Stephen Mitchell

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@Thebasilisk79 @COLRICHARDKEMP The lies!

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Are you human?

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@piersmorgan @PiersUncensored “. . . everyone . . ”???? 😂

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@piersmorgan Morgan is the new Lord Haw-Haw.

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https://t.co/zg0SXzJgKY

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@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @PiersUncensored Maybe this will answer your question.

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From Hillel Fuld https://t.co/vP0rta3PNQ

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@RichardBurgon Release the hostages!

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Thank you, @SecRubio, for imposing 🇺🇸 U.S. sanctions on the U.N.'s Hamas terrorism supporter Francesca Albanese! Good has triumphed over evil. I proudly joined @UNWatch's campaign for this bold and historic decision. Now it's time for other nations to follow suit: Ban Albanese.

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

🧵No, It Didn’t Start on October 7. It Started in 1987.

Let’s clear something up.

If you’re one of those people who chants “From the river to the sea” and dreams of abolishing Israel altogether - scattering its people to the wind - then I’ll save you some time: this post isn’t for you.

You’re not interested in peace. You’re not interested in history. You’re interested in fantasy. So block me. Mute me. Move along.

But if you’re still here, let me walk you through a bit of actual history. Because I’m tired of the shallow takes that say “It didn’t start on October 7.”

Yes. We know.

But guess what?
It also didn’t start in 1967.
Or in 1948.
Or 1929.
Or 1882.
We can keep going, all the way back to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD if you really want. But that’s not a productive exercise. It’s a trap — a game of historical one-upmanship no one ever wins.

Let’s stick to modern, actionable history.

Because if you’re really asking when this phase of the conflict began, the answer is 1987 - the year Hamas was born.

1987: The Real Turning Point

That’s when this went from a difficult national conflict to a proxy war fueled by forces far beyond Palestine.

Hamas was not established as a national liberation movement for the Palestinians. No.

It was created as a spoiler.

A saboteur.

And yes, it deliberately modeled itself on its slightly older sibling - Hezbollah in Lebanon - which had formally announced itself just two years earlier, in 1985.

At first, Hezbollah wasn’t even called Hezbollah. Its name?
Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya fi Lubnan - the Islamic Resistance Movement in Lebanon.

Then came Hamas in Gaza - using the exact same name: Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya. Just dropping the “Lebanon” bit.

Coincidence?

Not at all.

Hezbollah was birthed and bred by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Hamas emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood, yes - but the branch of the Brotherhood that had cozied up to Iran and the Ayatollahs since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

So, while one was Shia and the other Sunni, they shared something far more important: a common purpose - to destroy any chance of peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

1993: Peace Threatens the Project

Fast forward a few years.

1993 – Oslo Accords.

Yasser Arafat and the PLO accepted the existence of Israel and launched a peace process, starting in Madrid (1991) and culminating in Oslo.

But peace was a threat - not to Palestinians, but to the Iranian project.

So what did Hamas do?

It unleashed a campaign of suicide bombings and terror attacks, all designed to torpedo the peace process.

At the same time, Hamas leaders - Ahmad Yassin, al-Rantisi, al-Zahar, Khaled Meshaal - went on visits to Tehran.

They met Khamenei, praised Khomeini, and declared him the “spiritual father” of their movement. There’s video. Look it up.

They weren’t subtle.

Because this was never just about resisting Israeli occupation.
It was about resisting any resolution that didn’t come through endless war - war that Iran could weaponise.

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@piersmorgan Piers, would you mind posting today’s IDF statement? I can’t find anything. Thanks in advance.

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. . and in that tiny strip of land called Israel is Gaza, which Israel handed over to Gazans in 2005. Then Gazans elected Hamas!

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@piersmorgan Like your ‘interview’ with Natasha Hausdorff?

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@HilzFuld ‘Deluded’

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@piersmorgan Piers, you behaved abominably and literally bullied someone who just wanted to answer your questions without you constantly interrupting with your own views. You deserve no respect at all, particularly from Natasha Hausdorff.

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@piersmorgan And you ask why journalists aren’t allowed in Gaza? Maybe it’s because the IDF are truly concerned for their safety!!

[Oren Barsky @orenbarsky]

I can’t believe this hasn’t gotten 10 million views.

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https://t.co/tyel6GvSqY

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@mishtal No words to describe the brilliance of your perseverance and investigative journalist abilities. Thank you David!

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Listen up. I am Jordanian, and I tell you that the two-state solution is dead, stone cold. And I’ll tell you why.

Back in 1994, when Yitzhak Rabin was ready to hand the Palestinians a state on a silver platter, who was the loudest voice against it? Benjamin Netanyahu. And what did the world call him? A radical, an enemy of peace, a warmonger. Even inside Israel, many thought he was being extreme. But was he?

Bibi’s argument was simple: You don’t hand a state to people who openly declare that your country has no right to exist and that their ultimate goal is to wipe you off the map. That’s not a “peace process”, that’s national suicide.

He understood the security risks. A Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) would leave Israel a mere 9 miles wide at its narrowest point. That’s nothing. That’s an easy invasion route. That’s a security nightmare. It would take minutes to cut Israel in half and massacre its people.

But did Israel listen? Of course not. In 2000, Ehud Barak came back and sweetened the deal. He offered Arafat a state again. Thank God Arafat said no. And why did he say no? Because he never wanted a state, he wanted Israel gone.

Fast forward to 2005. Ariel Sharon tried another approach. He said, “Fine, let’s give them a test run.” So he pulled every single Jew out of Gaza, 70,000 settlers, forcibly removed. He even went so far as to dig up Jewish graves to ensure Gaza was 100% Judenrein. No excuses left. The Palestinians had a chance to prove they could run a state.

So what did they do? Did they build hospitals, schools, and infrastructure? Did they work on nation-building? Did they take this golden opportunity and create a thriving mini-state to prove to the world that they were ready for independence?

Nope. Instead, they turned Gaza into a terrorist launchpad. Since 2005, Gaza has been a rocket factory, a jihadist training camp, and a tunnel network straight out of a horror movie. Billions in aid poured in, and instead of building a future, Hamas built weapons to destroy Israel.

So let’s go back to the original question: Who was right, the dreamers who kept offering the Palestinians a state or Bibi Netanyahu, who warned them this would be a disaster?

The answer is clear. Bibi was right. The Palestinians never cared about statehood. They only cared about destroying the Jewish state.

And this is the part most people don’t want to say out loud: This conflict was never about “occupation.” That was always a lie. The West Bank and Gaza are just convenient excuses. The real issue is Islamic jihad.

Bibi understands this better than anyone. The people Israel has been negotiating with for decades don’t want borders. They want annihilation. It’s not about compromise. It’s about erasing Israel from the map.

So, no, the two-state solution isn’t “dying.” It’s already dead. And it’s been dead since the first time Israel tried to make peace with people who don’t believe in peace.

Danny Burmawi