Ahmed Fouad Al-Hatib
speaker
43 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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Well, I grew up in the Gaza Strip around my parents and grandparents, and particularly grandparents who experienced the 1948 displacement during what Israel calls the War of Independence, what Palestinians often call the Nakba, which is the loss of their ancestral homeland during the formation of the state of Israel.
And what we...
grew up with was that Zionism is a modern political movement with a religious slant, if you will, that believed in establishing a Jewish homeland at the expense of the Palestinian people who were there.
Once I left the Gaza Strip, once I began doing more investigation, I started understanding that the picture is a lot more complex.
The picture is a lot more nuanced.
and that there were different types of Zionism and flavors and orientations, if you will, and that to many early Zionists, the original intent was not inherently meant to just be based upon the displacement of Palestinians, but as events unfolded, as more militant forms of Zionism have emerged,
And as the violence between the Arab inhabitants of mandatory Palestine and the rising number of Jewish immigrants increased, that violence led to confrontations that resulted in the displacement.
I mean, in the same way that I don't believe Muslim people worldwide should be held accountable for the actions of Saudi Arabia or for the actions of Pakistan or for the actions of Hamas or ISIS or other different groups, whether it be non-state actors or state actors, I do believe that the same standard should be applied.
I can already hear the counter argument from others, which is that, well, Israel supposedly speaks on behalf of all Jews.
Israel represents all Jews.
Israel and the Jewish people have an inseparable connection.
The Jewish people worldwide
have an inseparable connection to the land as is represented by the modern state of Israel.
But while that may be true in a variety of ways, it is inaccurate to say that that connection to Israel is synonymous with wholehearted support and endorsement of every single Israeli action.
to look at seven or eight million Israelis and to say that they are all synonymous with the Netanyahu government or with the actions of Israeli settlers or with the actions of rogue Israeli officers or soldiers.
It's fundamentally at odds with how we think about
everything else in the world, how we think about the behavior of many other nation states and groups and religious entities.
I want to emphasize, I am speaking about this not as someone who's pro-Israel.
I am deeply pro-Palestine.
I care about my people.
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