Ep 192. - 2024: Gaza’s Defiance and the Miserable Muslim Rulers with Sami Hamdi - Part 1
This year we have seen two Muslim countries move away from bitter dictatorships, Bangladesh and Syria. Yet the horrific scenes in Gaza remain. Any joy that comes from Syria is always muted as we endure the horrific genocide perpetrated by the west and its colonial enterprise.
Gaza exposes the hollowness of an international order. The civil war in Sudan remains active, Pakistan’s generals have consolidated power, and the Egyptian pharaoh seems comfortable aiding Israel in its blood-shedding and the Saudis are looking forward to selling Palestine for a US security deal. We have the pleasure of inviting Sami Hamdi back on the show to look at the year gone and the year ahead.
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Introduction
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so for those who feel deflated the Palestinian cause is not affected by you giving up on it
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enough Muslims will buy into a false narrative that Saudi brought about peace because it
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normalized the Iranian Hezbollah narrative has always been that they were winning I don't get it
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I'm bombarding these Palestinians I'm destroying them and I'm finding myself increasingly isolated
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here is the Crux of the issue the Palestinians aren't surrendering and that's the point about Neto strategic objectives he had none he can't find one he can't achieve one is your optimism
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based on the political reality was it built on a more metaphysical sort of understanding when G came and said I've given up on the Arabs it was the cause of Palestine that gave him the honor the
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liberation of Palestine comes to the liberation of Syria and Egypt if you feel deflated that's on
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you this year we've seen two Muslim countries move away from bitter dictatorships Bangladesh
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and Syria yet the horrific scenes in Gaza remain any joy that comes from Syria is always muted as
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we endure the horrific genocide perpetrated by the west and its Colonial Enterprise Gaza exposes the
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holess of an international order now the Civil War in Sudan remains active Pakistan's generals
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have Consolidated power and the Egyptian pharaoh CCE seems comfortable aiding Israel in its blood
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Lettin and the Saudis are looking forward to selling Palestine for a US security deal
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alhamdulillah today we have the pleasure of inviting Sami Hamdi back on the show again to look at the year ahead and the year gone please as always remember to subscribe to this podcast
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on your preferred platform this helps us grow our audience alhamdulillah we are now the second most
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listened to Muslim podcast on Apple if you want to support the show please think about becoming
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a patreon for a small monthly donation you'll be helping to expand our reach and our content Sami
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hamam alum welcome back to it's good to have you back in the UK Sammy I hope you're enjoying the
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weather alhamdulillah uh so Samy we've got a lot to get through today I mean I've sort of placed
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this show as our 2024 uh sum up or as a as a way of looking back at this year the highs and belows
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as well as a look ahead uh and to get some of your predictions about 2025 inshallah but let's
Saudi Ceasefire agreement
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start Sammy where we started at the start of the year I think we had a podcast back in December
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last year on Gaz and Gaza remains a problem uh today uh there has been talk of a ceasefire with
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the Saudis negotiating a normalization deal in exchange for the cessation of violence or
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Israeli violence is this how the Saudis are going to find acceptability for the Abraham Accords to
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to sign some sort of um ceasefire agreement uh with Gaza as the as the condition I think there
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are two ways to look at this I think the first is to focus you uniquely on Gaza I think the reality
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is that there is a sense on the part of Netanyahu that he has crushed the Iranian proxies that he
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has rendered hisbah almost impotent although some Rockets are still being fired here and there but
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the assassination of a number of leaders he will have celebrated that and he will also celebrate the terms of the ceasefire that were negotiated with hisbah in that hisbah were forced to accept
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terms that Netanyahu or forced to accept terms that they didn't like that Netanyahu wanted and
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also the idea that even if militarily they haven't taken much in Lebanon despite the ceasefire being
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signed Netanyahu has continued to bomb Lebanon without necessarily much of a response from
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Hezbollah itself as they try to reorganize and try to restructure and reorder themselves and adapt to what's happening in neighboring Syria as well given the ey of the Syrian people who
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blame Iran and blame hisbah for propping up mashar Assad and preventing their Revolution from taking place as a result of this sense from Netanyahu he believes that he can continue now
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to bomb razza particularly given that Gazza has fallen slightly amongst the headlines and therefore there is a move now on the part of netan to try to really push settlers into Gazza and find
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some sort of safe area for the Israelis within Gazza itself whereby to actually Institute some
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sort of settlement or land that is taking place he's struggling to do so but he believes there is a wind of opportunity to do so given that he believes that militarily he is in the ascendancy I
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think that also domestic population Israel itself you'd have seen that Viral podcast that went of
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two Israelis talking to each other saying that as an Israeli when we're partying and NAA it feels
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much nicer dancing now knowing there are thousands of Palestinians who are in homeless tents knowing
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that they're being pounded and the like and I think that accurately accurately reflects Israeli sentiment the more Netanyahu gives this impression that he's winning militarily the more
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the Israelis are giving him a Lifeline to continue bombing to continue bombarding or all the like I
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think the only thing that is on the horizon that suggest that the Saudis are willing to normalize is that Times of Israel reported that Trump informed Netanyahu that he has until the 20th of
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January to continue the genocide 20th of January being the day that Trump enters the White House Trump effectively told Netanyahu according to the Times of Israel that I don't want this happening
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on my watch I want to be the guy who fixes what Biden broke I want to be the individual I want the
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world to say that Trump brought peace on an issue that Biden could not bring peace to and also the
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prime minister and the former qat for Minister Muhammad Alani I wouldn't take the Times of Israel necessarily at face value but the Qatari prime minister Muhammad Muhammed ABD Alani also gave an
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interview to Reuters in which he said that Trump has he has confirmed Trump has told Netanyahu that
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he needs to wrap this up soon before the 20th of January I think in this context there is now a
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flurry of negotiations that are taking place and the Saudis feel like that they are caught in a very difficult situation Syria Bashar has fallen remember it was Bin Salman who barged in on the
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UAE which was trying to rehabilitate bash Assad and said no I want to be the one who rehabilitates Bashar Assad let him come to riy for the Arab League it was Bin Salman who felt that I need
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to make concessions to the Iranians because the US has not giving me protection let me spite the US by making concession to the Iranians he made those concessions and suddenly realized that the
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Iranian influence fell like a spiders web in in Syria itself so he's like wait a minute I'm now
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Co I alienated the Syrian people I alienated the new Syrian government erdogan who came and to me
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to ask for reconciliation now suddenly he's in the ascendancy not me again me and the UAE are
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clashing over their Vision 2030 because every time I'm considering to allow alcohol in Saudi Arabia UAE goes and allows cohabitation without marriage between a boyfriend and a girlfriend
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and they decide to build a casino every time I do one step UAE UPS the ante to try to bring Western
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companies to be based in the UAE bin Salman is saying given that I'm struggling on these various different fronts let me now use this opportunity given Trump is Now setting some sort of deadline
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to try to maximize what I can get I am out of the discussions regarding Syria I am out of the
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discussions regarding the key issues that are taking place in the region I am almost out of discussions on Yemen as well because Yemen now I my allies are not necessarily happy with me let
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me use this process to approach normalization again in exchange for the three things I saw desperately need which are a NATO style security agreement against the Iranians in case the H hit
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again support for vision 2030 the line now is only going to be 12 km long Vision 2030 is not
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doing well economically or financially despite all the parties and the like Saudi employment is not increasing because Saudis don't want to do the work of the bengalis the pakistanis and
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the Egyptians and the algerians that they bring and he also wants access to nuclear technology
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and therefore Saudi Arabia is saying if there's going to be a ceasefire I need to have some sort of stake in it so let me propose the normalization idea again in exchange for those three things and
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say that I'm doing it in exchange for a ceasefire with regards to itself they are the ones offering
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Donald Trump this particular issue itself but I think it comes from a sense of desperation not necessarily from a sense of I genuinely care about what's happening in the final point that is worth
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noting is that Israeli pundits on their TVs there was a clip that went quite viral which is of an
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Israeli analyst saying I think on channel 12 or the like where he said that the if you compare
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Al jaaz and Alia Alia being the Saudi Channel he says is very refreshing to listen it's it's
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it's basically it it brings all of our narratives and it broadcasts it as well the idea being that
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bin Salman's position on Gaza Remains the Same which is if the Israelis are attacking Muslim
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Brotherhood ham go for it if they're attacking Iranian proxies go for it but if you're going
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to stop give me some credit to in that I managed to bring and I think bin Salman is flip flapping in that regard and the point worth noting here is if you notice in Damascus a katari delegation went
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to Damascus Turkish delegation went to Damascus Jordanian delegation went to Damascus Lebanese
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delegation went to Damascus ABD abdah from the UAE reported that a UAE Ambassador also went and met
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Ahmed and went to meet with the Syrian government there is no sign of a Saudi delegation or picture
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that it's gone to Damascus and even the reports that it's gone because some sis are saying that they've already gone the question also lies in why did they not broadcast it why did they not show
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pictures of it why didn't and I think that reflects that the Saudis are not sure how to respond to talk of a ceasefire to the events in Syria to the ramifications on Yemen and
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that's why they're going to what their original position was which is that guys we've always been technically on peace we want to see fing Gaza here are our conditions America give us the the
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whatever and we'll discard the Palestinian State and it may well be and this is what the Saudis
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are gambling on that Netanyahu will be very upset that Trump is going to force him in a ceasefire if the rumors are true he would be very upset but Trump will use that normalization with Saudi
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Arabia to say to Netanyahu you've come out of this you've come out of this elevated and with dignity
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because not only did you demolish razza not only did you destroy Syria's military capabilities not only did you demolish hisbah but Saudi even came and gave normalization and I think it's a very
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powerful narrative even if I don't agree with it I think enough Muslims will buy into a false
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narrative that Saudi brought about peace because it normalized and and I think that Netanyahu might
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accept this PR exit if the Saudis offer it having said that Netanyahu himself and we can
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talk about this later on is uncomfortable what's happening in Syria he he trusted the Syrian Army
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to do nothing under ID he's not comfortable with this new government over and that might affect whether he actually agrees to this PR exit or not that's that's really interesting a few strands I
Hezbollah peace deal
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want to pick up on from what you've said there let's pick up on the a small point you raised there but I think it's an important uh point that requires some more clarification and that is uh
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the Hezbollah peace deal so-called ceasefire deal with the Israelis um from where I'm sitting it's a
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fairly humiliating deal for from From hezbollah's perspective I mean the the Iranian Hezbollah
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narrative has always been that they were winning they're in the ascendancy and the Israelis were on the back foot yet the ceasefire Clauses seem to imply that Israel got the upper hand there and
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Israel is still striking parts of South Lebanon and still encroaching on on uh Lebanese territory
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in fact they remain in Lebanese on Lebanese territory like why did Hezbollah sign such a
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what seems like such a humiliating agreement I would push back on the word humiliating and and I'll explain why I don't think there is any humiliation in standing up for Philistine I
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don't think there's any humiliation in using your limited means to do what the rest of the Muslim
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leaders failed to do which is to stand up for and stand up yeah there's one thing that we
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have to be absolutely blunt about H could have done what the UAE did he could have said Israel
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has every right to do what it wants to do in in in Gaza it's the Palestinians fault it's hamas's fault they went and did something that I didn't even agree with and therefore
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they should pay the price for it this was the UAE narrative they could have done like Saudi Arabia
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where B's channels and the like they brought on from H and they said to why on Earth did you do
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this you have wrecked Palestine you have wrecked Gaza you brought destruction on it and now you reap what you s they they could have said this they could have done like erdogan which is to
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say that I want to mediate between the two of them I don't want any problems here with the Israelis I don't want any issue and I want Hamas I need you out of ankar as quickly as possible just just get
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out of here they chose not to do so not out of a position of strength no one can argue that hassah
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believed himself to be militarily superior to the Israelis absolutely notah famously said in 2006 if I knew the destruction that would be wrought on Lebanon I would not have filed those missiles
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into Israel itself nevertheless hisbah decided to go get involved I'm not necessarily praising them
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I'm saying that this is different from humiliation the reason I'm necessarily praising them is I'm aware of what they did in Syria that's that for me that makes it a bit in but in any case as a
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result of's intervention the Israelis had to delay their ground offensive because they were not sure to what extent hasah would go and therefore they needed to test out to what extent heah drove at
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60,000 Israelis out of land that the Israelis had stolen leaving them in the north causing
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Netanyahu a huge humiliation Netanyahu tried to bomb them into silence and they kept going even
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though they destroyed sways of Southern Lebanon they've been unable to occupy much territory in terms of investment versus return their return is very low the only way they could actually Target
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hisbah was to go and kill so many Lebanese that even macron of France ended up turning against the
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Israelis he said this is ridiculous because maon considers it a former Colony hezbollah's Antics
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against the Israelis also exposed their military deficiencies them the huthis and the Iranians when
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the Iranians fired those missiles even though I believe it was orchestrated I believe it was more theater I believe the Iranians made sure that the drones went silvery so Israel destroy them only
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25% of those missile were intercepted by the Iron Dome 75% were intercepted by US battleships French
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support Saudi intelligence and Jordanian missiles in other words isra they expose that Israel is not
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actually as strong as people think it is without the US Israel cannot stand all of these are things
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that are to that that don't necessarily suggest that hisbah did nothing I think what happened
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was was that the Iranian failure to respond effectively to the Israelis when they attack
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the Israelis perceived Iran to be bigger than it actually was IR the Israelis truly believed that
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Iran would respond in much heavier fashion but when Iran responded very meekly to the
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assassination of is that took place in tan itself and the like Israel suddenly felt hang on these
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guys are bluffing wait a minute why don't I actually go after Lebanon and just bomb the
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living daylight side because I'm not gain any success in Gazza Gaz have been bombing it for how many months is there any settlement in Gazza today after 12 months none they they're unable to
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establish a settlement they're unable to establish any real control Israeli soldiers are still being
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ambushed again this is all analysis it's not about whether you're for or against Israeli soldiers still being ambushed and people are still asking what's the reward for Gaza as a
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result net tried to go west bank but according to Times of Israel and according to some of the other Israeli press Trump has said that annexation of the West Bank is off the table so we had to go to
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Lebanon and even in Lebanon when you think about it a victory in netanyahu's eyes would have been
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the seizure of territory in Lebanon and the utter decimation of hisbah so while hisbah
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were forced into a ceasefire because of Israeli demolition I wouldn't call it humiliating I would
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call it a sense of both parties realized they can't actually win here and they came to an
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agreement that neither likes Israel doesn't like the agreement because in reality it didn't achieve
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its objectives of occupying more land in Lebanon and hisbah doesn't like the agreement because it had to agree to terms to allow Israel to bomb inside beu but the agreement itself when you
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think about it why did Netanyahu sign it if he was in the ascendancy militarily what made Netanyahu
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agree to that ceasefire if he's in the military if he's ascendency in military is because Netanyahu
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does not trust his capabilities to continue in that war with hisbah that doesn't mean hisbah is
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strong that doesn't mean hisbah is this powerful force it doesn't mean Netanyahu is strong it means
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hisbah did enough to frustrate Netanyahu into a ceasefire and while hisbah is forced to take
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damage and terms it doesn't like so is Netanyahu is that called a victory I don't know is that
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called a defeat I don't think so is that called humiliation I don't think so is it beneficial for
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the Palestinians I don't know does it mean that hisbah deserves some credit I'm not sure what
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I'm saying is that I think that in our emotive approach to Deep scars in our communities yes
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in which a lot of sectarian violence was committed particularly byah against the syrians I think many
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have the approach and I will understand it in that hisbah versus Israel Iran versus Israel was a case
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of Allah not making a situation of good versus evil but that Allah hit a tyrant with a tyrant
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and I think many of you in Syria in that one Tyrant was weakened Netanyahu the other Tyrant
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was weakened hisbah in Iran therefore Israel was forced into a cease fight it did not want while
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hisbah was weakened sufficiently for essid to fall because it was the only reason ID was still standing Iran was weakened enough for ID to fall and Allah weaken both tyrants which allowed change
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to take place such as that in Syria make of that what you will but I do think that the ceas fire is
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not definitive I think that there's more to take place at this moment in time and the final point
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to mention is this if it was as much of a victory for the Israelis as the Israelis claim and as much
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of a humiliation as the detractors of hisbah claim I think that us would have found it much easier
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to form a government in Beirut remember they assigned an Envoy to go and make a new government
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in Lebanon that would ask hisbah because the ruling government is the mar an alliance between ironically the Christian marites and Shah they formed the government in order to push the
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block out the Americans when they went in to try to form a government they went to the Christians they went to these others and they said we wantah out and we want a new government where hisbah have
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no influence there's no new government in Lebanon which means the Americans fail to convince the
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Christians to abandon hisbah the Americans failed to find an alternative government the Americans
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failed to get hisbah politically kicked out of the Lebanese government meaning that for all of the talk of the victory Americans are unable to capitalize macron is unable to capitalize netan is
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unable to capitalize andah is unable to capitalize and that's why I think it's more of a stalemate
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than a victory for either side it's a ceasefire that nobody likes and therefore I don't think it's about Victory or humiliation I think hisbah did what they could with their own intentions I
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think there is a sincerity in their defense of festine what I disagree with and and what I get
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in a lot of trouble for is I believe that their vision for Palestine or Liberation for Palestine is that the expense of millions and millions of Muslims who they believe can be legitimately
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killed so that they can go and liberate Palestine whereas my argument is that the population should
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be liberated and free in order to allow Palestine to go forward and that includes Sunni Shia unity and the like and that's why when I call on the Shia I always say to them I'm not saying that
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that it's sectarian rhetoric I'm saying that the Shia militias killed sunnis in the name of
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Al Hussein please stop doing that so that we can get together and then go towards festine itself
Netanyahu’s aims
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all right just that's that's a really good clarification um Samy so let's then talk about Netanyahu over his past year uh he said off um uh with a series of strategic aims and
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objectives I mean how far has Israel achieved what I set out to achieve over this past year I don't
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think Netanyahu had a set of aims and objectives I think Netanyahu was so stunned by what happened on October 7th that he lashed out without thinking and essentially thought to himself let me bomb The
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Living Daylights out of until I figure out what the Strategic aims and objectives should be right
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Netanyahu marketed himself as Mr security nothing happens under my watch I have the Palestinians so
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suffocated I have them so firmly in an iron prison that is called Gazza that there is no way they can
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do anything I have eyes everywhere I I am in charge of security of over 80% of the Westbank
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nothing can happen under my watch and when October 7 happened at the scale at which it happened that
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surprised everybody probably including Hamas itself I think that Netanyahu lashed out and thought hang on a second this is a disaster this is the first time Palestinians penetrate greater
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Israel or Israel proper as as as they as they refer to it and this is the first time they've done so since 1948 and even if they are defeated the fact that they managed to take me by surprise
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might encourage other movements to do the same in future because suddenly now I look weak moreover when's missiles and H missiles are penetrating T Aviv my Iron Dome doesn't work anymore suddenly
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I'm no longer the Invincible Army and I need to kill in order to do the Invincible Army John MIM
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has a very good theory about this he says that the Israel policy essentially is that the more I kill the higher price I make the Palestinians pay the more hesitant they will be to resist me
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in future and I think that was netanyahu's policy let me bomb Palestine into Oblivion so that the
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next time they even think about revolting against me or trying to take land back they themselves
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in their own Community will say don't do it don't do it because the last time we did it look what happened to us let's just accept the occupation it's the same tactic that the French deployed in
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1945 in Algeria when a group of algerians protested in GMA karata and St after 1945
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when the French were liberated from Nazi Germany when the algerians came out and the French were so horrified that an occupied people wanted Freedom that they proceeded to Massacre more than 50,000
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in one week and the aim of the French in their own document stated that the reason we wanted
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to do maximum damage including the slaughter of women and children the reason we had to do
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it was we wanted to impose on the Algerian psyche that the desire for Freedom comes at such a high
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price it's not worth it if you dare to ask freedom from us we will Slaughter not only 50,000 one week
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we can do much more this was netanyahu's tactic the problem for netan however is in the pursuit
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of this tactic he ended up making Israel a Paras State because the more he killed the more his own
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allies started turning on him I don't know if you saw that Candace Owens interview last week with P Morgan where she says she says to PE PE you know my career I was on the Zionist team for most of
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my career until I saw the reality of what Israel was doing they went so far they alienated even
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Candace Owens they went so far they alienated taka Carlson who's now under heavy slack for
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interviewing Jeffrey sax because Jeffrey sax came out and said that our foreign policy is governed by the Israelis it's not an American foreign policy he's the Israel went so far Netanyahu
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went so far there's allies are turning against him now the more he turns against him netanyahu's conclusion is they're turning against me because they don't believe I can finish the job so he UPS
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the anti to try to finish the job but it only turns more people against him icj starts ruling
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that the Israel must stand TR for genocide IC they threaten kareim Khan with sexual harassment
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cases they and still he went forward and went for the ICC arrest warrant they saying we're going to close the embassy in Ireland and now Ireland are saying we'll turn into a Palestinian museum
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netan is like I don't get it I'm bombarding these Palestinians I'm destroying them and I'm finding
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myself increasingly isolated there a Polish media is reporting that Netanyahu is not going to the
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aitz memorial because he's worried that he'll be arrested with ICC netan cannot fathom a world in
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which he kills and is being held to account for it he's confused by it why is the world turning
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against me why am I not treating my strategic objectives which is why he bombs even more and this is where the Mantra comes in that even though the casualty toll amongst the Palestinians is
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astronomically tragic it is Israel that is losing and Palestine that is winning because options are
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now available to the Palestinians diplomatically and politically that were not available before
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as a result of netanyahu's outrage and the proof that Netanyahu has no strategy is that Netanyahu
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bumbed Gaza into Oblivion didn't take any land so he decided to go to the West Bank and he got
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tapped on the hand and Biden told him hey the Saudis are saying that they need some sort of PR for normalization they need a Palestinian state which is the West Bank even though you R 80% don't
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touch the West Bank so netanel goes north to Lebanon he's forced into a ceasefire agreement with hisbah then Syria happens he okay let me go and try and take Syria instead he goes towards
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Syria and finds erdogan quickly establishing air bases and military bases because erdogan can't do
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anything against the Israelis with turkey alone but historically now he has Syria in his hands as well and potentially Egypt now panicking King CeCe panicking in Egypt himself if Eran completes
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that crin and adds Libya to it with s Libya too Eran is not B bin Salan erdogan is not telling
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the Israelis I want good ties erdogan is very clearly making it clear to the Israelis privately you ask any Israeli we know that erdogan gives us sweet words in private but in his heart he dreams
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of conquering Jerusalem they don't say about bin Salman or bin Z so the point is Netanyahu realizes oh my goodness as said fell Israel's plan in Syria Netanyahu was that if ID regime is there
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and the reports now show it from the documents that they captured in Damascus ID was telling the Israelis I'll cut my ties with the Iranians he was giving them Iranian positions he was giv them
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the positions of the Iranian militias for Israel to bomb Assad Syria under assid was an impotent
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Syria but Syria liberated is now a threat so now Netanyahu before was only dealing with Gaza then
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he found himself dealing with Lebanon now he's got a deal with Syria and he's got a deal with a Donald Trump who actually listens to erdogan Biden only listen listen to Netanyahu Nikki Haley in the
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interview I don't know if you saw it she was she was in interview and they said and she said that we the government the Republican government need to listen to erdogan on Syria we should be dealing
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more with erdogan our partner you have the qataris now talking to Donald Trump trump is not Biden Biden is ideologically Zionist Trump is just the guy who cares about his own PR he's even appointed
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the producer of apprentice to his cabinet the point that I'm saying is for Netanyahu the more
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he bombs the more he finds himself in a disaster the more he finds himself in a problem so when you ask about netan strategic objectives he didn't have one in the beginning he was stunned and taken
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by surprise and he still doesn't have one now and he believes the more Palestinians he kills he might Force the Palestinians into surrender and here is the Crux of the issue and this is
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the point that I finish on here is the Crux of the issue the Palestinians aren't surrendering
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they're not in fact people are even talking about talking muhm Abbas and the Palestinian Authority the Palestinians aren't surrendering and to be honest it reminds you very much I don't know
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if you ever seen the film the line of the desert about Omar in this in you actually haven't seen I was actually talking to the to the audience the Libyan hair has just gone like Muhammad honestly
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I believe that and the message are essential viewing for any child growing up and and as soon as you leave here you have to watch it so he knows he's eventually going to get executed andap
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and captured by the Italians yes so grani tells him I want to understand they've done the scene
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wonderfully in the movie but it's it's authentic it's the actual dialogue I want to understand you
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have such weak resources you didn't have much why did you fight us and bring your country to ruin he
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said it was sufficient for us that we fought you it was sufficient for us that we fought you graan
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is still confused so he says to how do you feel now that I've captured you he said what does it matter we either win or we die and we go back to Allah subhana wa tala but you kill me today and
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you will fight the Next Generation and you will fight the Next Generation and each generation will fight you until Liberation because it's your occupation that brings the ruin to my nation
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not my resistance to it it's such a powerful scene I don't do it justice when I say it it's
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such a powerful scene that we grew up with and in the book Muhammad he means andar tells him
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that we're just waiting for the time in which we get captured Omar never gave up he said I'll keep fight fighting is enough these Palestinians are not surrendering they're not giving up that's why
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it was fascinating there is a I think her name is Ria Mas she went one to a Arab Con in in the US
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and she's asking a Palestinian on stage who was Pro Harris and she said I don't understand the Palestinians are refusing to accept the crumbs why are you the Palestinians are refusing to why the
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Palestinians are refusing to back down they're not surrendering I don't know if you've ever hosted manour Schuman I recommend you to host him see how he speaks as a pal he was in Gaza from November
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to March see how he speaks he speaks like we're not surrendering we know that Allah is with us
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we know that whatever price we have to pay we pay for it the pales and this is netanyahu's greatest
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problem why are they not surrendering why are they not giving up why do they keep going why are the
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Palestinians so relentless why are they suing us everywhere why is Mark regi being dragged in the Australian courts why they making the Australian government buckle and reject two IDF soldiers
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from entering Australia why did they Topo Harris why are they now going across Europe and turning Europe against me why have they made Poland off limits why have they suddenly you mean why do
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these Palestinians not give up why is it that when Assad Falls these Palestinians celebrate with the
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syrians too and they see it as one component you had Mahin Khan talking about last time how Islam
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unites the Muslim from Morocco all the way to Indonesia Jakarta and Beyond Netanyahu is baffled and confused because he thinks strategic objective is in the demolition of the weapons but when he
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looks through history America bombed the living deas out Vietnam the Viet Kong still kicked out
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the Americans the French bomb the living Delight out of the algerians the algerians still kick them out the Italians executed the the the legend the legend that you must watch this movie line
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of the desert may Allah bless Mustafa the one who made the movie and brought these stories to life so we could visualize it he they killedar M they colonized Libya they made the libyans so it made
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it so difficult for them to resist they still kicked the Italians out despite never being militarily Superior and Netanyahu is repeating that cycle of history but because Palestinians
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know the history they continue to hold firm and they keep going got killed soul of my soul was
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asked by I was at the convention was asked by what advice do you have for he goes hold steadfast to
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Allah Allah is with us we there were pictures of him remember he lost his granddaughter he lost kids he lost he would go to families with have bereaved and tell them they are with Allah they
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are alive don't say they are dead they are alive don't say they are dead and this is why when you read the film The me when you watch the film The Message a wonderful scene again accurate dialogue
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where Abu sufyan and a defeat Abu sufyan and goes and he shouts at the sah and the prophet and says
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to them you know you know like our dead for your dead and the prophet says Reply to them and they
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go you're dead sorry our dead are in Paradise are your dead are in Hellfire it's not the same yeah
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the thief is not the same as the righteous person who has the title to the land and that's the point
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about n strategic objectives he had none he can't find one he can't achieve one because
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this um doesn't die and it keeps going and this particular fin I promise this is the final point on this particular issue in and of itself the sense of deflation that somebody might feel in
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the activism for Palestine yes is not a reflection of how the umah feels right Palestinians are not
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feeling deflated they keep going the syrians didn't feel deflated they kept going Muslims
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around the world Muhammad Jal do doesn't feel deflated he keeps going ASA doesn't feel deflated she keeps going M doesn't feel deflated he keeps going people around the world keep going if you
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feel deflated that's on you that's not on the um that's on you to ask yourself that what can I be
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doing more but the reason why Nel can't achieve a strategic objective the reason why bin Salman
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is now panicking and sending oil to Syria when he wanted to topple the Syrian Revolution and wanted to keep essid in power the reason the U are scrambling to invest money in Civil Society
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to call for a democracy it doesn't allow in its own country to prevent religious groups in the words of the UAE ambassador from taking any power is because people are always stronger
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than governments people are always stronger than the armies and Netanyahu is realizing that you
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can kill thousands of Palestinians you can't kill Palestine you can Slaughter thousands of Palestinians kids you can't kill Palestine you can Massacre their mothers and their men and kill all
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of them and leave their copses on the street for the cats to eat their souls go to Allah and they are alive with Allah just as remains alive but you can't kill it and that's why I actually argue that
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if you read history if you read what happened in the last 100 years Netanyahu is actually panicking
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he's not speaking from position of strength because just as the French kept asking why do the algerians keep resisting just as the British kept asking why do Egyptians and the Indians keep
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resisting netan is asking the same question why do the Palestinians keep resisting and let's be
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brutally honest Jal bring out a map on your tablet and identify where has Israel gained
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or expanded you will be very hardpressed to find any place where it has truly expanded and put
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that into context the world's most modern Army backed by the superpower could not defeat a rag
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tag group of Palestinians because the team that has Allah is superior to the team with the f-16s
Metaphysical and Politics
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Samy I I listen to you and uh Subhan Allah you sound extremely optimistic about the situation
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uh is your optimism base built on the political reality was it built on a more metaphysical sort
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of understanding of of Allah subhana tala and sort of the greater uh long Dury of of of of Islamic
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Victory because of course we We Believe from an Imam perspective that Allah ultimately will reward the Believers and will make the Believers Victorious uh the reason why I asked this question
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is that in this last few weeks over the last few weeks I've come across lots of Muslims who've given up the fight you know they they they were really strong at the very beginning and uh they
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did a lot of effort alhamdulillah for Palestine and for Gaza they've sort of given up and they see
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the constant scenes of tents on fire in in Gaza and they feel a sense of of deflation and weakness
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and um not only that by the way we've come across you know we've we've had a series of uh so-called
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you know left-wing Fighters for Palestine who over the last few weeks maybe because of Syria
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as a backdrop they're sort of given up on the Arabs you saw that from George Galloway you know we've given up on the Arabs Israel has won the greater Israel project is now Supreme so it it
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just seems to me that um there's a combination of of of people there who who have given up and they
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sense the same political reality you're sensing who's right the first thing that I'll push back
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on I never separate the metaphysical from the politics ever right Allah subhana is the one who says in the Quran that he gives Victory to whom he wills and he inflicts defeat on whom he Wills
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on the day of H your numbers pleased you when you were Superior in numbers and Allah made them
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almost defeated until they remembered that it's not our numbers that make us strong it is Allah who delivers the victory restore the intention and move forward and Allah gave him the victory I
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don't separate between the two bad was one because Allah gave them the strength to win in bad when
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300 faced 1,000 the politics was Muslims versus qur the metaphysical helped them to win as well
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I believe in that wholeheartedly I don't separate between the two and I believe me I truly believe there is a problem with the Muslim who separates between the two the second reason worth noting is
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I I I understand your question so let's look at it politically yeah what was Israel's preferred
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situation in Gaza it is annexation settlements ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and kicking them
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all off into Egypt have any one of these four been achieved what prevented any of those fall
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from being achieved the Palestinians yeah did they have any material superior to the Israelis they
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did not do they have sufficient power to prevent the fall they clearly demonstrated that they have
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sufficient power to present the four is there anything I've said there that is not political all of that is political that's the analysis what do they want to Annex it West Bank does Net not
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dream day and night of annexing the West Bank why can he not Annex the West Bank what makes it difficult for him to Annex the West Bank what is the power that prevents him from annexing the West
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Bank is it because he's generous and says I'll leave it for another day is it because he's kind and says I want to leave it for the Palestinians what prevents him from doing so it is a political
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calculation and assessment in which he cannot do so because there is a political obstacle in the
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path that is the Palestinians a mighty powerful people who it's not easy to defeat them because
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they don't take things lying down ala does Israeli is their dream to see muslims praying ala or
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destroying ala and building the Temple Mount give me a political explanation why they have not been able to do so thus far is it because Netanyahu is generous and believes in pluralism and believes
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in diversity and believes that ala should stay because these M Muslims we took their land they
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should be allowed to pray in ALA no it's not he has been trying to demolish and demolish the areas
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around Thea in order to be able to undermine the Temple mount in undermined Al AA why has
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he been unable to do so it's because there is an obstacle in his way what obstacle stand in his
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stands in his way Muhammad Jal it is the Muslims who visit ala it is the Palestinians who stay in
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ALA it is the Palestinians who who refuseed to sell their homes to the UAE who were handing those homes subsequently to the Israelis it is the Palestinians who stand in their way there is power
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in those Palestinians that prevents Netanyahu from having his way let's go more broader because I
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know people don't like the idea of ordinary power I was watching The Hobbit yesterday with my kids me and my wife she said want to watch The Hobbit and subh there is a scene with uh Who's That Lady
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of the Lake uh G I can't remember her name she's talking to Gandalf and she says to Gandalf why
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The Hobbit why have you included somebody who is objectively powerless is not a warrior not
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a wise man not nothing why have you include him with Thoren son of thin why have you included him with these other dos who used to power and Gandalf says I don't know but San believes that only great
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power can keep great power in check but I have found this is not the case I have found that it
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is the ordinary everyday act of kindness of Love ordinary Act of holding up what is right done by
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the ordinary people that keeps the Darkness at Bay it is the ordinary Palestinians not great
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power of Saia that abandon the Palestinians not great power of UAE that abandon the Palestinians
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it is the ordinary power of the Palestinians that keeps the great power of Netanyahu at Bay that keeps the great power of the Israelis away from Al AKA is there anything here that I've said that
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is politically inaccurate or is Netanyahu more generous than we assume look more broadly forget Palestine itself and forgive me for pressing this answer on you just a little bit you look at Syria
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for example Netanyahu when did Assad ever attack the Israelis in fact Assad attacked Palestinians
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in Lebanon and essid detained Palestinians in Syria and under esset the Syrian Army posed no
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threat to the Israelis nor did it make an attempt to attack the Golden Heights when did Israel attack Syria seriously and go to take military installations when ID was gone
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because the guy we relied on to make sure the Army was impotent is gone we don't trust a free
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Syria to use the Army in a way that essid did we need to wipe out their military installations to
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make them impotent what Israel wanted in Syria was they wanted a Northeastern Kurdish area they
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wanted a southern pro-iran area and they wanted Damascus limited under UAE tutelage they wanted
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Damascus limit on UAE paralyzed and unable they wanted Syria split into three now Syria looks like it could actually be United yeah now under Trump under Biden impossible under Trump trump
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doesn't give a damn about these Kurdish forces in the Northeast these Marxist leftist Kurds who have been oppressing their own Kurdish Muslim Kurdish population in well be Trump says I'm not
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interested in them erdogan go in and you know and and do your thing Israel when when it when it looks towards Syria it's not comfortable at all Muhammad bin Salman doesn't want to normalize with
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the Israelis because he likes the Israelis he's doing it because he wants something in return UAE is not normalizing with Israelis because it likes the Israelis it wants something in no one
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likes the Israelis in the region itself and you look more broadly as well internationally before
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you could never accuse Israel of ape regime you'd probably be arrested for it you couldn't accuse Israel of genocide met Metropolitan Police might knock on your home now you can't metropolit police
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says it's protected from the river to the sea is protected the court case that Manchester student
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who they revoked her visa coming from Canada because she said that we celebrated you know that the Palestinians are still alive after October 7th and the judge said under international law
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they have the right to resistance is Free Speech the court case ruled its Free Speech Israelis are panicking and that's why I argue that in reality when you look at it you say is this optimism from
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a metaphysical perspective what is Allah a fable is Allah a fairy tale does your not you does the
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question that you've probably other people are asking are you saying that I believe in fairy tales and fables which is why I'm optimistic that somehow the power of Allah is a fairy and
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a fable as if we don't believe his miracles can happen today is that what we're saying who knew Syria that ID would fall in the manner that he did everybody believed that essid was staying erdogan
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was inviting him to Anar to have negotiations the Saudis brought him to the Arab League u e were investing they were lobbying us to lift sanctions and and the like and Russia was you know happy
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with him and the whole shebang but the point that I'm saying is this the Muslim who is getting tired
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and believes that politically things aren't in their favor is illiterate in history for w and
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this has always been my gripe with those who say the umah is weak the umah has never been weak the
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caliphate fell Britain couldn't capitalize they were out of Egypt within 40 years the caliphate
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fell they couldn't capitalize the French were kicked out of Algeria in less than 40 years the
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caliphate fell the Italians couldn't capitalize they were kicked out of Libya if the be and end
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all ended with a caliphate why did the um not die with the caliphate and this is the point that I keep making with people you may believe that the politics looks bleak but Netanyahu doesn't
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believe the politics looks bleak when you look at Harris losing because of Gazza when you see Donald Trump thanking Muslim Americans when you see the world shifting away from the Israelis it
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is abundantly clear that politically speaking it's Israel that's on the back foot but the final point
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I'll make here is this the reason people feel deflated is because of the incessant videos and
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pictures of Palestinians being killed yes that truly break our hearts that truly when you see
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those pictures of those kids with their heads blown off when you see the images of the cats eating corpses on the street cuz Palestinians can't bury the bodies when you see now there
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aren't even enough garbage bags anymore to put the limbs in so people just leave them on the streets when you see that Israel is aren't even allowing basic medicine to enter to go through
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into Palestine it is heartbreaking to believe that the world has allowed this to happen it is true it
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is heartbreaking but it was equally heartbreaking for those who lived 132 years of occupation
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Algeria to see what the french did to them and have no power to drive the French out it was
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heartbreaking for Omar MTAR to see the end of his life him being hanged by graziani of the Italians
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but still have the belief they could kick the Italians out and he knew that he would be hanged and knew he would be captured but he kept going anyway it must have been heartbreaking
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for him to wish he had more power to drive the Italians but could only summon the power that he had at that particular time it must have been heartbreaking for the prophet Muhammad sallallah
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alaihi wasallam to watch Abu jandel and these others in quray who couldn't make it to Medina be persecuted for their faith and not be able to do anything it must have been heartbreaking
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for the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam to say to Abu jandel after the Treaty of
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I can't take you back with me today be patient be patient after just signed 10 years and is furious
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fous it must have been heartbreaking foram to say it must have been heartbreaking for him
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kicked out of bleeding from the like and saying to Allah Allah are you angry with me that you allow
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this to happen to me and if you're not angry with me then yeah Allah please accept my forgiveness I could not convince them and look at the attitude of the Prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam he
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doesn't give up even though he believes he doesn't have the power what does he do yeah Muhammad Jal and this is the point is the s a fairy tale and a fable to you that somehow you believe it like
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Lord of the Rings and The like or do you believe that it actually happened that in even in the absence of power he still moved sallallahu alaihi wasallam until the power became manifest and this
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is the point for those who feel deflated I don't think you're feeling deflated in the sense of nothing can be done because things are being done you are deflated at the pace that Allah
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has decreed this battle of justice and that's a dangerous sentiment that's a sentiment that
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unun felt and therefore abandoned his people and Allah punished him he was swallowed by the whale
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and only released when he acknowledged that not that he had made a mistake that he acknowledged
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he had been from the from the wrongdoers what's the what's the Dua that gets you and us out truly when I abandoned the cause because I felt deflated when I abandoned it because things
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weren't coming at the pace that I want when I abandoned it because the outcomes weren't outcomes that I liked when I abandoned it because things seemed to get worse I abandoned the cause
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truly I was from the and when Allah releases yunas and here is the thing that I fear the
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most for all of us when yunas comes back does he go back and convince his people no he goes back
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and finds his people guided he finds the victory already delivered he was just impatient Allah
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had already decreed it and he decided to walk away from it so for those who feel deflated the
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Palestinian cause is not affected by you giving up on it the Palestinian cause of justice is not
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affected because you sit down Allah is sufficient for them Allah is going to give them Victory but those who feel deflated the feeling when Victory comes and you realize that you set out because you
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couldn't see where Victory comes from is is worse than the feeling of heartbreak that you will feel today and this is the point that I finish on it's not the Palestinians that need you it is not Allah
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that needs the Muslims it is not Islam that needs Muslims it's Muslims that need Islam it's Muslims
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that need Allah for Allah chooses his vehicle as he wishes Allah subhana wa tala can change tomorrow the vehicle if you choose to stop doing thinking Muslim Jal and I love you you know and
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I've seen M your eyes but if you stop doing this today there's somebody else who's going to do it as well I'm not taking away from you I'm saying that it's not you that makes Islam great it's
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Islam that makes you great as long as you remember this Allah will always give you the moment you flip it Allah will humiliate you as he humiliated people before you and that's why I argue for those
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who are deflated don't stop now don't stop now just cu the battle is hard don't stop now just
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because the struggle is hard don't stop now just because you're feeling the Heartbreak get back up and keep moving because every story of justice is one of struggle and the reality is when people
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look back on the story of festine they will record everybody who supported it and the reality is that
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even if you're not alive to see it you will see it eventually and that's why I always love the story and I promise this the final story I know I push this this one a bit too long I I love the story
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of Dino in Bosnia when he was asked by these New Yorkers and and and they said to dino how do you
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reconcile Serbian slaughtered your family they slaughtered your relatives and no justice was
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delivered you were forced to live with them side by side again and America paralyzed your country into three Pres residencies how did you reconcile it and you all just went back to day today as if
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nothing happened he said well I imagine one day holding his cup he goes well I imagine one day in in J I'll ask Allah to show me the movie from start to finish I didn't think anything of it
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a New Yorker tells me afterwards Sam did you see that see what did you see the certainty with which he believes Allah's Victory is going to come did you see the certainty with which he's satisfied
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with Allah's Victory even if he doesn't see it and do you see the certainty with which Allah subhana T's decree will always be manifest regardless of the power that is on the other side and that's
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said when G came and said I've given up on the Arabs gal wasn't the one reinforcing the Arabs it
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was the cause of Palestine they gave him the honor of being somebody who could stand up for justice and that's why what I fear the most is not that Palestine would be destroyed festine will not be
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destroyed Allah has given the promise I believe in Allah you said metaphysical the question implied I know you didn't intend it this way the question implied I believe in a fable Palestine
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will be free I'm tired of this like metaphysical nonsense I'm not tired of Quran I'm not tired of Allah's promises I'm not tired of Allah's will I'm not tired of Allah's Pace yes maybe in my
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heart I think Allah sometimes I wish you could deliver it faster but I know your way is better
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sometimes you love something and it's evil for you I'm aware Allah has its way of doing things I'm not tired of that promise what I'm scared of the most is Allah will use a tongue other than
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mine that Allah will use somebody other than me that is the greatest humiliation that can befall
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anybody and the reality is that many non-muslims are entering Islam because of Palestine what makes
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you deflated and makes them inspired what makes you heartbroken and therefore resign yourself
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to sit on your couch but make Shan King not only become Muslim but travel the whole world talking for festine what makes you so heartbroken and despair and say there's no point and have this
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sense of Despair that is not from a Muslim have that sense of heartbreak but makes Megan rice not only become Muslim but dedicate a whole platform to festine what do they see in the Palestinians
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that Inspire them that you are unable to see why do you see something that makes you deflate they see something that makes them Embrace Allah subhana wa tala and have the honor that Allah uses
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them to go and deliver the message of Palestine to those who didn't even care about Palestine
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before Allah is always Supreme when you ask about optimism and this is I promise you since I finish on when you ask about optimism I'm not optimistic about what happens in the next year or the next 5
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years or the next 10 years I'm aware like my father my my mother is Algerian my father is
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Tunisian I know about the struggles my relatives fought in the mountains against the French my
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relatives fought with the muj of Muslims around the world they fought I know the stories I know
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the struggles that they went through I heard them I grew up with those stories none of them told me
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it was like buying candy from a shop none of them said it sorry none of them said it was like buying candy on a shop everybody said that it was a struggle it was hard and we never knew if we
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would win or not what I'm optimistic about is not what happens in the next 5 10 years I'm optimistic
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Allah is always present I'm optimistic nothing is outside his plan I'm optimistic in predestination
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I'm optimistic that every Tyrant will stand before Allah no one will escape Justice I am not
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cistica ta'ala and everyone who was wronged would be dragged on their faces in front of the
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Palestinians nanah will be dragged and everyone who committed genocide I am optimistic that Allah
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will bring them in front of hind then SED and say to sedra tell me my wonderful creation what
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did this person do to you and cindra she won't need to talk to Jalan she doesn't need to talk to you who are deflated she doesn't need to talk to me for validation
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she will talk to she will tell him I was in and this is what they did to me they blew my
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legs off Allah my um didn't come rushing for me they were deflated Allah my um got bored
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of the headlines they kept scrolling past Allah I knew I had only you do you remember
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the kid who said when I when I meet Allah I will tell him everything the Syrian kid when I meet Allah they will tell Allah everything Allah won't be like me and you were getting
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deflated Allah will deliver Justice he will drag them to Janam in Chains will say they will
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ask we will say say to Janam Are You full and Janam will say well is there more I have space
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for more I have space for all the oppressors I have space for all the wrongdoers I'm not
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optimistic about what happens in the dun I'm optimistic that everything goes to
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which is why watch the movie watch it which is why Omar says to graani what is death to
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us if we win we win if we if we die we go back to Allah subhana wa ta'ala for
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he talks about like it's a beautiful reunion with Allah subhana wa tala and that's why I caution the Muslim never talk of the metaphysical like it's something beneath you never talk of the
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metaphysical like it's something that's not a political consideration for the whole world believed essid was going to stay Allah toppled him the whole world believed that France was going to
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stay in Algeria algerians kicked them out the whole world believed that the world would stay
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colonized of an Empire where the sun doesn't set and that Empire doesn't exist anymore why doesn't
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exist Jalan because they plan an Allah plans and Allah truly is the best of planners Samy I'd like
Sisi
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to turn to Syria in Greater detail in a second but I want to just focus on Egypt and CCE now we know
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that uh the route to Jerusalem is through um is through Syria and uh Egypt and we know that was
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the route that Salah took when he captur Jerusalem um Syria is back in in in the righteous hands um
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uh when we think about the Pharaoh in Cairo he seems to be riding High I mean um he gave a press
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conference soon after the fall of Damascus and as you as you know in that press conference he talked about I mean unashamedly he talked about how his position was was very strong and the Egyptian
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people loved him and uh he had never shed blood like us had had which is of course a fabrication
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but it just seems to me that we don't even hear murmur in Egypt as we're hearing in other places
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in the Muslim world I mean tell me about uh Egypt over this past year I mean it's played a central
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role it's a pillar of Israel's genericide yet it remains pretty strong or at least seemingly strong
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uh when it comes to uh when it comes to CIA and his position yeah as soon as essid fell in Syria
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as said uh CC gathered the a meeting of all the military intelligence and Military brass and had
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a meeting to have an emergency meeting to discuss right I don't think they were discussing Syria
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because they cared about Syria I think they were discussing that a movement has just toppled Assad
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Ed has fallen syrians are free and Egypt might take a lesson from Syria and start again how can
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we prevent Egyptians from doing so right in that meeting is an admission that they don't believe
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their iron grip to be as iron as we assume their iron group to be in that meeting is an admission
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that where we see something that is impenetrable they believe it is very easily penetrable essid
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was perceived to be the mighty State and it fell like a spiders web and I think that meeting was
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an acknowledgement that Egypt might be the same the second Point worth noting is that in Egypt in in Cece's press conference he said I haven't got blood on my hands nor did I steal money who is
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he responding to he's responding to Egyptians who believe that Cece and ID are in the same category
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and therefore what happened to essad might happen to Cece and he's doing what muar did when bin Ali fell which is we are not Tunis I am not bin Ali I didn't do what bin Ali did those confessions
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or those statements indicate CeCe is uncomfortable otherwise why do the press conference did you see
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any other leader in the region come out and say we are not or any other leader loved by his people
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come out and say we're not Bashar did erdogan come out and say I'm not Bashar Assad or all the like
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he doesn't need to it's it's a given that he's not Bashar Assad did the tamim come out and say it for
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example he didn't come out other leaders in the region did Sultan of sulan did he come out and say
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I'm not Bashar Assad I haven't stolen money and and I don't have blood on my hands no one saw the need to do it except CCE and I think the very fact he did it betrays the fact that he believes that
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there is still an environment in Egypt that could explode in the way that Syria exploded and toled Bashar Al Assad yeah and that's why I always again you know metaphysical and the political I believe
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they are one and the same in that oppression inevitably brings a state to fall and brings it makes a dictator topple I truly believe this and I believe CeCe believed this too which is why
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he is concerned about this as well I don't know where necessarily that's going to come from I do think that one of the issues in Egypt is less that people unwilling to go against CCE and more that
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there is a sense of hopelessness in terms of that who can do a better job than CC where are you know
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you know didn't produce you know we delivered them to power and they didn't produce either you know where is this hope going to come from but I think and I think in Syria there was a sense that idlib
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eventually would be the point in which you know people march out and they topple Bashar Assad I think erdogan kept that alive but I do think that even if we cannot identify how CCE might fall
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I think it is sufficient to know that CCE certainly believes that he's not as solid
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in his position as he is and it's worth noting that I actually think that CeCe was rescued by
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Gaza in a very contradictory term before Gaza UAE and Saudi Arabia had started to cease
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funding CCE they felt he wasted all their money and they gave him billions tur Hamed one of the prominent Saudi commentators who's very pro binman pro government did a a threat
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that caused a diplomatic crisis with Egypt where he said we've given Egypt all this money and look how they wasted it and the reason they waste it is they keep giving it to the Army Egypt
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needs to learn how to move to more towards a Civ civil State and the Army needs to learn how to reduce its grip it caused a diplomatic crisis an article came out I think in Alam or one of these
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other papers and CC ordered the the article retracted in order to avoid a beef with Saudi Arabia he sent he said we need their money like what's wrong with you the Saudis in the UAE their
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withdrawal of money indicated that they wanted to see C struggled or they lost faith in him and the
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indication was that CC might be changed because if you can't produce the money or the goods then change him for another General when GZA happened and Muslims came out in protest in Jordan and the
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like UAE and Saudi panicked because they felt that CCE should be changed within our framework
1:00:45
but if he's changed because of res Revolution that's problematic for us so they started pumping money once more into CCE now that you have Syria which was toppled without Saudi UAE without that
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that that kind of interference and as said they couldn't rescue essad and neither could Iran neither could Russia I think CeCe is definitely concerned and that's why I think when it comes to
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Egypt just as we were surprised by Syria just as we were um was surprised by The Liberation
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movements that kicked out colonization just as the um was surprised by King fil's Oil Embargo and the
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impact it had just as the um was surprised by the Arab Spring when bin Ali was toppled by bu who
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burnt himself in my father's hometown of City bu I think Allah is full of surprises and and
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it could come from anywhere politically speaking CeCe is concerned CeCe does believe that he doesn't have the eye in grip that he thinks he does and I think that shows that our assessment
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not our I'm not I'm not interested in the assessment that you gave that the assessment that he's strong is a flawed assessment because even CeCe doesn't believe it um we don't talk enough
Sisi Palestine betrayal
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about CCE in Egypt I suppose on this program um and his collusion with the Israelis can you give
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us a summary of just where Egypt or CCE has been inis past year uh and and I suppose his betrayal
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if that's not a strong word uh when it comes to the Palestinians CC has kept the ra border closed
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for Palestinians to cross they have to pay about $5,000 $10,000 per person to pay to an Egyptian guard in order to be able to cross that particular border C has kept that border closed because he
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believes if he opens it the Palestinians will come into Sinai Peninsula they will set up tents they will set up Refugee tents and then from those tents they will fire Rockets into Israel if they
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fire Rockets into Israel Israel will invade the saai peninsula with the support of the Americans CCE will be unable to rign support from the UAE and Saudi Arabia he believes that UAE and
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Saudi will probably support Israel's attack on the Sinai Peninsula Arabia will take charge of the pr campaign UAE will come out and support the The Invasion as well they will publicly say we're
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against it while probably saying it doesn't bother us it's not a big deal at all and CC believes that in that particular instance he can't rely on the Egyptian Army because the Egyptian Army
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is designed to keep the Egyptians in a cage it's not designed to fight enemies so I think that CCE
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believes in this particular case I need to keep the ra border closed the issue that people have with CCE is if you're going to keep it closed at least allow uninterrupted Aid to go in even that
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uninterrupted Aid he has allowed the Israelis to dictate what can go in and what can't go out and he's refused to send any tanks to deliver Aid not to fight to deliver Aid even doing that he
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has refrained from doing so moreover Egypt CC has increased the amount of gas that he imports from
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the Israelis help their economy in that particular regard Because he believes that that gas is needed
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in order to keep prices at a state in which the Egyptians won't revolt against him he's relying
1:03:35
on the Israelis economically to keep the Egyptians in check and by extension benefiting the Israelis
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there is a there is a channel called scene TV they did a documentary with a Palestinian in Gaza and
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they document him during the genocide and how he flees and he goes to Egypt then he goes to South Africa afterwards and they basically told him to record his whole deal on the phone so they've done
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a wonderful documentary I think it's uh I'm hi I'm Ahmed I'm still alive something like that
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so there's a scene in it they they did this Premiere when I went to go in the they did a premere when I was in Doha so they show AED the Palestinian as he's crossing the border
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they tell him leave you'll be more beneficial to us abroad in documenting in in raising awareness for us you don't need to stay here just go so as he's crossing the border he's crying
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you know he's it's really hurts him to leave he goes I really don't want to leave my people when he goes to Egypt he arrives in Cairo and there's a heartbreaking scene in the documentary he's in
1:04:33
a mall and he's recording these Egyptians enjoying themselves you know in the C and he's like I don't believe it is being literally demolished a few miles away and here you never think that Palestine
1:04:43
is being demolished like every just going on on their daily lives as if nothing is happening it's a very heartbreaking scene in terms of what's Happening there's not to say Egyptian people
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have abandoned Palestine I have a friend of mine who we won't give details because they might get
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in trouble but when I asked why do Egyptians not mobilize they said Egyptians weak for the
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Palestinians but if they stop even for a second in terms of their work they won't have money for
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the dinner of the night the a lot of the Egyptian people are starved you know it's it's it's a very
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dis the disparity in wealth is very you know the taxi driver can stop and talk to you but that means that he can't have chicken for dinner for example and I think that's the Society of the
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Egypts in it's that people are in such a state whereby even if they wanted there's a the video that went viral if you remember of the Egyptian cab driver taking a Palestinian the Palestinian
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wants to pay an Egyptian guy goes La I won't take money from you and the person goes take it he goes lower and he starts crying he goes I can't believe that the best I can do for festine is not
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take your money he goes we failed you Palestinians W I won't take a dime from you and he weeps and he weeps and he weeps and I think that weeping is a reflection of the Egyptian people they are Weeping
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at they're like not only I remember a journalist said yeah festine we are sorry we also we are
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also colonized here in Egypt ourselves and that's why going back to your question when you said the liberation of Palestine comes to the liberation of Syria and Egypt Syria needed to be liberated
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from Bashar Al Assad Egypt needs to be liberated from CC it needs to be liberated from from from
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these entities that are averse that are designed to be against the people's will and that is the
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reason why I think the Americans scramble to go to Damascus because they want to know what are these people going to do because they are terrified that if Syria is truly free and the government
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represents the will of the Syrian People Israel is on a ticking time bomb in terms of what the
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Muslims will do to it and the Muslims wouldn't do it out of Revenge they would do it out of Justice to say that this is land that should go back to the Palestinians let's live harmoniously
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as we did before and the Israelis are firmly against that it's not that we don't talk enough about Egypt yeah it's that we don't talk enough about what kind of political direction is there
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for Egypt because it's very hard to identify but that doesn't mean that one can't emerge suddenly out of nowhere in the way that it did in Syria I mean if we were to compare very briefly um
Syria and Egypt
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the uh the state aerators in in Syria it that almost collapsed uh by the time the uh cities
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were liberated whereas in Egypt you know as we learned from the time of Muhammad M uh there is
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a deep State and that deep state is terrifically strong it's very strong and and of course uh it's
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propped up by the Army and the Army is propped up by the United States and its military budget
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um and so you know in many ways although on paper Syria looked very difficult of course
1:07:32
in with the benefit of hindsight which of course is meaningless but the benefit of hindsight we can see that you know there was a crumbling State whereas Egypt still has the strong institutional
1:07:44
operators that keep uh people like CCE in power do you see a tangible difference between Syria
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and Egypt there is one difference but we'll get to it I think one thing that's worth noting about EGP
1:07:56
it is not necessarily the Americans themselves who keep CC upright it is the manner in which the
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Army has constructed the state in that to succeed in anything in life you need to be a soldier you
1:08:10
need to be a soldier in the Army the soldiers of the army are composed of many from poorer families whose salaries only come from their child who is in the Army once they leave the Army because
1:08:20
they were in the Army their contacts in the Army get them the job the civilian job everything has to go through the Army in order to be able to get something so even if you're a poor family
1:08:30
that has no relation to America you can't find success unless you somehow go through the army
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or it's very difficult to do so unless you have ties with the Army itself and if that is your
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bread and butter that keeps you barely afloat it's very difficult to ask a poor man to go and
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Revolt and plunge himself into abject poverty for sake of a greater cause that they're not entirely
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sure will be able to be delivered I think that's part of the magnificence of the prophet in the way he convinces and abdah his other to give up everything for the sake of Islam but in any
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case I think that is one of the key factors that makes it difficult the difference with Syria is the Army was toppled you had groups that defeated the Army yeah groups that toppled the Army toppled
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the Deep State defeated the Army in enough places whereby the Army eventually just gave up also Ed
1:09:24
had alienated a lot of the army Chiefs there's a report that suggest that he lambasted them calling them Crooks and the like which meant that the Army also turned against them I think the difference
1:09:33
between the Arab Spring and Syria is in the Arab Spring it was a popular revolution but the Deep State managed to negotiate or compromise with the revolution in Syria he's basically taken over or
1:09:44
they the HTS and the likes have basically taken over the state military and they can reconstruct it in the manner in which they wish and I think that allows for greater maneuvering on the part
1:09:55
of the syrians than perhaps those Muhammad M and the Muslim Brotherhood had in Egypt and that's why
1:10:02
I argue that when you if you're comparing Egypt and Syria I think they are two very distinct circumstances I think that the manner of ID's downfall is different from mubarak's downfall
1:10:14
and that naturally lends itself to things that options that perhaps the Egyptians didn't have you you very kindly sort of chastised me earlier on when I when I tried to dealate the metaphysical
2025 Looking ahead
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from on the Practical and the political uh I want you in the final question just look ahead to 2025 with Allah's power in mind and Allah's ability to change any circumstance um what do
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you think 2025 would look like at least from a political perspective and uh what can we be
1:10:44
looking forward to and what other the challenges ahead I think that after Syria eyes will be on
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Libya yeah will something similar happen in Libya will it be decided I think that there will be a
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spk something that takes place I think eyes will be on Egypt I think that eyes will be on Donald
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Trump in terms of how he changes his policies that or changes Biden's policies in terms of what happened I think that Israel now becoming a pariah state will have its implications abroad I
1:11:10
think there are a lot of New Roads and channels that didn't exist before but I think the reason
1:11:16
for that is that Ordinary People moved in Syria they moved lawyers doctors Obama famous he said
1:11:23
the opposition are just dentists engineers these dentists engineers and the like took Damascus yes
1:11:29
these Ordinary People they moved in Syria Ordinary People they moved in America they punished Harris Ordinary People moved across Europe and they changed the whole narrative Ordinary People
1:11:38
moved and they shifted the debate amongst right- Wingers who are now questioning whether Israel is actually an ally or not Ordinary People moved and now they have changed the narrative and
1:11:46
changed the international institutions in a way in which they're starting to call on Israel and starting to start to hold them to account in terms of denouncing them for their genocide
1:11:54
and what's happening or orary people moved amnesty is now brave enough to call what Israel is doing a genocide Ordinary People moved in sufficient numbers and with sufficient voices and with
1:12:02
sufficient resources that now Human Rights Watch is calling it apartheid and genocide now you have medic on Frontier the The Doctors Without Borders also coming out and calling what Israel is doing
1:12:12
ethnic cleansing I think it's clear that the Palestinians now believe that they're Contin to struggle they're continuing to resist I think it's clear that bin Salman is uncertain and hesitant
1:12:20
about where the region is going UAE plots and plans but not all is going to plan they haven't taking Kum in Sudan they haven't been able to get ha to take Tripoli in Libya they haven't been able
1:12:30
to get Cece to feel comfortable CeCe is feeling concerned that there too I think that when you look at what's happening across the world there is an Awakening that is taking place an Awakening
1:12:39
that we thought was impossible I think that when we look at in terms of what's happening it's not just Trump who will dictate what happens next it's not just bin Salman it's not just erdogan it's not
1:12:49
just bed it's not just the the K or China or these other powers it's ordinary people people too it's
1:12:56
ordinary it's the people watching this podcast it's those who go on their streets and think they have ordinary jobs but don't realize that they power and their voices actually has impact that
1:13:05
their voice actually has power too and I think that with all of the things that have happened in the past year yes we've witness tragedies but we've also seen stories of Hope we've also
1:13:14
seen stories of change we've also seen stories that demonstrate that if we move we can actually
1:13:19
move and Allah can actually bless the efforts and Elevate those efforts too and I think more boldly
1:13:26
when you look at the way that mainstream media now is no longer the go-to source for news that now it is podcast now it is social media now it is these groups that are able to have a room in
1:13:35
which to advance their voice the capabilities of Da have been phenomenal now that we've seen
1:13:40
as Muslims that that dawa is more than just the spiritual dawa can be politics too where
1:13:46
you can get Owen Jones to come out and go and support the Palestinians and support the downfall
1:13:51
of Bashar alassad the dictatorial regime and insist that Justice should be Central to all of our discussions Candace Owens taka Carlson tan hessi coats and these others Elan Pape and
1:14:01
and and all these others when you and g m when you see all these people coming out Franchesca Albania and these others it demonstrates that da does have power and that's why I think Allah has
1:14:10
already written what's going to happen in the next year I'm not too worried about that Allah has written what will happen in five years the only thing that I am slightly concerned about
1:14:18
is can I keep the momentum up can I keep going as Seri can I keep going in terms of raising my
1:14:24
voice when I I feel like no one's listening can I keep protesting when I feel like it's not working can I keep boycotting I went with a few friends the other day one ordered a Coke on you when why
1:14:32
you ordering it for he said well the boycott is not really working you're like have some Faith Fe he ended up taking the coke bottle and putting it back and giving it back to the to the shop
1:14:41
and telling him listen I'm not buying the coke the point is can we keep boycotting can we keep advancing this can we keep going even when the outcome is not some is not coming at the pace
1:14:51
that we want that's what I'm more concerned about how can we keep the people m motivated and this
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is where I feel like the um always has the power to be great but I think that when we talk about
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motivation I think motivation doesn't come from me talking into a camera and saying be motivated
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motivation comes from the certain belief that Allah exists the certain belief that everything
1:15:14
is in his hands the certain belief that he knows what he's doing and the certain belief that he
1:15:20
always delivers and that's why I think that over the next year or the next 5 years what I would
1:15:26
encourage more than anything else is read the book now not as a spiritual book but read the stories of the prophets read the struggles that they went through and notice at the end of every
1:15:35
story how Allah delivers Victory and you will find that Allah subhana wa taala in the stories of the
1:15:40
prophets wasn't telling you fables or fairy tales nor was he telling you about angels He was telling
1:15:46
you about ordinary men about ordinary women people who made mistakes along the way but Allah subhana
1:15:52
wa tala forgave them guided them and gave them Victory too that even when you go on this journey
1:15:57
I give you an example when you read there's a story about M meeting with why does the story
1:16:03
come about because Ms says he's the wisest man and Allah says you're not so Allah tells Ms to go and
1:16:09
travel and M will know that he's arrived to the point when his fishes disappeared what does mam
1:16:15
say after he's traveled a great distance and exerted a great effort the Ayah says
1:16:26
indeed in this journey it has proven fruitless who told him to go Allah
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why did Allah tell him to go to find the wise man what did M this is why I love m
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m makes me feel better as a human being what did M say m went take out the food and take
1:16:43
out and then he is wait M who told this is the point what did Allah say to M did he say how
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dare you say that I sent you on a quest I brought you did how he didn't he Allah brought him and
1:17:02
delivers the lessons that we benefit from today Allah is a wonderful Lord Allah is a merciful Lord Allah doesn't mind that you feel deflated Allah doesn't mind if you lack motivation Allah
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doesn't mind if there are some days where you feel like doing nothing Allah doesn't mind what Allah Minds is if you choose based on that to do nothing Allah likes the ones who keep going the
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prophet sallallahu alaih wasallam got the from and mamam was receiving the from Allah subh through he
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knew J was he knew Allah was but still Allah tells us in the Quran that he and theah they
1:17:38
said they said when is the victory of Allah coming did Allah rebuke them for saying that
1:17:46
Allah instead said the victory of Allah is coming so I say to you or those who are listening when you say when is the victory of Allah coming the prophet said it too don't worry the prophet
1:17:55
said it too don't worry and I'm saying to you what Allah said to them you might be feeling where you say what's the point of all these protests
1:18:05
we call on people it's not making a difference we post on social media it's not making a difference that's fine say that because you're saying what said
1:18:25
I don't mind when Muslims say it I don't berate them for it they're just saying what said I've
1:18:30
called on my people day and night and the more I call on them the more I protest in London the more people run away from me and when I call on them so they might stop this genocide when I call on them
1:18:38
so you might forgive them Allah they put their fingers in their ears like P Morgan they cover their faces like GB news and they treat me with arrogance you're not saying anything different
1:18:48
than what Noam said when sham went to his people you might be saying the person said who am I I'm
1:18:54
not a billionaire I'm not somebody but what did they say to when he called on them they said we
1:19:00
don't see you as one of the nobility who are you to talk to us I get the feeling I don't berak them you're feeling like you're feel this is prophetic what you're feeling is prophetic what is
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not prophetic is when you choose to do nothing because of that feeling the prophetic is when
1:19:17
you feel it you tell yourself you read the Quran and you say oh the prophets felt that way oh you
1:19:24
yam got thrown in a well and sold into slavery and put into prison for many years it's like the Imran
1:19:31
Khan guys they say oh Imran Khan's in prison I said it might be a mercy if he was in power now during Gazza all the credit would have would have vanished because he probably wouldn't have
1:19:39
been able to do anything maybe Allah is treating him like YF leave him there where there can be no responsibility and then release him as back to the Premiership of Pakistan you don't know
1:19:50
but look at yfam and read the ending how Allah renders him read the Quran not like its fables
1:19:58
don't read it like and you want a spiritual boost don't read it like that read it like it's h read
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it like it's truth read it knowing it is truth read it with the certainty that it happened not
1:20:12
with the doubt that some is exaggerated read it like it is truth and you will find that these are
1:20:18
not stories that are in abstract they relate to you directly and as you read those stories in the
1:20:24
an you will find it's not Trump who makes the difference it's not these other leaders who make the difference it's you it's whether you choose to move whether you choose to strive and whether
1:20:35
you believe Allah subhana wa tala's promise the promise that he gave is worth striving for even
1:20:42
if you don't see it in your lifetime and that's the beauty of Islam in that Islam did not put the
1:20:48
responsibility of changing the world on my back Islam put the responsibility to try Islam did
1:20:53
not tell me that you have to liberate festine to enter Jenna Islam said you must deploy the
1:20:59
powers I gave you to try and even if you don't do so oh beautiful soul because you tried I give you
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jna alhamdulillah Allah did not put that burden on us alhamdulillah Allah did not tell us to do
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to do it alhamdulillah that Allah said to us keep striving and keep mobile and I will reward every
1:21:17
striving that you do so praise be to this merciful Lord I believe when we sit here the a is racking
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up I believe at night time when we tweet I say Allah this is all I can do but accept it from
1:21:28
me didn't the prophet say didn't Allah say those who do even an atom of Good Deed Allah sees it
1:21:35
then Allah say that then okay this is surely more than an atom when I tweet surely it's more than an
1:21:40
atom when I repost surely it's more than an atom when I protest surely it's more than an atom when
1:21:46
I go and protest if Allah the almighty has said to me that we see this act and we will make it
1:21:52
heavy on the scale the question for every Muslim is not why do I feel deflated the question is is
1:21:58
Allah's promise real enough to make me get up and move do I believe Allah's promise with certainty
1:22:05
that I get up heartbroken and I keep moving is Allah H or is Allah maybe and that's why I say
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that the greatest fear that I have in my heart is that sometimes we feel spiritually high but
1:22:19
the action reveals there's no spirituality there we feel like we are close to Allah when we feel
1:22:24
it but the reality to be close to Allah is in action because these prophets they went through those dark periods but they kept going and the reality is when you're going through a
1:22:32
tunnel you get to the middle of the tunnel where you can't see the other side you have to keep walking to go and see the light of the tunnel keep moving and keep walking the light
1:22:39
is there W it is there and one day we will sit with the Palestinians in Jenna and they will tell us wonderful stories when you enter Jenna you want to be the person to look at them and
1:22:48
tell them yes I raised my voice too for you yes I heard your call yes I moved I don't know if
1:22:54
what I did worked but alhamdulillah I'm here with you I want to tell you him I want to tell you Sid
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I never abandoned you I want to tell you H Sid I never sat at home and told people what's the point I want to tell you I did everything that I could even if it was a m tweet I did everything because
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I knew one day Allah would put us in Jenna and I wanted to be prepared that when I meet you in Jenna I wanted to tell you that when they blew your legs off you weren't alone I raised your
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voice for you I tried to move for you I used it B Allah had for you were never alone Sidra
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you were never alone you were never alone hind you were never alone the didn't abandon you we
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were with you we wish we had more Powers but we did what we could you were never alone we loved you though we never met you alhamdulillah Allah United us here in Jenna where I can tell
1:23:41
you yes it's an honor to sit with you and it's an honor and I know that Allah put me here because I tried for you alhamd you want to be that person you want to be that person if you feel deflated
1:23:51
sometimes I feel deflated some I'm heartbroken of what's happening in razza it's not that I'm optimistic in the sense of I don't care what's happening it's that I believe that those who
1:24:00
are watching this and those Ordinary People they can make the change and I am begging them to keep moving because I know Harris lost because of them and Israel couldn't save her I know that Israel
1:24:10
is becoming a pariah State and even America can't save it and I know it's because of these Ordinary
1:24:15
People and I finish with the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad sallah Al wasallam when Abu sufyan was narrating to him his meeting with hercus hercus says to him and I always repeat it some somebody
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said to me Sam you always repeat the same things Allah repeated the Quran over over 14400 years and it doesn't make it any less relevant hercus says to Abu sufyan who are the people supporting this
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Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam Abu sufyan says it is the lowest of our society and
1:24:40
heras says Abu sufyan if what you say is true this is the prophetic way read the Quran you realize
1:24:46
it's a prophetic way this is the prophetic way and if these Ordinary People are the ones moving for him then it is only a matter of time Abu sufyan before he takes takes Mecca from you
1:24:55
and takes Rome from me when you see Islam Today this beloved Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he felt heartbroken had died did he give up and stop conveying his message did he say
1:25:05
there's no point when he felt deflated 13 years being boycotted beaten his sahaba being beaten
1:25:10
because of a message of H of Justice did he turn around and say what's the point of doing anything why am I going to the Kaa every day trying to call people to Islam he didn't he didn't that's why
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read the S and you will realize this magnificent Prophet was also a human human being like you and
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the reason Allah gave us the S is not because to be a book of fables or a book only for the elite
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