Shadee Elmasry – Ground Invasion of Gaza and the Impact of Social Media Sami Hamdi NBF 268

So I think now all eyes are on this potential ground invasion

that might take place. It's becoming increasingly imminent

based on the information that's coming out. Israel wants to go in,

there are suggestions that it's going this time to try to occupy

northern Gaza, and that Netanyahu is peace offering to the Israelis

who are protesting on the street against him and blaming him for

what they call to be the greatest crisis to Israel since 1948.

Netanyahu believes that the best way to resolve it is to take more

land from the Palestinians give it to the Israeli settlers, and

they'll forgive him for it. The problem is, there are three

obstacles that Israel and Washington are scrambling to try

to resolve before they begin a ground invasion. The first is the

issue of where the Palestinians will go. And that's why there's

heavy pressure on Sisi in Egypt to open the Rafah crossing. I've seen

a lot of criticism of CZ, that it's callous that he's kept that

Bookcrossing close. But I do think and I'm not defending him if I was

in a position I'd open it. But I do think that one of the reasons

CeCe doesn't want to open it is because he knows that the Israelis

want to drive the Palestinians into the Sinai Peninsula, where

they will live in new refugee camps and the Israelis will never

allow them to return afterwards, after they finished their ground

operation and CCP is going down in history as being complicit in a

new Nakba in Gaza. The second obstacle is Iranian proxies.

There's deep concern that Hezbollah in Lebanon in Lebanon is

waiting for the Israelis to get bogged down in Gaza, because the

Israelis don't have a very good history of ground operations in

Gaza. Every time they go in, they struggle, they get bogged down,

they end up with a lot of casualties. There's concern that

once they go into Gaza, Hezbollah will cross over from the north,

and those who remember 2008 2009. It's generally considered that the

Israelis lost to Hezbollah that Netanyahu was unable to subdue

them in the last year with Hezbollah. And the third obstacle

is public opinion as a result of social media breaking Israel's

monopoly on the narrative as a result of everybody sharing

Palestinian content as a result of the liberation of the algorithms,

particularly on Twitter and the like, allowing pro Palestinian

content popular property and content to appear on new home

pages. And the light is really struggling with the narrative and

anybody who opens Washington Post. You'll notice that underneath the

headline about Blinken visit to Saudi and Egypt. Washington Post

describes it the reason for Lincoln's visit was to ask Saudi

Arabia, Egypt and these countries to try to turn down public

opinion. And we're seeing videos now of some scholars in Saudi who

are now saying that citizens should stop talking about Gaza,

because Willie al Amer is the one who knows about the issue, and

that you all have your analysis is causing an unnecessary burden. So

there are these are the three obstacles now to Grand invasion.

There are reports that the Americans have sent a Three Star

Marine General to Israel today to discuss the risks according to

some of the reports of the risks of a ground invasion, by Dennis

trying to pressure the Israelis to hold off on the ground invasion.

They're not sure whether it's wise or not, they'll and the final

thing that's worth mentioning on this is that the hammer saw and

the other Palestinian factions are trying to fend off the ground

invasion. There are reports that the Red Cross is now to receive 50

hostages of dual nationality that are due to be released as a result

of negotiations with Qatar, the idea being that if they can

release those 50 dual nationalities, then the Americans

can get the Israelis to put off the ground invasion. But the one

thing that is worth noting here is the idea of the grand invasion

suggests that Netanyahu has the initiative and he is the one in

the ascendancy. But the reason NETIO is going into the ground

invasion is because no matter how much he bombs, Gaza, he's unable

to wipe away the humiliation that he suffered at the hands of the

Palestinians, and also the humiliation that he suffered. In

that breaking of the monopoly on the narrative. I assume that

you're in the US. But we've seen videos here on social media of

DeSantis, the Republican candidate going into a supermarket trying to

say Israel has the right to self defense and Americans responding

and saying we don't believe you anymore because of what we've

seen. So I think that the public opinion, Iran and the issue of

where to put the Palestinians are the reasons why it's been delayed,

but all talk to answer your question directly. All talk is on

an imminent ground invasion. Nobody knows when but it's

certainly building up to it. I'm going to ask one question, then

I'm going to turn it over to Chicago and I don't know if you've

ever met, but you can find him on Twitter. Chicago insider, you're

still on Twitter, right? I asked you have you tried to get off but

I felt like I had to get back on to kind of talk about this stuff.

Yeah, to add and to help at least dictate the points. Schiff had on

this from Philistine you are also from Philistine. I'm from North

Africa. Algerians are renowned for their support. Okay. One one

people. Yeah.

We saw in the World Cup how Morocco was there were more

Palestinian flags than Moroccan flags held by the Moroccan fence

so Allah reward them for that. I want to ask you the first

question.

I was think

Ken yesterday, the public opinion worldwide is now swaying, maybe

not in America, but in the rest of the world. It's swinging against

Israel heart, it's not hard to fathom, and to imagine the Mossad

doing something, inflicting something upon themselves. So

egregious.

That will, that will then be pinned on to Hamas and justify all

this all over again. Because the Republic event is going so far, I

believe that's a possibility. What are your thoughts on that?

I think certainly, it's a possibility. And we've already

seen the attempts to do that. I think that when you remember the

story of the 40, beheaded babies, and the way that it was

proliferated on mainstream media and amongst Israeli allies, I

think the reason that story went so wide, why it was really pushed

was because the videos that were coming out actually showed

magnanimous fighters coming out those channel 12 In Israel, where

the woman says they came into my house, they said, they won't hurt

me because they're Muslim. And then one of them asked me for a

banana. And they left after two hours, there was an interview with

Israeli radio, which was caught live. And the section was later

deleted, of a woman who described that when the Palestinians came

in, they didn't harm any civilians. But when the Israelis

came to liberated they shot some of the hostages and shot some of

the Israelis in order to try to say that the Palestinians did it.

There is also deep concern for anybody who follows Israeli

journalists, that a lot of the families of the hostages in Israel

itself are complaining that Netanyahu is showing no regard for

the hostages that he's going in, and that they're not a priority

that he prioritizes the annexation of the Gaza strip over the lives

of those particular hostages. And that's why I think that Israel has

been pushing it, if you remember the hospital when they bombed the

hospital in the hospital, and they tried to blame it on a Hamas

rocket, which was later debunked by forensic investigators. And oh,

since then the light, because there is this deep concern about

the shift in public opinion. And you were saying maybe not in

America, but the polls that came out two days ago, suggested at

least 53 54% of Americans are now in favor of an immediate ceasefire

in Gaza, they no longer buy, and that's unprecedented for the US.

And in the UK. We have a YouGov poll, which is one of the reliable

pollsters that says that more than 76% of Britons are in favor of an

immediate ceasefire. And that's quite simply unprecedented. So I

think that when you when you talk about the concern about Mossad

staging something they've already tried to stage something with

regards to the 14th beheaded babies. They tried to stage

something by saying that the woman was killed and paraded on the

streets and a news week later published and said that she was

actually being taken to a hospital where she was receiving treatment.

They tried to say that they were raped. So that occurred but then

the eyewitness accounts of Israeli settlers themselves said we never

saw any of these things that the Israelis are saying. And that's

why it's important to stress here. And it builds on your point, as

Dr. Asim Qureshi from from cage said on Twitter when I was reading

it, he said, you know, the Israelis are telling us what is

happening. But the Palestinians are showing us what is happening.

And it's becoming abundantly clear through social media. The vivid

images of what's happening is forcing the shift in social media.

And so while your question implies that Mossad might do something I

would stress they have, and they are failing so far, as a result of

public opinion when you ask Haroon Are you still using Twitter and he

says I'm using Twitter because I want to promote the Palestinian

cause. The reality is this war of narratives is being won on social

media. BBC presenter apologized not because the BBC editorial

board said she did anything wrong. She apologized because the social

media was so overwhelming. And the feedback was so overwhelming. They

had no choice but to apologize. CNN the reason they apologize was

not because the Israeli said we're unhappy with your narrative. They

apologized because the social media was so huge. They had to

apologize Sky News, which I never thought we'd ever apologize for

any content on Palestine came out and apologized because they

presented Kay Bernie had said that the Palestinian ambassador said

the Israelis had it coming. And Sky News apologize for that

publicly, the State Department in the US you have the resignation of

one of the main directors and blinkin has to hold the listening

session two days ago with his staff to plead with them not to

resign because they're feeling the pressure from social media. So I

think that it's true that Mossad might be planning something more,

but I'll finish on this point. But the point is that they have tried,

they have pushed and they're failing every single time, not

because of government campaigns by Muslim nations or the like, but

because of the ordinary people using their social media, and

demanding the approval of the veracity of all information.

That's what's making them crumble. And this is why what's important

to note here is this is genuinely a battle where you can see the

real impact of the mobilisation of the Ummah and all Allies of

justice outside of them. It's a it's a great time actually, for

anyone who cares about a journalism epistemology to watch.

And to watch it cannot be denied. Yeah, right. And this is what they

call the new media where everyone's little cell phone

combined together actually brings you certainty

yield certainty and exposes lies