Mohammed El-Kurd
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up its military capabilities and yet it pretends constantly that it's on the brink of extension they they raise their students to believe that every they say we live in a bad neighborhood israelis have either really public or really secret
peace agreements with almost all of the arab neighbors and yet they say we live in a bad neighborhood right they have gas agreements with jordan they have disagreements with egypt they have a peace agreement with the uae and whatever and yet they tell everybody we live in a bad neighborhood and everybody wants to kill us at any time so you're living you have the nukes and you have the military uh support and you have the diplomatic and economic cover from the us and you have all of these capabilities and yet you're constantly living in this like
siege mentality where you believe you're on the brink of extension and so that harbors a certain mentality a certain like victim mentality that's like in my opinion akin to psychosis it's like the biggest question i ask myself all the time is that can people's minds be changed people who have been so indoctrinated because they see the evidence but they reject it they reject what they hear they reject what they see and so it's it's hard to tell
But your analysis is material.
What you just touched on is that you're looking at the world through a material and you're looking at facts and what's actually happening materially.
But what happens in this country specifically and in the West largely is that we focus so much on words and language.
And oh, is from the river to the sea, is from the river to the sea anti-Semitic or does Israel have a right to exist?
And we're not talking about real things like you said.
Black people in the South have no representation.
Palestinians are being killed.
But it's really a masterful trap they have set up for us where we're constantly drug into speaking about rhetorical shit and semantics and blah, blah, blah.
Instead of talking about systemic procedural policy-driven violence,
Are you that triggered by that?
Iran and America are enemies.
Does he expect Iran to chant, I love America?
Like what?
I think the most revealing thing, first of all, as you said, the rape of Palestinian prisoners, and honestly, the most horrific accounts that you read, we've been reading them for a year and a half, if not two years.
They've been reported on by Mondawais, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, many, many, many, and they've largely been ignored.
by the likes of the New York Times, while the likes of the New York Times have published the widely discredited, widely debunked, screams without words article.
But the most revealing thing about the article is that it was relegated to the opinion section, right?