏🏾

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

🚨 MISSING PERSON ALERT 🚨

Name: Ben Njuuka Njogu
From: Turi, Molo
Last Seen: 22nd September 2024
Location: Kawangware

If you have any information contact: 0727118351

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

🚨 Missing Person Alert 🚨

Name: Elvis Munene
Last Seen: Wednesday at 5 PM
Location: Mwalimu Cooperative House

If you have any information that could help locate him please call: 0713575973.

[_________Nka 🐣 @nkatha_maureen]

Good morning, X Family!
My brother needs our help, and any small contribution or RT will make a difference.
If this appears on your TL, please help us amplify it. 🫶🏽
God bless you, and thank you in advance! 🙏🏽

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

🚨 MISSING CHILD ALERT🚨

Name: Emmanuel Wambua
From: Kayole
Date Missing: January 28, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM
Last Seen Wearing: Black trousers, grey shirt, and a maroon sweater
School: Golden Bridge Education Center, Kayole

If you have any information regarding Emmanuel Wambua's whereabouts contact: Mother: Hellen Mwende - 0706227483 or Grandmother: Philomena - 0713126675

[🇵🇸 Babu @alaminkimathi]

Hello Kenya,
This evil man must be stopped. @CJ_Haslett has been fighting him alone, and it's time everyone else takes it up to save so many youth from a sex fiend messing up their lives.

[NothingKE @KeNothing]

If it appears on your TL just retweet until he is found.
Keith Kipkurui Kiptanui is a 3rd year TUK student Mombasa,

#FreeKeithKipkuruiKiptanui

#EndAbductionKE

[khalif kairo @KhalifKairo]

Willis Otieno a good friend of ours is missing, If you have any information about his whereabouts, please don’t hesitate to reach out on the numbers listed below.