Shadee Elmasry – What Should We Focus On in Palestine Sami Hamdi NBF 268
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fight the battles that you know that you can win and where you
won't get caught into a mudslinging competition. By that I
mean that we will focus on the issue of the civilian casualties,
the rights of the Palestinians not to live under occupation, the
violence that Israel implicates on the occupied people, the way that
they've monopolize the narratives, and everybody's sudden wake up
suddenly waking up to it, the realities of the Palestinians who
live under the Israeli occupation, you will notice that human rights,
which today is using the word apartheid, amnesties using the
word apartheid, apartheid is being used on the Congress floor, these
things are unprecedented. You couldn't imagine they would happen
70 years ago, but they're happening now, as a result of the
breaking of Israel's monopoly. what Israel is concerned about is
not that you will prove that the IDF were involved in the
criminality or whatever happened on October 7, what Israel is
terrified of is that the world will now see the Palestinians as a
human, that the world will now see the Palestinians not as the
barbaric animals that they've been painting them as for the last 70
years, but they will see them as ordinary children, as mothers as
fathers as LD and the like. That's what Israel is terrified of. And
that's why the focus of any token, Palestine should be on the
humanity of the cause. And on the humanity of the Palestinians, that
these are not terrorists being killed. These are ordinary
civilians. And that's why I thought it very poignant that a
lot of the focus in recent days has been about the idea that when
everybody says, Will you condemn Hamas? People are saying, Okay,
fine, let's suppose I do. And let's suppose we go past this
point. Let's imagine Hamas is eradicated. Let's imagine you
remove them, then what do you do about the world? That is the West
Bank, for example? What do you do about the Palestinians who remain
there? Suddenly, you find that where they're trying to drag you
into a mud mudslinging bath, in terms of what happiness is and
what they do? You force them onto a terrain that is very much
realistic, where they have no answers. You mentioned earlier
about the West Bank. The reason the West Bank is such an
uncomfortable topic for the Israelis and Western media is
because there is no Hamas in the West Bank, you have a Palestinian
authority that has abided by all of the conditions that the
Americans have wanted. Since the Oslo Accords of 1993. You have a
Palestinian Authority that proactively restraints the
resistance of the Palestinians in order to uphold agreements with
the Israelis, you have a Palestinian Authority that
cooperates on security issues with the Israelis, on the basis that
the Israelis will leave them alone, what's the excuse for
Israel to keep bombing them. And that's why I think that when it
comes to social media, the reason they've been so effective is
because they haven't been bogged down on where the Israelis want to
talk about, which is criminality of actions or terrorism and the
like, but focusing on the humanity and humanity of the Palestinians.
And that's what's making the Israelis go ballistic, they cannot
fathom the idea that the ordinary American who shouts at the
scientists in the supermarket is telling them that I don't believe
that those civilians deserve to be bombed because of the actions of a
few. And that's why Israel's monopoly is being broken. Because
we're seeing a lot of non Muslims online who are saying that all my
life, I believe the Israeli narrative, but I can't think of
any scenario where it's justified to bomb a hospital and kill 500.
To leave babies under the rubble to see the pictures of a baby's
head being split into two wire the biller May Allah never show
anybody, anything like that, to see the video of the child who's
shaking with fear, and then burst into tears when he's hugged by
somebody, because he doesn't know where his parents are the light
that shakes the heart, because what you're speaking to here is
not just to the conscience of humanity, but to the flipper or
the fitter is screaming in every individual Muslim or non Muslim,
that there is something so horribly wrong here. And no matter
what Israel or Ben Shapiro, these other people are saying nothing
can justify what I'm seeing before my eyes. And that's why I know
sometimes some muscles want to get bogged down. And you mentioned in
between patients, conspiracy theories, but the reality is that
the victory is not being won in those battles. It's being won in
finally breaking Israel's stranglehold on the monopoly. And
for the first time, US breaking through the algorithm, and
actually telling people the story. And it's worth noting here, there
is a prominent political analyst in the US who helped to modernize
the political industry where I work. My job is to advise
corporate clients how to save money in in crises and disasters
by advising them what's going to happen next and scenario planning.
But Ian Bremmer, who we tend to follow for his analysis, he put a
tweet out where he said, I've never seen so much disinformation
on the issue of Palestine in Israel. What he meant was, is I've
never seen so much pro Palestinian content on my page. So you can
imagine how many people are now being exposed to that. So the
question and I'll reframe the question slightly, what should we
be showing the world we should be showing the world that the
Palestinians are human, that they are mothers and children and
fathers with aspiring dreams like everybody else, and that they're
being slaughtered simply because Israel believes it has a 1000 year
old claim on a piece of land? And I think that's what's breaking the
narrative and was seeing the global shift in public opinion.
And I have I have a burner account on Twitter, where that allows me
to look at these things without being able to reply right away.
But it's like you said, the average Joe, even in the United
States, and all these fake accounts and regular people there,
the longer this war goes on, the more educated, they're getting on
the issue. So in the beginning, you saw people posting stuff like,
Hey, what's going on over there? Oh, they're added again. Well, now
or two and three weeks in, the same people have bothered now to
look up history of Palestine look up origin of the Israeli state.
And they're actually this. In a sense, it's backfiring badly upon
Israel, the more people are getting educated, that Israel is
not a state, a country like Ecuador, Bolivia, like a regular
old country that has been around for hundreds of years, is a
country that, you know, came into being with controversy came came
into existence through a Nakba, or a desert, what was called the
great catastrophe came into being by British hands, right putting it
in and came into being through refugees, as we mentioned before
you came on, because, is, in fact, 70% refugees, the people of Gaza
all came out through from the Nakba, and moved in and on this
live stream itself. One of the things we're trying to do is the
ABCs. The 101 What is the history of Israel? What is the history of
Palestine? What is the Nakba, for example, what is the 1948?
Borders? How, who was
Theodor Herzl? What were the ideas going on in the 1900s that led to
the existence of this state. So the people on the ground, on one
hand, they're catching up to history, and a lot of these guys,
especially a lot of the right wingers, this is their first rodeo
and Palestine in Gaza. The people who got activated politically
through Trump, these guys who are very outspoken online, and are
very much America first. This is their first time actually truly
getting exposed to this type of thing. True. So if the narrative
is being changed across the board, even really in the United States,
although the establishment is not budging on it,