Shadee Elmasry – What Should We Focus On in Palestine Sami Hamdi NBF 268

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,