gamal | MondoweissMondoweiss

born part Arab part Scots/Irish, worked in training ulema for the european environment/ journalist broadcaster for many years working mainly for bbc. From a faction of euro-islam much favored by the establishment, writer etc nothing really of interest may as well move along.

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" i think he’s a “good tribalist”. " Yeah but if only that were a positive thing, it all depends what you mean by tribalism, take me I am not actually a member of the tribe of which my family were a central part from before my birth, it is my Grandmothers' tribe, we were subsumed within them (her children and issue) out of need, from poverty and rejection and then we and they became one and now can protect each other from the powerful and the corrupt, we probably are a little too clannish for an overall score of civilized, but we are not stupid and guys like brent give tribalism a bad name, we do too, but we have panache and elan and ride white horses in sharkia and are neither perturbed nor lachrymose tough as life is..we not worried.

On PLO Mission shuts down DC office, hours later Pompeo cuts $165 million to Palestinian government

" met many people who dedicated their lives to IP peace. Al Lilienthal, Elmer Berger come to mind. Its possible you and I will suffer the same lack of success. How to make lemonade is our challenge, not only for Israelis and Palestinians but all humankind" Yes there are no Palestinians in the Palestinian struggle, "Savvy and sophistication do not equate to kowtowing or surrender to a master" "Savvy and sophistication"...prideful ok for some then? you really think you can mask your malice with claims of savoir faire and sophistication, "They entail, especially with a worldwide audience" The world has for a longtime supported Palestine, have you not noticed in your yankee fishbowl? "being calculating, not being belligerent or blinded by anger…. trying to occupy the high ground and exposing the flaws for all to see." The insults just flow freely now, because of your suffering? "Yes, Kim has nuclear weapons but he’s brought Trump to the point of saying, “We fell in love”. That’s savvy, regardless of how matters play out. An example of the art of diplomacy" He has an independent nuclear armed state allied with China "An example of the art of diplomacy" go back to "He" "Your take on Trump seems set. I’m not so sure" You are not sure about what? " When it comes to his ego, everyone can get sacrificed. Having Netanyahu in a position he can’t say no has advantages" "can't say no"? but Palestinians are blinded by anger? "Instead, I see things have not gone well for them for a very long time and that is the heart of my concern. Not only for them but the region and the world. We see the dominant narrative, “Israel has the right to defend itself”, has undermined Palestinian fortunes, undermined the safe political ground we would like our politicians to move to. I believe a nsuccessful narrative could be the original PLO position, one Abbas has also mentioned, a secular democratic state with equality for all. This entails angling toward positive neighborly relations while knowing that is a great threat and will be attacked" its like your just happy to write nonsense about what you believe? "not gone well for them" ? you are a complete fraud and no friend of the victims of your vile sadistic and larcenous empire and its murderous local allies and your deranged oligarchs..waging war everywhere..on everyone..even the savvy and chic We are not blinded by anything that happens to us, weird premise, it's like you're prejudiced or something.

On PLO Mission shuts down DC office, hours later Pompeo cuts $165 million to Palestinian government

"Religion is like that".....ouch, it is though isn't it, imagine a religion that had no pay off when Umar asked Muhammad what would be best use of his property Muhammad said "habis al asl wa sabil al thamara" ...."sequester the substance and donate the usufruct" Palestine had the most Awqaf of any Muslim land, no one can dissolve a waqf at the point of a gun, Religion is like that too.

On Lara Alqasem’s lawyer: her detention is part of a larger, more worrying trend

"I can’t quite understand why someone not boycotting " and was it not a whig who during the debate of the Penal Code in Ireland said "I take it from this legislation that there is no such person as an Irish Catholic", plenty of Protestant landowners around me, but they don't insult the Irish Catholic or steal their lands and lives anymore, you can understand if you try, the Protestants became Irish, to everyones' great benefit, and now Ireland owns all the land (it's about land) http://www.irishidentity.com/stories/penal.htm

On Lara Alqasem’s case highlights the need for the academic boycott of Israel

"and to have access to West Jerusalem?" sometimes brent things are too perfect to be messed with, let me tell you we are going to haunt your dreams, never listening to your weak nonsense, "If they can’t get to independence via two states, they will do well to get advice on how to turn toward one" who really knows how to be Palestinian? is there an institute in Texas do you think? honestly brent you are really, really disgusting.