Ahmed Alkhatib | Breaking the Cycle of Dehumanization
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is a Palestinian-American peace advocate who grew up in Gaza City, which he left in 2005 as a teenage exchange student. He writes extensively on Gaza’s political and humanitarian affairs. He is an outspoken critic of Hamas and Israel’s war on Gaza and promotes coexistence and peace between Palestinians and Israelis. His writing has been published in American and Israeli outlets, and his opinions and comments have been featured in the international press.
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A brave man in a dark time. We need more of him in this world. Gaza can be transformed if we get rid of blidn Islamism forever. We also need a regime change in Israel.
Thank you, Ahmed, for your work and advocacy for peace. Yours is a valuable and unique perspective. I wish all the world leaders would learn listen to you and learn from your courage and humility.🙏☮
Ahmed Alkhatib is a ray of light in the darkness.
Ahmed, you are so admirable, courageous and compassionate. We commend your determination to find lasting peace. We feel so lucky to have met you as a teenager when you first came to the U.S. from Gaza. What a journey you've experienced! May your efforts bear fruit for the benefit of all!
Mr. Alkhatib, thank you for your advocacy for *all* people, in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. People desperately need to hear you + other men and women like you.
You are a beacon of light in a sea of darkness. Please keep speaking!!
Ahmed Alkhatib is a good man.
Wish he will witness that peace in his lifetime
He has so much patience and strength. I hope his voice continues to reach more so that a peace process can be within sight. Thank you Ahmed for putting yourself out there despite the vitriol that gets sent your way from all directions, your work is not for nothing 🫶🏽
First time since all this began that I have heard someone speak any sense ♥️
Well said
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8:11 Not a word about Hamas rocket fire, admittedly at low burn, through this entire period.
9:14 "nefarious and increasingly authoritarian" Netanyahu, whose coalitions have never won more than 65% of the popular vote, ad who proposed a Palestinian state in 2009.
Why don't you see this as Netanyahu and Gazans against the evil Hamas?
10:02 All paid for by UNRWA and the international community, because Hamas couldn't be bothered to create a functioning government economy or infrastructure.
10:11 "Students excelled in their studies" learning how to end Israeli soldiers in math class, or how the evil Zionists came from Europe and bamboozled the Europeans into spreading Jewish artifacts everywhere so they could steal from Palestinians.
10:44 Hamas didn't care because for them Jews aren't human.
11:10 Thank the UNRWA education which used PA propaganda to raise a Hamas generation or more.
11:51 Because for the Palestinian collective, Jews aren't human. Period.
12:20 Hamas did Oct. 7th because KSA signing normalization agreements with Israel would have completely sidelined the Palestinians, forcing the Palestinian collective to accept Israel's existence. The Iranian regime was actually annoyed at Hamas.
12:27 How do you know they were Israeli airstrikes? Some 20% of missiles fired at Israel landed in Gaza.
14:36 The UN has confirmed the actual number of civilian causalties is less than 10K, not "tens of thousands".
15:36 Common ground will be easy to find once the Palestinian collective can recognize Jews as human, and credibly guarantee Jewish civil rights from sea to river.
15:52 Yet you cannot bring yourself to recognize that the Jewish people might collectively have a claim. That's the only thing that will break the cycle.
17:23 There are no narratives here. Jews lived here and collectively hoped to return to their ancestral homeland. Arabs came in the 7th century, conquered the land and held it under a succession of foreign empires. When the Ottoman Empire fell, the British decided the long-suffering Jews deserved a chance to have a go at recreating their country; the local Arabs, viewing the Jews as subhuman and unworthy, rejected anything other than Arab sovereignty and Jewish enslavement, as had been the case in all Arab lands. Egyptian/Jordanian occupation was perfectly acceptable, as long as it wasn't the Jews.
This attitude is the primary driver of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, up to and including Oct. 7th. Until Palestinians change, the Palestinian collective will have less and less to work with.
19:20 Pointless until Hamas is gone and Palestinian attitudes change.
19:38 How is this different from what was before Oct. 7th? The Israeli left has been shrilly screeching about peace for 30 years now; they've all but given up in the face of Palestinian attitudes.
19:52 "On what remains of their land" Before 1994, there was no Palestinian political entity.
21:24 You keep blaming Netanyahu. Stop listening to Israeli left-wing media. Any successor of Netanyahu is going to make Netanyahu look far-left; think Smotrich and Ben Gvir on steroids. The right wingers represent some 80-90% of the electorate even before Oct. 7th.
Don’t use the only brain cell you’ve got to come up with lies and BS on the internet.
Voters aren’t 80% right wing
you obviously don’t know Ahmed and the job he does. he had limited time i suggest you listen to his interview with Yasmine Mohammed.