MUST WATCH interview on @News24Aust with the extraordinary @RawaneOsmane.
Born in Damascus, raised in Lebanon and once taught to hate Jews, she now considers herself a "reformed antisemite" and has been fearlessly exposing the virulent Jew-hatred in the Arab world.
Today, Rawan also understands something that too many in the West still refuse to: that standing with Israel is standing up for Western civilisation.
Rawan is currently visiting Australia. What an incredible person!
@AbdulElSayed I’m beginning to doubt your title Dr. after looking at how you can’t even use proper opening and closing double quotes in your statement.
My entire world collapsed when I publicly spoke against Hamas' terrorism on October 7. My Egyptian, Arab, and Muslim people, who are so blinded by Jew-hatred and so proud of supporting Hamas terrorism, tried to kill or imprison me for doing so. But my Jewish friends miraculously saved me.
Every single day since then, God shows me that I made the right decision.
Many thanks to @TsipiBen and @Or_Shaked for this great profile in the @IsraelHayomEng newspaper.
(See the next post in the thread for the link)
Book by Adrian Reland (1676-1718) about Palestine, published in Utrecht in 1714:
* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.
* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians. In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.
* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.
* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name. Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.
* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians.
The book completely debunks theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land's Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves.
@AbdulElSayed Pathetic mini-ayatollahs always believe they are the saviours of the West. Unfortunately, many woke leftists are simply useful idiots who fall for this scam.
The Great Gaza Scam; Just Listen to Hamas: What you’re seeing in this video is the plain truth, even though it’s coming from slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. I was directly involved in one of the efforts he’s indirectly referring to. This is a confession from a jihadist organization responsible for immense harm, acknowledging that Gaza’s blockade & conditions were not because Israel was hell‑bent on blocking development. Israel became the lazy, convenient explanation & excuse for people unwilling to look beneath the surface and understand what actually happened in Gaza over the last twenty years.
Here, the head of Hamas admits there were real offers on the table: an airport, a seaport, new industries, major cash infusions – opportunities dating back to 2014. Former Israeli officials like Shaul Mofaz floated plans to raise tens of billions for Gaza’s development, and large parts of Israel’s security establishment were open to letting Gaza grow and prosper. Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Western governments were prepared to invest serious money, far beyond just humanitarian aid.
In 2015, I launched a multi‑year effort to build an internationally run, Israeli‑approved airport in al‑Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip. The proposal drew intrigue from senior Israeli officials, including Herzi Halevi and Avigdor Lieberman. In 2017, through intermediaries, I even appealed directly to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s former chief and architect of October 7, urging him to consider the airport proposal and think strategically about Gaza’s future.
So, what was the price that Israel and the world wanted in exchange for all of this?
As Haniyeh states in this video, the price was Gaza’s disarmament and demilitarization so that it wouldn’t be dragged into endless, self‑destructive wars. Hamas was offered a dignified off‑ramp: integrating its employees and former fighters into civilian police, receiving salaries, and shifting toward nation‑building instead of terrorism. That offer was real, with a political pathway for the group.
After October 7, and Gaza’s vast destruction, tens of thousands killed, and $ billions wasted, Hamas is forcibly entertaining disarmament and demilitarization. This video exposes the “resistance” cheerleaders who celebrated October 7 and the Westerners who insist Gaza could never have developed because of Israel. Listen to Hamas; whether you support them or think they are useful idiots, Gaza’s development was blocked because the terror Islamist group turned the territory into a fortress of violence, tunnels, rockets, smuggling, and radicalization. And no, Gaza and the West Bank are not comparable cases. Gaza had a genuine chance to become the crown jewel of the Palestinian people, a truly compelling model of prosperity and self‑rule.
The pathway forward requires introspection, accountability, responsibility, and Palestinian agency.