“A Racist, Colonial Zionist”

Yesterday, I had a day-long debate with an Egyptian Arab about the conflict.

As soon as I asked him to explain why is his government destroying Hamas’ tunnels on the Sinai Peninsula side, why Al-Sisi does not want “Palestinians” in Egypt (maybe because of the Black September lesson in Jordanian, the Lebanese Civil War caused by the “Palestinians” and the Palestinian betrayal to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in favor of Sadam Hussein?), and if he could condemn the dictatorship that exists in his country, he tried to change the conversation.

However, I kept insisting and made him aware that his answers might be watched by his government. Suddenly, he panicked, insulted me, and blocked me from LinkedIn after making clear that he was “done with a racist, colonial Zionist” like me.

Sadly, this is the problem in the Middle East. The Arab and Muslim countries are afraid of truths. They just attack us because they know we believe in freedom of speech and democracy and they feel free to yell and insult us, and even explain why they hate us so much.

But why? Because they know we will always give them a safe space to talk; or are the Joint List/Hadash’s members being limited or censored for supporting Hamas in the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament)?

Nevertheless, they will never be able to speak up freely in their countries -as they do in the West or even in Israel- because they know what will await them: jail or death.

Same thing with history: if you tell the Arabs that the Jewish Agency and other entities bought around 60% of the Land of Israel before the 1948 Israel’s Independence Declaration, they will just suddenly get mad and respond to you with a hoax aspiring to be better than "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

Please, study, learn, and argue with some knowledge in your head before debating and start looking at the problems at home also.

The Arab and Muslim worlds are predominantly very poor, insecure, and unstable places. Not because of Israel (which has the second biggest and strongest economy in the region, has the most sophisticated army in the region, and even provides and commercializes water and natural gas with Egypt and Jordan), but because of the metastatic carcinogenic cocktail they have: hate, radicalism, and martyrdom.