لم يكن الفنان الدومينيكاني ( بولين 47 ) يتوقع أن يتحول لقاء عابر في أحد شوارع دولة إسبانيا إلى لحظة فارقة تزيد من شهرته وتكسبه محبة ملايين الأشخاص ! 🇪🇸
بدأت القصة عندما كان صانع المحتوى ( كيفن واي ) يستوقف المارة ويشغّل إيقاعات موسيقى الديمبو عبر مكبر صوت صغير، محاولاً دفعهم إلى الغناء والإرتجال معه. بعض الفنانين كانوا يتجاهلونه ويواصلون طريقهم، بينما كان آخرون يكتفون بإبتسامة عابرة دون مشاركة حقيقية، لكن ( بولين 47 ) إختار أن يتصرف بطريقة مختلفة تماماً؛ إذ توقف وتفاعل مع الشاب بحماس، وبدأ يغني ويرتجل ويرقص معه، دون تكبّر أو شعور بأنه أكبر من هذه اللحظة العفوية.
تحول اللقاء إلى ظاهرة إجتاحت مواقع التواصل، وتجاوز المقطع الأصلي 65 مليون مشاهدة خلال أيام قليلة. ولم يتوقف الأمر عند الإنتشار الواسع، بل إستثمر ( بولين 47 وكيفن ) نجاحهما والكيمياء التي ظهرت بينهما في إصدار أغنية رسمية، ليحوّلا إرتجالاً عفوياً في الشارع إلى تعاون موسيقي حقيقي. وربما لم يكن ( بولين 47 ) يحظى قبل هذه الواقعة بالقدر نفسه من الإنتشار الذي حققه بعدها، لكن تفاعله الطبيعي وتواضعه جعلا جمهوراً أكبر يكتشفه ويتعرف على فنه وشخصيته. 🎤🎵
واللافت في هذه القصة أن الفرق لم يكن في الموسيقى أو الكاميرا، بل في طريقة تعامل كل شخص مع الموقف نفسه؛ فبينما تجاهل البعض ( كيفن ) ومنحه آخرون إبتسامة سريعة، إختار ( بولين 47 ) أن يتوقف ويشاركه الغناء بكل عفوية، فكانت النتيجة إنتشاراً عالمياً ومحبة جماهيرية متزايدة.
وهنا تظهر العبرة الحقيقية : التواضع قد يكون باباً للشهرة، والإنسانية قد تمنحك ما لا تستطيع الأموال شراءه.
Hamas and the Houthis share the same pathological creed.
It is the creed common to all radical Islamist organizations: hatred of Jews, the centrality of violence, and the terrorizing of neighbors to achieve political ends.
Now imagine a Houthi-like state established on the border of any other Arab state.
The danger it would pose is immediate and obvious. This is precisely why a Palestinian state run by Hamas or like-minded organizations is a genuine threat to the entire Middle East.
Hamas had its chance to show what a Palestinian state could look like in 2005. It turned its money into tunnels, rockets, and a launchpad against Israel.
That was the prelude. The Houthis extend the same example. Another Palestinian state should enter people's minds as another Houthi state.
The Palestinians deserve to live in dignity, side by side with Israel. But for that to happen, a Palestinian leadership that does not share the Hamas-Houthi mindset must be in charge, and I am skeptical of seeing such a leadership on the near horizon.
Until we have that leadership, the responsibility is solely Palestinian, and only then can we talk about other options for peace.
As of now, the danger of another Houthi state must be eliminated, and its acceptance must be absolutely out of the question.
"London: it's gone... Paris: gone... Berlin: gone."
As foreigner-led riots ravage European cities, journalist Tommy Robinson sounds the alarm on far-left ideology joining forces with violent Islamic extremism. @TRobinsonNewEra@RobFinnertyUSA
🔴 Interesting fact ahead of the weekend:
Jurgen Klopp led Liverpool to the two highest non-fraudulent points totals in Premier League history!
99 points in 2020 and 97 points in 2019. Klopp's also the only manager to reach 90+ points three times without cheating
A true legend of the game
USAID has officially shut down its headquarters:
In other words, President Trump and Elon Musk have toppled the greatest terrorist organization on the planet in human history.
A Letter to the World’s Leftists and to Righteous People : 7th of October. There are days history writes in ink, days it writes in tears, and days so terrible that history writes their names in blood. October 7 was such a day. The morning came quietly. Some were sleeping. Some were praying. Mothers were beside their children. Then Hamas terrorists, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, entered homes in Israel. Blood. Fire. Screams. Women were raped. Children were burned. Families were executed. Babies were kidnapped. Jews were hunted and murdered.
Homes that once held prayers, laughter and children's footsteps became places of death. Beds became graves. A mother's arms became empty. A child's room waited for a child who would not return.
There are no words large enough for such grief. Only the silence afterward. The silence of a mother waiting for her child. The silence left when evil has finished screaming.
Once again, Jews were murdered for being Jews. An ancient nightmare suddenly had a date in the present tense. The old hatred had found new mouths and new excuses.
From my country, the United Arab Emirates, a Muslim Arab country, came a voice within minutes calling it by its name: A terrorist attack. No excuse. No ideology can make rape resistance. No slogan can make burning a child justice. No flag can make kidnapping a baby freedom.
And yet, London. Paris. Toronto. You would have expected tears. Instead, people celebrated while Jewish families searched for the missing and children remained with kidnappers. People waved the flag of the kidnappers of babies instead of demanding freedom for the babies.
This was another wound of October 7. Innocent people were murdered, while others had forgotten how to mourn them. It felt as though civilisation had turned backwards. Back toward 1936. Back toward the old darkness. That was where morals failed.
I have travelled to universities around the world and stood beside Jewish communities attacked simply for being Jewish, to tell them: You have a friend here.
When the Holocaust happened, I was not there. I cannot go backwards and stop the trains or take one terrified child by the hand. But I was alive on October 7. And I had a choice.
One day my children may ask: Where did you stand? I want to tell them: I stood with the baby, not his kidnapper. I stood with the mother, not her rapist. I stood with the murdered, not the murderer. I stood with the Jew hunted simply for being a Jew.
When people found sophisticated words to excuse barbarism, I chose humanity's simplest word: No. No to rape. No to kidnapping. No to burning children. No to terrorism. No to antisemitism.
Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, may have lost in Gaza, but an ideology does not die because it loses a battlefield. Look at the streets of the West, universities, some parliaments and city councils. Too many young minds have become hostages to propaganda for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran's proxies in the West.
When you become silent about an October 7, you do not guarantee that October 7 will remain in the past.
Hatred begins as a sentence before it becomes a scream. Extremism begins as an excuse before it becomes an act. Evil first asks to be tolerated, then excused, then normalised.
Remember October 7. Remember the empty beds. Remember the empty arms. Remember the kidnapped. Remember the murdered. Remember Jewish families hunted in the one place every human should believe is safe: home.
Be like my country, the UAE, where antisemitism is not an opinion to celebrate. It is a crime. Where the Muslim Brotherhood is banned, not romanticised as activists.
History will ask something simple: When a child cried, where did you stand?
On October 7, I knew my answer. With the baby, not the kidnapper. With the mother, not her rapist. With the innocent, not the terrorist.
And when my children read this chapter of history, I want them to know: Their father did not look away.
@thetruthin Being an Indian myself, would fear for the women in my life, (mother, sisters, family and friends) if I were living in India. Even after #Nirbhaya nothing changed for the better, but instead has gotten worse.