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What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion

Big picture of this deal between the U.S. and the regime in Iran

I'm a middle eastern historian. My own family were made refugees. And this is my honest view of the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the displacement of around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs during the 1947–49 war surrounding the creation of Israel. A thread. 🧵

Mfer you just lost your supreme leader in the first second of a war. Your airspace is a highway for Israeli jets. Your list of dead commanders wouldn’t fit on an A4, and you’re still eating horse shit and talking about war strategies. Are you suffering from retardation or what?

For two years, Hamas pushed false claims about Israel—and the media ran them nonstop. Now, literal video shows hundreds of civilians murdered by the regime in Iran—and the media is nowhere to be found. It’s utterly disgraceful.

The Assyrians are one of the oldest continuous peoples of the Middle East. They are an indigenous Mesopotamian nation, speaking modern forms of Aramaic, the region’s ancient lingua franca. Their civilization reached its height in the Neo-Assyrian Empire between roughly 900–600 BCE, one of history’s first true superpowers, ruling territory from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean with capitals such as Nineveh and Ashur. At its peak, the Assyrian Empire controlled or directly ruled large parts of today’s Israel and the West Bank, including Samaria, and exercised authority over the coastal Levant, with Gaza functioning within the Assyrian imperial system. This is not symbolism. It is documented imperial rule. What followed was not peaceful decline. It was systematic destruction. During World War I, Assyrians were targeted in the Assyrian Genocide. An estimated 250,000–300,000 Assyrians were murdered by forces of the Ottoman Empire, often carried out by Ottoman units and allied Kurdish militias. Entire Christian villages across southeastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia were erased. In 1933, the state of Iraq carried out the Simele massacre. Iraqi army units slaughtered thousands of Assyrian civilians, destroyed villages, and sent a clear message that Assyrians had no future in the new Arab nationalist order. Throughout the 20th century, Arabization policies in Iraq and Syria confiscated Assyrian land, suppressed their language, and reshaped demographics in historically Assyrian regions. In 2014, ISIS completed the pattern. Assyrian towns like Qaraqosh and villages along the Khabur River were emptied. Churches were destroyed. Civilians were given four options: convert, pay tribute, flee, or die. Today, only around 3–5 million Assyrians remain worldwide, most living in diaspora after repeated waves of massacre and ethnic cleansing. They have no state, no protected autonomy, and no enforced right of return, despite an unbroken historical, cultural, and archaeological link to the land. Why are you not fighting for the Assyrians’ right of return? Why do you not speak about their occupation, their dispossession, and their erased homeland?

"Freedom Fighters"

For almost two years, the world has seen Gaza only through the news. But very few have actually gone inside. I chose to go — to see it with my own eyes and to meet the people living there. What I witnessed is not the story being told on your screens. The suffering is real, but Hamas is the one responsible. They hold their own people hostage, steal the aid meant for them, use families as shields, and spread lies to the world. I met women who were brave enough to tell the TRUTH and children who are deserving of a different future. We cannot forget the remaining 48 hostages still held captive. And lastly, we cannot forget that Hamas has the power to end this all right now.

The same people who said killing Soleimani would trigger a major war are saying the same thing now. This messaging has always been an op. It wasn't true five years ago and it is vastly less true today, when Iran's only real source of military power -- terrorist groups and ballistic missiles -- have been mostly wiped out. It's pretty simple: to fight a war, you need military power, and Iran now has very little. And of course the reason why nobody who made irresponsible predictions in 2020 repented or addressed why they were wrong is because it was never real analysis. It was one component of a larger, 20+ year information operation whose goal was to intimidate the United States into letting Iran go nuclear. Thank God it failed. Keep an eye on the World War Three predictors in the coming days. Check and see if any of them deal seriously with their failed predictions. Not one of them will.

"When 6 B-2s fly westward, look for 9 more flying eastward." Ancient proverb

As an Iranian, I wish nothing more than for the self righteous westerners who say “Iran has the right to defend itself,” to live under the regime and find out exactly what it means to be “defended.”

ای پیرمرد، در این ۸۶ سالی که زندگی کرده‌ای، جز شر و ستم چیزی به جا نگذاشته‌ای. فقط رنج و درد برای میلیون‌ها نفر، چه در کشورت و چه در سایر کشورها، به بار آورده‌ای. در این روزهای پایانی عمرت، دست‌کم یک بار وجدان داشته باش: برای مردم خود، تسلیم شو.

Israel is collapsing! The global terror network, Al Jazeera Arabic, is showing videos of damage in Tel Aviv due to Iranian missiles and using all kinds of big words, rhetoric, and imagery to make it seem like Israel is about to collapse and be wiped off the map. This is the same Al Jazeera that is the official media arm of Hamas in Gaza and made the Islamist terror group seem like it’s defeating all of Israel’s invading tanks and armored vehicles, once claiming that Hamas damaged, destroyed, or disabled almost 1,000 military vehicles. This type of fake anti-Israel propaganda is used as an opium for the politically and spiritually defeated Arab spirits that still believe in the illusion of armed resistance and the possibility of Israel being destroyed and annihilated. Al Jazeera is not too dissimilar from Egyptian propaganda during the 1967 “Naksa” or 6-day war during which Gamal Abdel Nasser’s “media” was claiming that Egypt’s air force was over Tel Aviv and destroying Israel’s planes and army, when the entirety of the Egyptian armed forces had been fully and decisively destroyed, defeated, and erased from existence by Israel. Thankfully, many in the Arab world have and are gradually awakening to the lies, deceit, and manipulation that Islamist, pan-Arabist, and Arab leftist propagandists have been spewing. Unfortunately, though, many are still being poisoned and brainwashed into a bizarre state of hypnosis. Let there be no doubt: al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and any anti-Western, anti-civilizational dark force that exists in the Middle East would not be what or where it is (or was) without Al Jazeera and Qatari-sponsored propaganda, which is ironically located very close to the Al Udeid Air Base, the headquarters of the U.S. military’s Central Command and the site of the largest air force base in the Middle East, not to mention the location from which intelligence gathering operations take place.

I’ve been communicating with some of the organizers of the anti-Hamas protests in the Gaza Strip and just got off the phone with one of them. They’ve been relaying a sense of utter betrayal by the international human rights community, “pro-Palestine” activists, international and Arab journalists, Western analysts, and all who spent a year and a half screaming as if they really care about Gazans. But they’re undeterred; in fact, they’re relying on each other and other Gazans who made it out to safety to promote their actions and get their message to the outside world. I’m calling on all of my followers: prepare to amplify anti-Hamas, pro-peace Palestinian voices in Gaza, who are not beneficiaries of the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex that only cares about dead Gazans or strictly anti-Israel narratives. Let there be no mistake: Hamas is severely weakened and cannot entirely suppress a massive awakening of all Gazans rising up against its rule; anti-Hamas protests can and WILL become a regular occurrence; the “pro-Palestine” narrative must accommodate Gazans who are done being ruled by fascist terrorists who are a miniaturized version of ISIS and should consider updating their talking points to distance the just and urgent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and dignity away from Hamas’s terror, violence, antisemitism, and hate. Despite the immense challenges ahead, Gaza’s future belongs to a rejuvenated and revitalized population that focuses on nation-building and coexistence, not radicalism and “resistance.”

While in the Middle East, I've been meeting with Palestinians from Gaza who got out during the war or have family there now. They're almost universally disgusted with Hamas, its Arab supporters, Qatari propaganda, & "pro-Palestine" demonstrations & activism that, in their own words, "run cover/interference for Hamas's terrorism." As many of my friends and allies said repeatedly, the further away you are from Gaza, the easier it is to champion Hamas and its terrorism that many falsely and fraudulently label "resistance." Worse, the stories of threats, torture, intimidation, and violence experienced by Gazans protesting against Hamas and calling for the end of the war are jaw-dropping, casting doubt on anyone still simping for the terror group while proclaiming to be "pro-Palestine." Shame on all who have failed the people of Gaza and ignored their suffering when it doesn't fit the established or desired narratives.

Some Palestinians now believe Hamas was left around just as an excuse for Israel and the US to attack Iran in a few months, and that after this - Hamas will be completely uprooted.

Great new article in the Washington Post from Palestinian pro-peace leader @MoumALnatour