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20 Pro-Palestine Protestors vs Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Sun, 08 Jun
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Ahmed Alkhatib steps into the circle, challenging 20 Pro-Palestine protestors with four divisive claims: October 7th was a disaster that opened the worst chapter in Palestinian history, armed resistance will get Palestinians nowhere, angry protests in the West are not helpful, and being pro-Palestine necessitates accepting a free Palestine side by side next to Israel. Will his arguments hold, or will the group shut him down? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What claims does Ahmed Alkhatib present?
what happened with the attack that Hamas launched as a terrorist organization, you have taken an entirely different approach to thinking about October 7th. You have eaten up the Hamas propaganda that says October 7th happened because of Zionism.
And you're eating up the Zionist propaganda, right? Because I don't ever hear you bringing up, and I've seen many of your interviews, I don't see you ever bringing up the IOF, if you want to call them the IDF, the Hazinga, where they came from. They started as a terrorist militia. Did they not? Were they not killed in British soldiers? How is that irrelevant?
That's where they came from, and they continue to impose that upon the Palestinian population. I ask you, why is it that in the West Bank, there's nobody stopping all the colonization? Are you Palestinian? I'm Mexican. Have you lived in the Gaza Strip?
No, when you were run out, when you aligned yourself with, what was that organization you were involved with? Because I know you work for the Atlantic Council right now, right? Do you know anything about my history?
Chapter 2: How do the protestors respond to Alkhatib's claims?
Chapter 3: What is the significance of October 7th in the Palestinian context?
what happened with the attack that Hamas launched as a terrorist organization, you have taken an entirely different approach to thinking about October 7th. You have eaten up the Hamas propaganda that says October 7th happened because of Zionism.
And you're eating up the Zionist propaganda, right? Because I don't ever hear you bringing up, and I've seen many of your interviews, I don't see you ever bringing up the IOF, if you want to call them the IDF, the Hazinga, where they came from. They started as a terrorist militia. Did they not? Were they not killed in British soldiers? How is that irrelevant?
That's where they came from, and they continue to impose that upon the Palestinian population. I ask you, why is it that in the West Bank, there's nobody stopping all the colonization? Are you Palestinian? I'm Mexican. Have you lived in the Gaza Strip?
No, when you were run out, when you aligned yourself with, what was that organization you were involved with? Because I know you work for the Atlantic Council right now, right? Do you know anything about my history? Yes, I do. So tell me, what is my history? Your parents were forced into Gaza, were they not?
They grew up in a refugee camp, were they not? Do you know anything about Hamas and how it treats Palestinians in the Gaza Strip? Not worse than Israelis and Zionists treat them. Do you know that in the past two days, Hamas executed... dozens of Palestinians who were hungry, who were desperate, as Hamas was looting.
Dozens of Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Zionist entity exterminated 33 of your family members? Pause. You've been voted out by the majority. Please return to your seat.
So I want to shift the conversation a little bit. Please. You said that October 7th was one of the most detrimental things to Palestinians, correct? I would beg to differ because I think the fact that, oh, also let's not pretend like October 7th was an isolated incident. It didn't come out of nowhere. It came after years and years and years of occupation, oppression, and siege.
Okay, so on October 7th, when the resistance took place, because it was an isolated incident, it also happened to take place during a time where social media was rampant. So for the first time in a really long time, Palestine was in every conversation. Most everybody that you know could talk about Palestine in one way or another. They knew about what was going on.
And for the first time, we are hearing people recognize how detrimental the IDF has been and the occupation has been in history. And I think that the fact that it took place during a time where social media was... at its height. We're seeing people on the ground. We're seeing people take videos of the rubble of their homes.
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