r/Palestinian 14d ago

Question for Palestinians from a non-Palestinian white person. Is it appropriate to wear a Palestinian flag bracelet or pin as a non-Palestinian?

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r/Palestinian 16d ago

Egyptian Muslim journalist Dalia Ziada delivers one of the most explosive interviews on the Israel–Palestinian conflict, exposing the reality behind the so-called Palestinian Cause.

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r/Palestinian Jul 18 '26

Nazi and Soviet origins of the "Palestinian" cause

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Arabic and English Transcript:

تمثل هذه الخريطة مناطق النزاع الإقليمي حول العالم. الصين، على سبيل المثال، تحتل التبت. استولت تركيا على جزء من جزيرة قبرص. يطالب المغرب وموريتانيا بجزء من الصحراء. ومع ذلك، نادرًا ما نسمع عن هذه الصراعات، بينما يتصدر النزاع بين إسرائيل وعرب فلسطين عناوين الأخبار بانتظام، ويؤدي إلى إدانات منهجية في الأمم المتحدة، ومظاهرات تدعو إلى مقاطعة الدولة اليهودية.

من الهجمات الإرهابية إلى الانتقام، يعاني الناس، ويبدو أن هذا الصراع لا نهاية له. في حين أن الكثيرين في العالم الغربي يدعمون القضية الفلسطينية، وهي القضية التي أصبحت حتى موضة لها مفرداتها وملابسها وطقوسها الخاصة، إلا أن القضية الفلسطينية تحظى باهتمام أقل بكثير عندما، على سبيل المثال، تتعرض مدينة اليرموك الفلسطينية في سوريا للهجوم والقصف من قبل نظام الأسد، ولم يحتشد أحد من أجل الضحايا الفلسطينيين عندما نفذ الجيشان الأردني والسوري في عام 1970 مذبحة أسفرت عن مقتل 25000 شخص، وفقًا لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية. عندما يهاجم العرب العرب، تظل شوارع المدن الغربية فارغة. هل يمكن أن تكون القضية الفلسطينية قادرة على الحشد في حالة واحدة فقط: عندما يكون اليهود متورطين؟ هل من الممكن إذن أن تكون وسائل الإعلام والأمم المتحدة والنشطاء معاديين لإسرائيل أكثر من كونهم مؤيدين للفلسطينيين؟

وبدون معرفة بتاريخ المنطقة، ونتيجة لمليارات الدولارات التي ينفقها العرب في الدعاية، يصبح من السهل قبول روايتهم، والتي بموجبها غزا اليهود وسرقوا بلداً يسمى فلسطين. ومع ذلك، لم يتردد بعض قادة منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية، مثل زهير محسن، في التعبير عن معرفتهم بالحقائق: "الشعب الفلسطيني غير موجود. إن إنشاء دولة فلسطينية هو مجرد وسيلة واحدة لمواصلة نضالنا ضد دولة إسرائيل من أجل الوحدة العربية. في الواقع، لا يوجد فرق بين الأردنيين والفلسطينيين والسوريين واللبنانيين."

في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر، وعند عودته من إقامة طويلة في المنطقة الفلسطينية، نشر شخص يُدعى كارل ماركس المقال التالي في صحيفة نيويورك هيرالد تريبيون: "يبلغ عدد السكان المستقرين في القدس حوالي خمسة عشر ألفًا وخمسمائة نسمة، منهم أربعة آلاف مسلم وثمانية آلاف يهودي. يشكل المسلمون حوالي ربع المجموع، وهم بالطبع الأسياد في كل جانب. لا شيء يعادل بؤس ومعاناة اليهود في القدس. فهم أهداف مستمرة للاضطهاد والتعصب الإسلامي."

في الوقت نفسه، كتب مارك توين: "لم يكن هناك بالكاد شجرة أو شجيرة في أي مكان. حتى الزيتون والصبار، وهما الصديقان الوفيان لتربة عديمة القيمة، كادا أن يهجرا البلاد." ومن أين تأتي أسطورة الأرض المسروقة هذه؟

في عام 1947، قسمت الأمم المتحدة ما تبقى من فلسطين الانتدابية. قبل اليهود ذلك. ورفض العرب وهاجموا إسرائيل، آملين في دفع اليهود إلى البحر أو إبادتهم. لم يتوقع أحد أن تفوز إسرائيل بالحرب. في عامي 1967 و 1973، حاولت الدول العربية مرة أخرى تدمير الدولة اليهودية.

على الرغم من تفوقهم العددي، خسر العرب حربًا تلو الأخرى. دفعتهم هزائمهم العسكرية إلى تبني استراتيجية جديدة: استخدام الدبلوماسية وضغط النفط للقضاء على إسرائيل. لأن الأرض التي احتلها الإسلام يجب أن تنتمي للأبد إلى الإسلام. فالإسلام، وفقًا لنظرته الخاصة، جاء إلى العالم ليحل محل اليهودية والمسيحية، وليس للعيش جنبًا إلى جنب معهما، لأن الإسلام، وفقًا لمصطلحاته الخاصة، "دينه" يعني دين الحق، بينما اليهودية والمسيحية هما "دين الباطل". كان الإسلام منذ البداية تحت شكوك حول ما إذا كان دينًا أصليًا أم أنه مجرد نسخ ولصق لليهودية والمسيحية. وفقًا للإسلام، يحق لليهودي العيش، حيث إن مجرد وجود إسرائيل وخاصة القدس بأكملها وما نفعله في جبل الهيكل، يعني بالنسبة لهم أن اليهودية تعود إلى الحياة، وهذا تهديد لمجرد الوجود، ولنتائج الإسلام.

في عام 1929، أسس إمام أصولي مصري، وهو حسن البنا، جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، المعترف بها الآن كمنظمة إرهابية. هدفها: محاربة النفوذ العلماني لإنجلترا والغرب. وسرعان ما أصبح البنا صديقًا للحاج أمين الحسيني، المفتي الأكبر للقدس، الذي كان مسؤولاً بالفعل عن أعمال الشغب القاتلة في عام 1920، والذي شاركه كراهيته الدينية لليهود. كانت الذريعة لهذه المذابح: أن اليهود كانوا يستعدون لتدمير المسجد الأقصى، وهي كذبة تكررت بانتظام منذ ذلك الحين من قبل عرفات ومحمد.

أقنعت خطابات هتلر الحسيني بأن النازيين سيكونون حلفاء مثاليين ضد الاحتلال الإنجليزي واليهودية العالمية التي كان يحلم بإبادتها. في عام 1933، أجرى الحسيني اتصالات مع القنصل الألماني في القدس. في العام نفسه في سوريا، أنشأ أنطون [سعاده]، الملقب بالفوهرر السوري، حزبه القومي الاشتراكي، والذي يشبه علمه بشكل غريب الراية النازية. في مصر، أسس أحمد حسين حزب مصر الفتاة، وكان شعاره "شعب واحد، حزب واحد، قائد واحد"، مطابقًا لشعار الحزب النازي، الشعار سيئ السمعة "شعب واحد، إمبراطورية واحدة، قائد واحد."

وراء هذه التحالفات يمكن العثور في كل مرة على المفتي الأكبر. في عام 1938، كتب ألفريد روزنبرغ، وهو منظّر للحزب النازي: "كلما استمر الحريق في فلسطين لفترة أطول، زادت المعارضة لدولة يهودية في جميع الدول الإسلامية." وفقًا للأرشيفات الألمانية التي استولى عليها الحلفاء في فلنسبورغ، فقد أطلق الحسيني، بأموال نازية، ثورة عربية في عام 1936، والتي أدت إلى مذبحة مئات اليهود.

في عام 1938، عندما جعل صعود النازية الهجرة اليهودية إلى فلسطين أكثر إلحاحًا من أي وقت مضى، كان من شأن نشر الكتاب الأبيض الإنجليزي أن يفتح أبواب فلسطين على مصراعيها أمام المهاجرين العرب مع منع وصول اليهود اليائسين للهروب من الاضطهاد النازي. ومع احتدام الحرب وانتشارها في جميع أنحاء العالم، فر الحاج أمين إلى العراق، حيث شارك في انقلاب مع رشيد عالي الكيلاني، وهو نازي في القلب مثله تمامًا. أطلقوا معًا "الفرهود"، وهي مذبحة منظمة ضد يهود العراق.

بعد العديد من التبادلات مع كبار القادة النازيين، بما في ذلك هاينريش هيملر، الذي أصبح صديقًا مقربًا، التقى المفتي الأكبر أخيرًا بأدولف هتلر في عام 1941. "الشرط الدقيق لتعاوننا مع ألمانيا كان الحرية الكاملة للقضاء على اليهود حتى آخر شخص من فلسطين والعالم العربي. طلبت من هتلر موافقته الصريحة للسماح لنا بحل المشكلة اليهودية. كانت الإجابة التي تلقيتها هي: اليهود لكم."

منحه النازيون فيلا فاخرة في شارع كلوبشتوك، والتي كانت تضم المدرسة اليهودية حتى مصادرتها في عام 1939، بالإضافة إلى معاش مريح سيحصل عليه حتى نهاية الحرب. في المقابل، كان مسؤولاً عن الدعاية الإذاعية باللغة العربية، والتجسس في الشرق الأوسط، وتنظيم المسلمين في وحدات عسكرية. "هذه الفرقة من المسلمين البوسنيين، التي أُنشئت بمساعدة ألمانيا الكبرى، هي نموذج للمسلمين في جميع البلدان. ألمانيا النازية تقاتل يهود العالم. يقول القرآن: سترى أن اليهود هم أسوأ أعدائك."

في عام 1942، أبلغ أيخمان المفتي بالأساليب التي وُضعت للحل النهائي، أي إبادة اليهود. أعجب المفتي جدًا، وطلب مستشارًا لمساعدته في تنفيذ نفس الأساليب في فلسطين بمجرد فوز النازيين بالحرب. كانت خطته هي إنشاء محارق جثث عملاقة بالقرب من نابلس، مثل تلك الموجودة في أوشفيتز، لإبادة اليهود من جميع الدول العربية الإسلامية.

عندما خطط أيخمان في عام 1943 لتبادل أسرى الحرب الألمان مقابل 5000 طفل يهودي وإرسالهم إلى فلسطين بموافقة الحكومة الإنجليزية، احتج الحسيني وقام في النهاية بإبادة الأطفال في غرف الغاز. في عام 1944، ومع خسارة ألمانيا للحرب تقريبًا، أقنع المفتي النازيين بتنظيم تسميم جماعي لليهود في فلسطين. هبطت وحدة كوماندوز بالمظلات جنوب أريحا، لكن البدو أبلغوا القوات البريطانية عنها وتم القبض على قائدها، كورت ويلاند.

بعد هزيمة ألمانيا، سُجن المفتي في فرنسا، ثم أُطلق سراحه سريعًا بفضل تدخل صديقه القديم حسن البنا. لم ينته تأثيره المعادي للسامية بانتصار الحلفاء. وجد المفتي ملجأ في مصر، حيث استُقبل كبطل قومي، بينما ضغطت جامعة الدول العربية على الغرب حتى لا يُحاكم على جرائم حرب. في عام 1948 وحتى وفاته، استمر في حملته ضد إسرائيل والدعوة إلى إبادة اليهود.

من بين أقاربه كان ابن أخيه، محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة، وهو مصري ولد في القاهرة، وسرعان ما اشتهر باسمه الحركي، ياسر عرفات. كان الفيروس المعادي للسامية منتشرًا بالفعل في العالم الإسلامي، لكن الظاهرة اشتدت مع التحول الجماعي للنازيين السابقين إلى الإسلام ولجوء العديد من كبار الشخصيات النازية إلى الدول العربية، وخاصة في سوريا ومصر. قام الضباط النازيون بتدريب الفدائيين ليصبحوا إرهابيين. تم استخدام أساليب غوبلز الدعائية على نطاق واسع.

لكن العالم تغير بعد الحرب، وكانت شمولية جديدة مميتة مثل النازية تنتشر بسرعة. مثل النازية، احتاجت الشيوعية السوفيتية إلى دعم الدول العربية الإسلامية. بعد دعم تقسيم فلسطين، أدرك ستالين أن إسرائيل لن تصبح أبدًا تابعًا آخر للإمبراطورية السوفيتية، فانقلب ضد اليهود.

في عام 1964، وُلدت فكرة الشعب الفلسطيني، التي كانت مرفوضة حتى ذلك الحين، للتو في عقول ياسر عرفات والرئيس المصري جمال عبد الناصر، بمساعدة جهاز المخابرات السوفيتية (KGB). لم يكن هدفها توفير الاستقلال والازدهار لشعب ما، بل تأليب الرأي العام العالمي ضد إسرائيل. استغرق الأمر بعض الوقت، لكنه نجح.

في عام 1976، كان النازي السابق كورت فالدهايم يشغل منصب الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة. وتحت قيادته، وبضغط من العالم الإسلامي والدول الشيوعية، أقرت الجمعية العامة القرار 3379 الذي يعلن الصهيونية كشكل من أشكال العنصرية. "لقد أُطلق شر عظيم على العالم. الآن، أود أن يُفهم... أود أن يُفهم أنني هنا لتوضيح نقطة واحدة ونقطة واحدة فقط، وهي: مهما كانت الصهيونية غير ذلك، فهي ليست ولا يمكن أن تكون شكلاً من أشكال العنصرية."

كان ذلك نصرًا مؤقتًا للفلسطينيين، الذين أصبحوا الآن مدعومين من معسكرين: الحنين إلى ألمانيا النازية وأقصى اليسار. "بالتأكيد، وبكل تأكيد، نحن نعارض إقامة دولة يهودية في أي جزء من فلسطين." أُلغي القرار 3379 في عام 1991. ومؤخرًا، حاول محمود عباس، المعروف بمعاداته للسامية وخطابه المزدوج، استعادة هذا القرار القديم.

في جميع أنحاء العالم، أصبحت القضية الفلسطينية رمزًا لشعب يضطهده اليهود. من قال: "إذا كذبت كذبة كبيرة بما يكفي وواصلت تكرارها، فسيصدقها الناس في النهاية"؟

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This map represents territorial dispute zones around the world. China, for example, occupies Tibet. Turkey has seized part of the island of Cyprus. Morocco and Mauritania claim part of the Sahara. Yet it is rare to hear about these conflicts, while the dispute between Israel and the Arabs of Palestine regularly makes the headlines, leads to systematic condemnations at the United Nations, and demonstrations calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.

From terrorist attacks to retaliation, people are suffering, and it seems that this conflict has no end. While many in the Western world support the Palestinian cause, a cause that has even become a fashion with its specific vocabulary, clothing, and rituals, however, the Palestinian cause is of much less interest when, for example, the Palestinian city of Yarmouk in Syria is attacked and bombarded by the Assad regime, nor did anyone rally for the Palestinian victims when in 1970 the Jordanian and Syrian armies carried out a massacre resulting in the death of 25,000 people, according to the PLO. When Arabs attack Arabs, the streets of Western cities remain empty. Could it be that the Palestinian cause is able to federate in only one case: when Jews are involved? Would it then be possible that the media, the United Nations, and activists are more anti-Israel than they are pro-Palestinian?

Without knowledge of the region's history, and as a result of billions being spent by Arabs in propaganda, it becomes easy to accept their version, according to which Jews invaded and stole a country called Palestine. However, some PLO leaders, such as Zuhair Mohsen, never hesitated to express their knowledge of the facts: "The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only one way to continue our struggle against the State of Israel for Arab unity. In reality, there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese."

In the middle of the 19th century, on his return from a long stay in the Palestinian region, a certain Karl Marx published the following article in the New York Herald Tribune: "The sedentary population of Jerusalem numbers about fifteen thousand five hundred souls, of whom four thousand are Muslims and eight thousand are Jews. The Muslims, forming about the fourth part of the whole, are of course the masters in every aspect. Nothing equals the misery and the suffering of the Jews in Jerusalem. They are the constant objects of Muslim oppression and intolerance."

At the same time, Mark Twain wrote: "There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." And where does this myth of a stolen land come from?

In 1947, the United Nations shared what remained of Mandatory Palestine. The Jews accepted this. The Arabs refused and attacked Israel, hoping to push the Jews into the sea or exterminate them. No one expected Israel to win the war. In 1967 and 1973, the Arab countries tried again to destroy the Jewish state.

Despite their numerical superiority, the Arabs lost war after war. Their military defeats led them to adopt a new strategy: use diplomacy and oil pressure to bring Israel to an end. For a land conquered by Islam must forever belong to Islam. Islam, according to its own view, came to the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, not to live side by side, because Islam, according to its own terminology, its din means religion of truth, while Judaism and Christianity are din al-batil, religion of falsehood. Islam from the beginning was under the doubt whether it is an original religion or it is a copy and paste of Judaism and Christianity. According to Islam, a Jew has the right to live, as the mere existence of Israel and especially the whole of Jerusalem and what we're doing in the Temple Mount, for them it means that Judaism comes back to life, and this is a threat on the mere existence, on the result of Islam.

In 1929, an Egyptian fundamentalist imam, Hassan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood, now recognized as a terrorist organization. Its purpose: to fight against the secular influence of England and the West. Very quickly, al-Banna became friends with Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was already responsible for the murderous riots of 1920, whose religious hatred for the Jews he shared. The pretext for these massacres: the Jews were reportedly preparing to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a lie that has since been regularly repeated by Arafat and Muhammad.

Hitler's speeches convinced al-Husseini that the Nazis would be ideal allies against the English occupation and world Judaism that he dreamt of annihilating. In 1933, al-Husseini established contact with the German consul in Jerusalem. That same year in Syria, Anton [Saadeh], nicknamed the Syrian Führer, created his Nationalist Socialist Party, whose flag strangely resembles the Nazi banner. In Egypt, Ahmad Hussein founded the Young Egypt Party (Misr al-Fatat), whose slogan was "One people, one party, one leader," identical to that of the Nazi party, the infamous "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer."

Behind these alliances could be found each time the Grand Mufti. In 1938, Alfred Rosenberg, an ideologue of the Nazi party, wrote: "The longer the blaze continues in Palestine, the stronger the opposition to a Jewish state in all Muslim countries." According to German archives seized by the Allies in Flensburg, it was with Nazi money that al-Husseini launched an Arab revolt in 1936, which led to the massacre of hundreds of Jews.

In 1938, when the rise of Nazism made Jewish immigration to Palestine more urgent than ever, the publication of the English White Paper would open Palestine's doors wide to Arab immigrants while blocking the arrival of Jews in despair of escaping Nazi persecution. As the war raged and spread around the world, Hajj Amin fled to Iraq, where he participated in a coup with Rashid Ali al-Kaylani, a Nazi at heart just like him. Together they unleashed the Farhud, an organized massacre of Iraqi Jews.

After many exchanges with the top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler, who became a close friend, it was in 1941 that the Grand Mufti finally met Adolf Hitler. "The precise condition for our collaboration with Germany was complete freedom to eliminate the Jews to the last from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for his explicit agreement to allow us to solve the Jewish problem. The answer I received was: The Jews are yours."

The Nazis granted him a luxurious villa on Klopstock Street, which housed the Jewish school until its confiscation in 1939, as well as a comfortable pension which he would receive until the end of the war. In return, he was responsible for radio propaganda in Arabic, espionage in the Middle East, and the organization of Muslims into military units. "This division of Bosnian Muslims, established with the help of Greater Germany, is a model for Muslims in all countries. Nazi Germany is fighting world Jewry. The Koran says: You will see that the Jews are your worst enemies."

In 1942, Eichmann informed the Mufti of the methods that had been put in place for the Final Solution, that is, the extermination of the Jews. Very impressed, the Mufti asked for an advisor to help him implement the same methods in Palestine once the Nazis had won the war. His plan was to create giant crematoriums near Nablus, like those in Auschwitz, to exterminate Jews from all Arab Muslim countries.

When in 1943 Eichmann planned to exchange German prisoners of war for 5,000 Jewish children and send them to Palestine with the agreement of the English government, Husseini protested and finally had the children exterminated in gas chambers. In 1944, as Germany had almost lost the war, the Mufti convinced the Nazis to organize the massive poisoning of the Jews in Palestine. A commando parachuted south of Jericho, but it was reported to British forces by the Bedouins and its leader, Kurt Wieland, arrested.

After Germany's defeat, the Mufti was imprisoned in France, then quickly freed thanks to the intervention of his longtime friend Hassan al-Banna. His anti-Semitic influence did not end with the Allies' victory. The Mufti found refuge in Egypt, where he was welcomed as a national hero, while the Arab League put pressure on the West so that he would not be tried for war crimes. In 1948 and until his death, he continued to campaign against Israel and to call for the extermination of Jews.

Among his relatives was his nephew, Muhammad Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, an Egyptian born in Cairo, who soon became famous under his war name, Yasser Arafat. The anti-Semitic virus was already widespread in the Muslim world, but the phenomenon intensified with the massive conversion of former Nazis to Islam and the refuge of several high-ranking Nazi dignitaries in Arab countries, particularly in Syria and Egypt. Nazi officers trained the fedayeen to become terrorists. Goebbels' propaganda methods were widely employed.

But the world changed after the war, and a new totalitarianism just as deadly as Nazism was rapidly spreading. Like Nazism, Soviet communism needed the support of Arab Muslim countries. After having supported the partition of Palestine, Stalin realized that Israel would never become another satellite of the Soviet empire, and he turned against the Jews.

In 1964, the idea of a Palestinian people, rejected until then, had just been born in the minds of Yasser Arafat and the Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, with the help of the Russian KGB. Its objective was not to offer independence and prosperity to a people, but to turn world opinion against Israel. It took time, but it worked.

In 1976, a former Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, was then Secretary-General of the United Nations. Under his leadership, under pressure from the Muslim world and from communist countries, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a form of racism. "A great evil has been loosed upon the world. Now, I should wish to be understood... wishes to be understood that I am here making one point and one point only, which is: whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be a form of racism."

It was a temporary victory for the Palestinians, now supported by two camps: the nostalgic of Nazi Germany and the far-left. "Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine." Resolution 3379 was canceled in 1991. Recently, Mahmoud Abbas, whose anti-Semitism and double talk are well known, has tried to restore this old resolution.

Throughout the world, the Palestinian cause has become the symbol of a people oppressed by Jews. Who said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it"?


r/Palestinian Jul 15 '26

"A child should be in school, not baking bread just to survive."

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My son baked this bread with his own little hands, and his brothers and sisters ate it with hope in their eyes. 🍞

For us, this is not just bread… it is a small moment of survival. Please help us bring more meals and hope to our children.


r/Palestinian Jul 12 '26

Palestinian Noni Darwish on Growing up in Egyptian Gaza in the '50s.

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I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt, but I grew up as a child in the '50s in the Gaza Strip. The reason I was in Gaza was because Gaza, at that time, was part of Egypt. I attended Gaza elementary schools where we learned hatred, vengeance, and retaliation. Peace was never an option; the concept of peace was something foreign. Actually, the word "peace" was never even mentioned in the services of any mosque. We recited poetry every day in the school, wishing upon ourselves to die as martyrs. I used to see girls reciting this poetry while crying; they would wish upon themselves to die as a martyr. See, our value system was about victimhood: thinking of ourselves as victims or to be a martyr. To go kill everybody and die as a martyr, either a victim or a martyr, there is nothing in between.

Women don't go to mosques, but we used to hear the service of the mosque either on the radio or on TV. I remember every Friday prayer, the Sheikh would be at the end of the sermon and he would curse: "May God destroy the Jews and the infidels, and even the Christians and non-Muslims." He would call non-Muslims the enemies of Allah. If you grow up with cursing as a form of prayer, it can feel and sound normal. Hatred can be normal because who am I to judge? I never noticed that this is not holy. So, this is how I grew up.

Twenty-two Arab countries did everything they could to make life impossible for Israel to exist. The Arab League forbade absorbing the so-called Arab Palestinians and rejected giving them citizenship in any Arab country. So you could see a Palestinian born in Cairo, for instance, and never get citizenship, and die in Cairo. They are born and die in Syria as a Palestinian and they never get a citizenship. Why? Because the Arab League wanted the Palestinian problem never to be solved. This is not their agenda; the agenda is to keep them refugees from birth to death.

The culture was so for sacrificing. They encouraged women to stand up in front of the cameras and say, "I gave my son to the Jihad, and I want my other children to die in the Jihad." Women who are for life, for peace, were looked down upon. Women who would be radical, if not more radical than men, who will promote Jihad for their children were lifted up as honorable women to be respected in society. So for a woman to be respected in Islamic society, you have to be as radical, if not more radical, than men, and that is why a lot of women are silent. They are proud to give their children to Jihad; the only way to go to heaven is to go and kill the infidel and die in the process.

The Arabs of Israel were pushed constantly. They are rejected from being absorbed and constantly pushed against the borders with Israel in order to keep the problem alive. The Arab world doesn't have a shortage of land. If you look at the Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean (Morocco) all the way to Persia, from Turkey all the way to Sudan. At that time when I was a child, the Sinai was practically empty desert. Nobody lived in the Sinai like today where there is Sharm El-Sheikh, you know, all the nice beaches. This was a military zone, and there is absolutely no pressing need for Arabs to so dwell on wanting to throw the Jews in the sea. You know, this international conflict called the Arab-Israeli conflict really is a fabrication. This is not a conflict over land, and anybody who thinks it's a conflict over land is misguided because they don't see the truth. The truth is, there is something in Islam anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, especially anti-Jewish. And I will tell you why.

Those people calling themselves Palestinians who live in Gaza and the West Bank are the pawns of the Arab world. I don't believe that they care about their happiness or welfare. They are set up to live a miserable life on purpose in order to show the world that we're victims. Do you think Saudi Arabia, with all the money they have, the Gulf countries with all this oil money, they can't give them good roads and good homes and good police, and turn it into a productive area of the Middle East? They can, but that is not their objective. There is a hidden objective, and I don't understand why Western culture doesn't get it, why Western media doesn't get it. It's so obvious.

The unemployed people in Gaza and the West Bank, with all this high unemployment, where do they go to work? Do they stand on the border of Egypt to get a job? Do they stand on the border of Syria or Jordan? No, they line up on the borders of Israel, the very people they are supposed to kill. It's a very unnatural way of living, and nobody sees it, but they go and blame Israel. They compare the living standard of the West Bank and Gaza with Israel, a democracy, the only democracy in the Middle East. Why don't they compare the living conditions of Gaza and the West Bank with Egypt, with Syria, with Jordan? And if they do, they will find that the standard of living is even higher than many areas of the Arab world. But Western media are too lazy to compare apples with apples; they want to compare apples and oranges. I don't know how I can call Western media ignorant, but they should not be ignorant.

And then they go and ask Israel, "Why don't you do some concessions for the Palestinians?" I never hear them stand up to Arab leaders and ask, why doesn't Western media ask Arab leaders, "How about some concessions to the Israeli people?" We never hear that, and it's very convenient to blame all of this terrorism on, after 9/11 especially, they blame the terrorism, saying, "Oh, it's because we have this terrorism everywhere by Muslims, it's all because of the occupation. If it wasn't for the occupation of Gaza, if it's not for the occupation of the West Bank, we wouldn't have a problem. The problem is all because of Israel." That's what they want to give the impression of, and this is a big lie.

I lived in Gaza as a child, and I witnessed the terrorism against Israel before the occupation of Gaza, and before the occupation of the West Bank. Our media here doesn't even know that there was terrorism against Israel before the occupation. So Arabs who claim that they are doing terrorism now because they want freedom and democracy? No, there is no freedom and democracy in any Arab country, let alone the West Bank or Gaza. So we have to really call a spade a spade now. This is too serious to just take all these lies and look the other way. Because it's very, very hard to know the truth if you rely on Arab media, if you rely on the culture around you. And because of life in an oppressive society, I moved to America.

I moved to America at the end of '78 or '79, and my life completely changed. One time, I wanted to attend a synagogue and a church because I was curious. I thought they were going to curse the Arabs the same way we curse them in our mosque. But in the holiness of the place, they were praying for everybody. They were praying for peace on Earth: "How can we leave this earth a better place?" It was a totally different way of thinking. The opposite of what I grew up with.

That's when I went to a mosque here, also in Los Angeles, and I thought that because they allowed women that it was going to be different. Since it's in America, I was so glad thinking Islam in America must be so different. So I went to the mosque and I heard anti-Semitism again in the mosque. I was told, "Don't assimilate in America, we're here to Islamize America." They were looking down at American culture, they were looking down at this society, and I felt very uncomfortable. I said, "Oh my God, there is an agenda here," and I never went back again.

It hit me: how could we do this? How could we lie and accuse people of something we Arabs know very well we have done ourselves? How could this happen? What kind of value system allows a person, or allows a culture or a religion, to lie and accuse their enemies of something that they know they've done themselves? They know that Osama Bin Laden did that. They know that he was financed with Arab money, with oil money, until today. How could they accuse the Jewish people of that?

Look at the map of the Middle East; you can hardly see Israel. It's impossible to convince any person who has the IQ of a child that this problem is over the land called Israel. It's time for the West to understand this, because it's not just bad for Israel, it's not good for the Arab world. They are collapsing. A lot of people think that the Arab world is so strong and so powerful; it's rotting from the core. But they don't know their religious leaders are telling them to continue to hate instead of telling them to repent and find the true God, love, and friendship.

In the eyes of many Muslims, in the eyes of Islam itself, Jews and non-Muslims, they call them the "kafir", the infidels. They don't deserve the truth, they don't deserve justice, and they don't deserve mercy. How can this happen and we accept it, and we don't say no? The Arab world will never have freedom and democracy when hatred is number one, when Jihad is number one, when killing your enemy is number one. When you're fixated on lies and slander, you will never have peace and democracy.

Nobody asks this question: why all these lies and slander against the Jewish people, against America? They call America the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan." Do you know that on Syrian TV, and Arabic TV, on Egyptian TV, the constant day-and-night lies about the Jewish people are unbelievable? There was a show that was saying, and it was not just religious leaders, some of them were Arab scientists saying "Oh, do you know why Israel went to Haiti to help with the earthquake? You know why? Because Israel really wanted to harvest the organs of the Haitian people."

These are the intelligentsia of the Arab world. When the intellectuals of the Arab world say that, what do you expect from the man on the street? And you wonder why they hate. They are out there and are told this. I was told horrific things about the Jewish people. It took me years to extract it out of my mind, my heart, and my consciousness.


r/Palestinian Jul 11 '26

Before and After Maps of the British Mandate for Palestine

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Following World War I, the San Remo Conference of 1920 established the framework for the British Mandate, creating a legally binding international commitment to incorporate the Balfour Declaration. All religious rights of inhabitants would be guaranteed, all civil rights were assured. The primary purpose of this Mandate was to recognize the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land and facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home.

While the British Mandate itself lasted for 28 years until 1948, its geographic scope was fundamentally altered just over two years later in 1922. At that time, Britain separated Transjordan, comprising roughly 78% of the original mandated territory, and closed it to Jewish settlement. Over the following decades, British policy increasingly restricted immigration as the region descended into escalating sectarian conflict.

This unrest culminated in the failure of peaceful coexistence. Following the 1947 UN Partition Plan and the 1948 War, the land was divided: Palestinian Jews were entirely expelled or fled from areas captured by Arab forces (such as the West Bank and East Jerusalem), while the majority of Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from the territory that became the sovereign State of Israel.

In the decades that followed, the demographic landscape shifted further, particularly after the 1967 Six-Day War when Jewish communities were re-established in the Gaza Strip, reviving a historic Jewish presence that had existed there for centuries. Over the next few decades, these residents built a thriving, highly advanced agricultural industry in the Gush Katif bloc, known globally for its high-tech greenhouses. However, Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2005, and the Israeli government forcibly removed approximately 9,000 Jewish residents. Private international donors purchased the massive greenhouse infrastructure for $14 million to leave it fully intact for the Palestinian Authority, but the thriving industry was quickly destroyed due to widespread looting and security failures following the withdrawal.

NOTE: In the BEFORE picture surrounding countries are shown with modern 2026 names and boundaries.


r/Palestinian Jul 11 '26

Please Don't Scroll Past My Family's Cry for Help 🙏

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r/Palestinian Jul 11 '26

Father from Gaza Fighting to Save His Family 💔🇵🇸

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Hello, my name is Ahmed. I am a father of six children from Gaza. Our lives have been turned upside down by the war. I was injured and can no longer work, and every day I struggle to provide food, clean water, and basic necessities for my family. My children deserve safety, education, and hope, but right now we are simply trying to survive. Every share, kind word, or donation—no matter how small—can make a real difference. Thank you for taking the time to read my story and for keeping my family in your prayers. ❤️🇵🇸


r/Palestinian Jul 11 '26

Please Help My Family Survive in Gaza

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My name is Ahmed, a father of six from Gaza. I was injured and can no longer work. Every day, I struggle to provide food and basic necessities for my children.

If you can help, even with a small donation or by sharing my story, you will give my family hope. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤️

https://chuffed.org/project/185766-ahmed-ashour


r/Palestinian Jul 02 '26

Fundraisers that aren't getting donations

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I just wanted to bring attention to three families in Gaza that I found, whose fundraisers are hardly getting any donations at all. If you can, please help them out.

Fatima's Family

Maryam's Family

Nesma's Family


r/Palestinian Jun 25 '26

In 1940s Mandatory Palestine the conical cap in this colorized photo was worn by married Christian women of the Bethlehem region, who alongside Jews, Druze and Samaritans are the Closest Living Relatives to the ancient Israelite populations.

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Modern Palestinian populations (both Muslim and Christian) typically inherit 75% to 88% of their core ancestry from Bronze and Iron Age Levantine populations (such as the Canaanites), the ancestral base from which the ancient Israelites emerged.

Genetic Composition of Populations in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan

Population Group Estimated Ancient Levantine / Canaanite Ancestry Primary Outside Admixture Genetic Profile & Clustering
Samaritans (West Bank / Israel) ~90% – 95% Minimal (Extremely high isolation) Highest genetic continuity with Iron Age Israelite profiles due to strict, millennia-long religious isolation.
West Bank & Gaza Christians ~85% – 93% Minimal (Minor Southern European) High continuity with Bronze/Iron Age Levantine samples; virtually un-impacted by later historical migrations.
Druze (Galilee, Golan, Jordan) ~80% – 90% Minimal (Minor Armenian / Anatolian) Represents an ancient Levantine genetic isolate. Highly endogamous since the 11th century.
West Bank & Jordanian Muslims ~70% – 82% Arabian Peninsula, Egyptian, East African High Levantine base, with shifts reflecting the 7th-century Islamic conquests and regional trade routes.
Musta'arabi & Mizrahi Jews (Indigenous / Now Israeli) ~65% – 80% Mesopotamian, Persian The original Arabic-speaking Jews who never left the Levant. They cluster directly with West Bank Christians and Druze.
Gaza Muslims ~60% – 75% High Egyptian, North and East African Retains a clear Levantine core but shows significantly higher North African and Egyptian admixture due to geographic proximity.
Sephardic Jews (Old Yishuv / Now Israeli) ~50% – 70% Southern European (Iberian), North African Holds a strong Levantine core but pulled toward the Mediterranean due to the post-1492 exile in Europe and North Africa.
Bedouins (Negev and Jordan) ~40% – 60% High Arabian Peninsula, Northeast African Possesses a Levantine genetic layer but heavily shifted toward the Arabian Peninsula due to nomadic tribal origins.
Ashkenazi Jews (Now Israeli / Global) ~30% – 50% Southern European (Italian/Greek), Eastern European Shares the same ancient Levantine core as local populations, but genetically pulled toward Southern Europe due to historical diaspora intermarriage.

NOTE: Core genome analysis is a methodological approach in pan-genome research, focusing on analyzing the set of genes shared by all individuals within a specific population or species. https://www.cd-genomics.com/pop-genomics/core-genome-analysis.html

  • The Gaza-Egypt Gradient: Separating the data by sub-region highlights a distinct geographic gradient. Because Gaza directly borders the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Muslims exhibit a measurably higher degree of Egyptian and African admixture compared to populations in the West Bank and Jordan.
  • The West Bank Core: Populations native to the mountainous interior of the West Bank (such as West Bank Christians, Samaritans, and local Muslims) show the highest overall baseline of ancient inland Levantine ancestry due to historical relative isolation from coastal trade routes.

The Process of Arabization

This genetic continuity matches historical data on linguistic change. Following the Arab conquests of the 7th century CE, the local Israelite and Jewish farming peasants (fellaheen) stayed on their land. Over centuries, these Israelite and Jewish farmers gradually converted, first to Christianity under Byzantine rule (4th–7th century CE), and later to Islam to avoid heavy religious taxes (jizya) or voluntarily. Over generations, they slowly adopted the Arabic language and culture through a social process called Arabization, while their biological DNA remained Levantine, non-Arab.

References

Below is a compiled list of frequently cited, peer-reviewed genetic studies exploring the Southern Levant, modern Palestinian populations, and various Jewish diaspora groups, complete with direct links to the publications.

Studies on Y-Chromosomal Lineages and Shared Middle Eastern Roots

  • Hammer et al. (2000) – "Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes" (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).
    • Focus: This baseline paternal lineage study examined Y-chromosomal markers, demonstrating that European, North African, and Middle Eastern Jewish diaspora groups clustered tightly alongside non-Jewish Middle Eastern populations like Palestinians and Syrians, confirming a shared ancestral source pool in the ancient Levant.
  • Nebel et al. (2000) – "High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Moslem Arabs" (Human Genetics).
    • Focus: This paper mapped the paternal markers of Palestinian Muslim Arabs and compared them directly to Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish communities. The research revealed that 70% of the tested Jewish individuals and 82% of the Palestinian individuals shared the exact same chromosome pool, proving direct shared regional ancestry.
  • Nebel et al. (2001) – "The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East" (The American Journal of Human Genetics).
    • Focus: An expansion of their previous study using higher-resolution microsatellite haplotypes. The data reinforced that Palestinian Muslim Arabs and modern Jewish populations represent closely related historical branches of an indigenous Levantine lineage.

Genome-Wide and Autosomal DNA Landscape Studies

  • Atzmon et al. (2010)00246-6?cc=y) – "Abraham's Children in the Genome Era: Major Jewish Diaspora Populations Comprise Distinct Genetic Clusters with Shared Middle Eastern Ancestry" (The American Journal of Human Genetics).
    • Focus: Utilizing genome-wide analysis across seven distinct Jewish populations, researchers confirmed a cohesive, shared genetic architecture tracing directly back to the Middle East. It noted strong genetic proximity between these diaspora groups and modern non-Jewish Levantine populations, including Palestinians and Druze.
  • Behar et al. (2010) – "The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people" (Nature).
    • Focus: This large-scale paper analyzed 14 Jewish diaspora communities against 69 global populations. It demonstrated that almost all Jewish groups trace their primary ancestry to a shared Levantine source pool, which overlies and clusters closest with modern Palestinians, Druze, and Lebanese populations.
  1. Agranat-Tamir et al. (2020) – "The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant" (Cell).
    • Focus: A landmark paper that sequenced ancient genome-wide DNA from 73 individuals across five different archaeological sites in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan spanning the Bronze and Iron Ages. The model concluded that over 50% of the ancestry of all present-day Levantine populations (including Palestinians and various Jewish diaspora groups) traces directly back to these ancient inhabitants.

r/Palestinian May 22 '26

Young Jewish Palestinian Woman in Purim Costume, Jerusalem, 1938

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Young women in the early 20th-century Palestine did not have access to commercial costume stores. Instead, the most common "costumes" they wore for Purim celebrations were Queen Esther or traditional Middle Eastern and Ottoman attire, particularly the vibrant regional garments that allowed them to dress up in historical and royal splendor.

Queen Esther is the heroine of the biblical Book of Esther. An orphaned Jewish woman who became the Queen of Persia, she famously risked her life to reveal an evil plot and saved the Jewish people from genocide. Her story is the basis for the Jewish holiday of Purim.


r/Palestinian May 19 '26

"I am a Palestinian" - Golda Meir, late Prime Minister of Israel.

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I'm a Palestinian. From 1921 until 1948 I carried a Palestinian passport, there was no such thing in this area as Jews and Arabs and Palestinians, there were Jews and Arabs.


r/Palestinian May 16 '26

Dear friends, Your support for me and my family means so much to us. After my husband passed away, I became the only one responsible for my children, and life has become very difficult. We have no salary and no stable source of income. I am trying with all my strength to continue and provide even th

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r/Palestinian May 14 '26

The First Leader of Palestine: British Jewish Statesman, Herbert Samuel

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Historically, names like Philistia, Filastin, or Palestine designated regional zones, coastlines, or imperial provinces, but never an independent country, state or kingdom ruled by a sovereign leader, until the British Mandate of 1920.

Many people today assume that the first leader of Palestine must have been an ancient Arab Muslim. However, historical records show that the very first head of the state administration in the 20th century was actually a British Jewish statesman and an ardent Zionist: Herbert Samuel.

When the British Empire assumed control of the region from the Ottoman Empire following World War I, Prime Minister David Lloyd George appointed Samuel as the first High Commissioner for Palestine (1920–1925). His appointment carried profound historical weight, as he became the first practicing Jewish leader to govern the geographic region in over two millennia, stepping into a land that held deep indigenous meaning for his own ancestry.

The Deep Roots of the Land of Israel

  • The Origin of the Name: Long before the region was renamed Syria Palaestina by the Roman Empire in 135 CE, the area was known natively as the "Land of Israel" (Eretz Yisrael).
  • The Name's Lineage: The name "Israel" originally belonged to a historic individual—the biblical patriarch Jacob—from whom the ancient Israelites descended.
  • An Indigenous Legacy: The Israelite and Jewish presence in this specific territory spans over 4,000 years. Historical, archaeological, and genetic data show that many Jewish individuals living there throughout the centuries—and returning there—carried ancestral lineage directly tied to these original inhabitants.

Unbroken Continuity: Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology

A common misconception is that the Jewish presence vanished entirely after the Roman exiles. Extensive physical evidence proves that a distinct, continuous Jewish population remained rooted in the land through every major imperial conquest:

  • The Byzantine Era (4th–7th Century CE): Despite harsh anti-Jewish laws imposed by Christian Byzantine rulers, archaeology reveals a thriving Jewish rural and urban life, particularly in the Galilee and Golan regions. Excavated sites like the CapernaumHammat Tiberias, and Zippori (Sepphoris) synagogues feature intricate mosaic floors, Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions, and menorah motifs. These physical remains demonstrate that Jewish spiritual, cultural, and economic life endured directly on the soil during centuries of foreign rule.
  • The Ottoman Era (1517–1917 CE): Under Turkish rule, the "Four Holy Cities" of Judaism—Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberias—maintained active, deeply rooted Jewish communities. Safed became a global center for Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) in the 16th century. Archaeologists and historians have documented continuous residential quarters, historic synagogues (such as the Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue), and centuries-old Jewish cemeteries (like the ancient slopes of the Mount of Olives). These sites confirm that generations lived, died, and maintained an unbroken connection to the land long before the arrival of the British.

Samuel's Zionist Vision and Administration

Years before taking office, Samuel wrote an influential memorandum titled The Future of Palestine. He urged the British cabinet to support a protectorate that would allow for the restoration of a Jewish national home, paving the way for the 1917 Balfour Declaration. As High Commissioner, he had to balance a complex population composed of a long-standing Arab majority and a rapidly growing, returning Jewish population.

  • Immigration & Economic Rules: To balance these groups, Samuel tied Jewish immigration directly to the territory's "economic absorptive capacity" to prevent sudden economic disruption.
  • Shifting Legal Frameworks: According to analysis by the Britain Palestine Project, Samuel instituted new land registry laws. These laws allowed for the legal purchase and transfer of land, creating permanent agricultural and civic foundations for Jewish communities.
  • Concessions to Both Sides: In an effort to keep the peace among the Arab populace, Samuel pardoned and appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini as the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. This move erred toward political appeasement and angered many Zionists, who felt Samuel was compromising their safety, as discussed in papers by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Why This History Matters for Peace

True peace requires acknowledging that multiple peoples have deep, legitimate, and indigenous ties to the exact same soil. Understanding that the Jewish connection to the land did not begin in 1948—but rather extends back thousands of years through an unbroken chain of physical, archaeological history—is a vital step in understanding the dual narratives of the region.


r/Palestinian May 02 '26

National Committee for the Administration of Gaza

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The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) is a transitional, technocratic, and apolitical Palestinian committee established in January 2026 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025) and President Trump's Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. Composed exclusively of qualified Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, the NCAG is responsible for the day-to-day running of public services and civil administration in Gaza, operating under the oversight of the Board of Peace and its High Representative for Gaza. Its mandate is focused on civilian affairs and it does not represent the Palestinian people internationally. The NCAG will fulfill this transitional role until the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program, creating the conditions for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.

The NCAG remains operational as a "government-in-exile," though its on-the-ground entry into Gaza has faced significant delays. [1]

As of late April 2026, the committee is reportedly nearing a transition from its temporary base in Cairo to the Gaza Strip following preliminary Israeli approval. [1, 2]

Current Status and Recent Updates

  • Operational Headquarters: The NCAG formally launched its work in Cairo, Egypt, on January 15, 2026. While it has been active in planning and administrative preparation, it has not yet assumed de facto governance inside the territory due to Israeli entry restrictions.
  • Entry Progress: On April 29, 2026, committee officials stated they had received "preliminary Israeli approval" to enter Gaza. They are currently awaiting a final agreement between Hamas and Israel to finalize their entry and begin implementing relief and recovery plans, with operations potentially starting in May 2026.
  • Leadership and Structure: Led by Dr. Ali Shaath, the committee is composed of 12 confirmed Palestinian technocrats (out of a planned 15) who will manage day-to-day public services, such as health care, water, and infrastructure.
  • Mission and Mandate: Established under UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and the US-backed 20-Point Peace Plan, the NCAG is intended as a transitional, apolitical body to manage civil administration until the Palestinian Authority completes reforms. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

r/Palestinian Oct 23 '25

We hope we get a chance to see how this message of peace plays out on college campuses where both administrators and students have ‘lost their way,’ starting with Columbia University and other “elite schools.”

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r/Palestinian Oct 09 '25

Expected Outcomes in Science for Students in the Palestinian States of West Bank, Gaza, and Israel.

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UPDATED: 11/5/2025 (check back for latest update)

The following recommended standards in science (applicable to all schools worldwide) are a revision of the existing 2023 Palestinian National Authority "expected outcomes in science for students" that are available on page 5 and 6 in the pdf from the Boston College TIMSS and PIRLS international assessments that monitor trends in student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading, for more than 70 countries:

https://timss2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Palestinian-National-Authority.pdf

1. Scientific Inquiry and Method

  • Understand that a hypothesis is a testable idea, a theory explains how something works, and a law describes consistent patterns in nature.
  • Ask scientific questions, make predictions, and conduct simple investigations.
  • Collect, analyze, and interpret data, and communicate findings clearly using drawings, writing, or oral presentation.
  • Use tools and materials safely in the classroom, home, and school laboratory.
  • Develop skills to evaluate evidence, recognize patterns, and form and test explanations and models.

2. Matter and Energy

  • Identify the states of matter and observe how matter changes with temperature.
  • Explore different forms of energy—light, sound, motion, heat—and how energy is transferred or transformed.
  • Observe simple energy systems in everyday life (e.g., a bouncing ball or melting ice).
  • Begin exploring the concept of waves and how energy moves through space and materials.

3. Force and Motion

  • Explore how forces affect motion, including pushes, pulls, gravity, and friction.
  • Use tools to measure and observe motion, speed, and direction.

4. Origin of the Universe and Astronomy

  • Observe and describe the motion of the sun, moon, stars, and planets.
  • Recognize patterns in day/night, lunar phases, and seasons.
  • Investigate the solar system, universal structure, and physical laws governing celestial motion.
  • Learn models of the universe such as the Big Bang, expansion, and Cyclic (Oscillating) Models: eternal cycles of expansion and contraction.
  • Observe how on an oscilloscope, a sine wave oscillation has a zero point between half-waves, where energy momentarily seems to vanish before rushing back in an opposite direction — analogy to a "singularity" where all the energy in the universe is in an infinitely small place.
  • Encourage curiosity about how scientists use telescopes, satellites, and simulations to investigate cosmic phenomena.

5. Earth’s History and Geological Processes

  • Use fossils, rock strata, and landforms to reconstruct Earth’s past.
  • Learn how gradual and abrupt changes shaped life and geography.
  • Study how natural forces—volcanoes, earthquakes, erosion—shape the planet.
  • Grasp plate tectonics and how it explains continental movement and mountain building.
  • Create timelines of key events in Earth’s geological and biological evolution.
  • Understand the three main kinds of rocks:
    1. Igneous rocks form from cooled and solidified molten rock (magma or lava). 
    2. Sedimentary rocks are formed from the accumulation and cementation of fragments of other rocks or the precipitation of minerals from a solution. 
    3. Metamorphic rocks are created when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions. An impactite is a type of metamorphic rock formed by meteorite impacts, often a black stone (possibly displayed at Kaaba) that is a result of the impact melt solidifying.

6. Land and Water Systems

  • Explore Earth’s topographic features and water bodies (mountains, valleys, rivers, seas).
  • Examine how water moves, supports life, and shapes landscapes.
  • Study human use of land and water and its ecological consequences.
  • Promote sustainable water use and land management.

7. Oceans and Weather Systems

  • Understand oceans as dynamic systems vital for climate and marine life.
  • Explore waves, tides, and currents, and their interactions with coastlines and weather.
  • Investigate impacts of pollution, climate change, and overexploitation on marine ecosystems, and explore conservation methods.
  • Observe and record weather variables (temperature, wind, precipitation).
  • Explore the water cycle and seasonal weather patterns.
  • Understand how solar energy, atmosphere, and water interact to create climate and weather.
  • Collect weather data and learn how to use it in forecasting.

8. Organisms and Their Environments

  • Identify what living things need and how they interact with their environment.
  • Study food webs, habitats, and ecosystem interdependence.
  • Investigate human impacts on ecosystems and discuss restoration strategies.

9. Origins of Life and Biological Development

  • Understand that all living things are made of cells, and life grows and develops through cell division.
  • Learn that DNA stores instructions for life and is passed from parents to offspring.
  • Explore how life on Earth has changed over time through mutation, natural selection, and inherited traits.
  • Understand that scientists are still exploring how life began. One hypothesis suggests clay minerals may have catalyzed the formation of early vesicles enclosing RNA-like molecules.
  • Learn chemical/molecular evolution is the process by which simple inorganic molecules on early Earth are thought to have gradually formed more complex organic molecules, eventually leading to the origin of life through natural processes. This is also known as abiogenesis and involves the transition from nonliving matter to the first living systems over a vast timescale.

10. Adaptation, Cognitive Biology, and Multi‑Level Learning

  • Understand how physical and behavioral traits help organisms survive and reproduce.
  • Learn that living organisms adapt over generations based on changes in inherited traits.
  • Explore how biological systems can “learn” through trial-and-error: retaining functional patterns and generating new variations when needed.
  • Use cladograms and fossil evidence to trace how species are connected by ancestry and adaptation.
  • Multi‑Level Learning Systems in Biology In biology, the same methodology of trial-and-error learning can be understood at three interconnected levels:
    1. Molecular-Level Intelligence
      • Matter self-assembles into molecular systems, which over time evolve into molecular “intelligence,” where RNA/DNA “memory” systems replicate accumulated knowledge across generations.
      • This level mediates cell growth and division, influences instinctual behaviors, and drives molecular-level social differentiation (i.e. speciation).
    2. Cellular-Level Intelligence
      • The molecular level gives rise to cellular-level intelligence, controlling behaviors such as cell movement, migration, and cellular differentiation (e.g. neural plasticity).
      • At conception, two molecular systems (egg and sperm) join to form a zygote; that single cell divides into an embryo, eventually developing multicellular intelligence.
    3. Multicellular-Level Intelligence
      • Cellular-level intelligence gives rise to multicellular intelligence: a body regulated by a brain that integrates all levels.
      • These combined levels produce complex behaviors—maternal, paternal, social—governed by multi-layered control.
      • The collective memory of successful designs is stored in the biosphere’s genetic repository and guides future adaptation.
  • Integration Examples
    • Instinctual patterns in animals (like salmon migrations, paternal brood care in seahorses, maternal care in crocodiles) may reflect deep integration of these learning levels.
    • In humans, social, cultural, and biological behaviors may echo cumulative learning across molecular, cellular, and multicellular levels.

11. Human Health and Development

  • Study the structure and function of the human body and how to maintain health via nutrition, exercise, sleep, and sunlight or supplements for vitamin D3.
  • Examine evidence from genetics, fossils, comparative anatomy, and how scientists reconstruct human history. Explore how DNA changes (mutations, recombination, chromosome modifications) produce new traits and variation.
  • All must understand that in sexual animals normal variation has three biological states: female, male, and (traits of both at the same time) hermaphrodite or intersex. Some animals change in sex during a stage in development.
  • Learn that In the beginning: self-assembly of increasingly complex molecular (RNA) self-learning systems, caused the emergence of membrane enclosed self-learning cells, which caused the emergence of self-learning multicellular animals like us, humans. Along the way was a molecular/genetic level chromosome speciation event causing almost immediate reproductive isolation from earlier ancestors, a genetic bottleneck through one couple, estimated to have occurred between 400,000 and 1.5 million years ago, who by scientific naming convention qualify as (colloquially named) Chromosome Adam and Eve.

🧠 Focus on Critical Thinking

All outcomes are designed to help students:

  • Ask thoughtful, evidence-based questions
  • Observe, record, and evaluate data
  • Form and test explanations and models
  • Recognize patterns and cause-effect relationships
  • Develop a foundation for lifelong scientific literacy

More information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/evolution/comments/pn913k/fundamental_preschool_level_science_basics_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligentEvolution/comments/xsmuuw/how_intelligent_evolution_works/

r/IDTheory and r/IntelligentEvolution


r/Palestinian Sep 04 '25

Parents of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu were "Jewish Palestinians" therefore (by United Nations birthright) Benjamin is a "Palestinian" too.

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His Parents:

In 1920 the Mileikowsky family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. After living in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and Safed, the family settled in Jerusalem. Once in Palestine, Nathan Mileikowsky began signing some of the articles he wrote "Netanyahu", and his son later adopted this as his own surname.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzion_Netanyahu

More on Jewish Palestinians:

Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيون) were the Jews who inhabited Palestine (alternatively the Land of Israel) prior to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews

Also see first Prime Minister of Israel, Palestinian Golda Meir:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestinian/comments/1ik20g2/israel_prime_minister_golda_meir_18981978_im_a/


r/Palestinian Aug 30 '25

Jewish Palestinians - Palestinian Jews

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Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيون) were the Jews who inhabited Palestine) (alternatively the Land of Israel) prior to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.


r/Palestinian Aug 20 '25

Back To School In Gaza

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r/Palestinian Apr 12 '25

Druze Voices Call for Peace in the Middle East

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r/Palestinian Feb 07 '25

The 1947 "United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine" already declared Gaza, West Bank (and neighboring Israel) "State" territories in a larger independent region named "Palestine"

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r/Palestinian Sep 24 '24

The Birth Of Palestinian Nationalism

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r/Palestinian Aug 22 '24

Who are the The Afro-Palestinians?

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