Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
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Geopolitics & MidEast; Pro-Palestine, anti-Hamas; Proud American; Gaza native; Director @rfpalestine; Member @CFR_org; Senior Fellow @AtlanticCouncil
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![Hamas's evil dark lords still have the audacity & the gall to come out after refusing a ceasefire deal, starting a war, creating conditions to cause mass starvation in Gaza & getting tens of thousands killed to say, "Israel won't be on the map in 10 years" and that people will look back as say, "thank you to those who launched the al-Aqsa flood [Oct 7] attack because they wrote the first lines in Israel's annihilation." The problem isn't that this is delusional rhetoric, demonstrating the terror group's complete bankruptcy & psychosis-induced detachment from reality. Instead, it confirms that no amount of death, destruction, hunger, or suffering will ever cause the fascist entity in Gaza to stop the war it started and that no threshold of Palestinian suffering or casualties will make Hamas budge on its hardened negotiating positions, necessitating a shift in strategy by Israel, the US, the Palestinian Authority, the Arabs, and the international community.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1949303840106283263/amplify_video_thumb/1949301143122640896/img/hms7kSKyywpDnuMY.jpg)
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Disarming Gaza’s Clans / Khamulas (חמולה): Clan violence in Gaza has surged in recent weeks after several killings involving members of powerful families. Some accuse Hamas of playing a role, while others point to the flood of weapons controlled by these clans as the main driver of the breakdown in order. Another view is that Hamas may be trying to manufacture a degree of social chaos after agreeing to the disarmament proposal, hoping to create desperation among civilians and push them to demand Hamas’s return to governance and future security structures. Hamas once built its reputation on suppressing clan violence and curbing the lawless displays of firepower that these families routinely engaged in. Today, it may be trying to remind Gazans that only Hamas can impose that deterrence, especially since the Palestinian Authority failed to do so when it governed the Strip. The West Bank has also seen clan clashes, including a major confrontation in Hebron last month that involved heavy weapons and required Israeli military intervention. In one case, Israeli forces even acted as mediators between two families. This raises a serious question about the large stockpile of weapons in the West Bank if the Palestinian Authority collapses, including among security personnel who may lose their salaries once the Authority’s finances run out. One point must be unmistakable: every clan in Gaza must be disarmed and treated with the same suspicion as Hamas and other armed groups. If these unaccountable and violent families keep their arsenals, new jihadist or terror cells could emerge and challenge any future authority in Gaza or provoke clashes along the Israeli border. Gaza cannot achieve stability without the full removal of clan weapons, which pose a direct threat to Palestinians and Israelis alike. Most Israelis killed on October 7 were murdered with light and medium weapons, not advanced systems, which underscores the danger of leaving these arsenals inside Gaza or excluding them from disarmament plans.
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In a new interview, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan poses a grotesque question. He asks whether Israel will survive past its eightieth anniversary in 2028 or collapse under supposed military failures. He claims Israeli thinkers, citizens, and soldiers are “screaming” that they are being bled and cannot win decisively, and he frames this as proof that Hamas is marching toward victory. He then openly glorifies the martyrdom cult of his Islamist fascist organization, declaring that Hamas does not mind if women and children are killed so that others can “live in dignity.” Anyone can run the clip through translation software and see it for themselves. Then ask a few simple questions: Should these people ever govern Palestinians in Gaza? Ask the pro-resistance students, journalists, activists, leftists, and self-described pro-Palestine voices whether this value system can deliver freedom and prosperity for Palestinians? Who shattered the ceasefire on October 7 and carried out the single worst day of violence against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, triggering the worst catastrophe in modern Palestinian history? Hamas must be annihilated, destroyed, erased, and never allowed to rebrand or rehabilitate itself. It is astonishing that some policymakers are discussing letting the group run in Palestinian elections this November when every senior figure in this jihadist organization should be tried for crimes against humanity and barred permanently from political or administrative life. Gaza needs full de-Hamasification to eliminate any trace of an ideology that is immune to incentives, immune to reform, and lethal to Palestinian hopes for a future worth living.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib63,034 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
The Great Gaza Scam; Just Listen to Hamas: What you’re seeing in this video is the plain truth, even though it’s coming from slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. I was directly involved in one of the efforts he’s indirectly referring to. This is a confession from a jihadist organization responsible for immense harm, acknowledging that Gaza’s blockade & conditions were not because Israel was hell‑bent on blocking development. Israel became the lazy, convenient explanation & excuse for people unwilling to look beneath the surface and understand what actually happened in Gaza over the last twenty years. Here, the head of Hamas admits there were real offers on the table: an airport, a seaport, new industries, major cash infusions – opportunities dating back to 2014. Former Israeli officials like Shaul Mofaz floated plans to raise tens of billions for Gaza’s development, and large parts of Israel’s security establishment were open to letting Gaza grow and prosper. Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Western governments were prepared to invest serious money, far beyond just humanitarian aid. In 2015, I launched a multi‑year effort to build an internationally run, Israeli‑approved airport in al‑Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip. The proposal drew intrigue from senior Israeli officials, including Herzi Halevi and Avigdor Lieberman. In 2017, through intermediaries, I even appealed directly to Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s former chief and architect of October 7, urging him to consider the airport proposal and think strategically about Gaza’s future. So, what was the price that Israel and the world wanted in exchange for all of this? As Haniyeh states in this video, the price was Gaza’s disarmament and demilitarization so that it wouldn’t be dragged into endless, self‑destructive wars. Hamas was offered a dignified off‑ramp: integrating its employees and former fighters into civilian police, receiving salaries, and shifting toward nation‑building instead of terrorism. That offer was real, with a political pathway for the group. After October 7, and Gaza’s vast destruction, tens of thousands killed, and $ billions wasted, Hamas is forcibly entertaining disarmament and demilitarization. This video exposes the “resistance” cheerleaders who celebrated October 7 and the Westerners who insist Gaza could never have developed because of Israel. Listen to Hamas; whether you support them or think they are useful idiots, Gaza’s development was blocked because the terror Islamist group turned the territory into a fortress of violence, tunnels, rockets, smuggling, and radicalization. And no, Gaza and the West Bank are not comparable cases. Gaza had a genuine chance to become the crown jewel of the Palestinian people, a truly compelling model of prosperity and self‑rule. The pathway forward requires introspection, accountability, responsibility, and Palestinian agency.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib205,325 Aufrufe • vor 26 Tagen
I spoke with Jake Tapper 🦅 on CNN about Gaza and my new book, Hamas and Its Two Million Hostages, underscoring the troubling persistence of support for the terror group among activist & diaspora circles, even as Gazans increasingly reject Hamas’s fraudulent, discredited narratives.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib74,981 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen
Why is the Islamic Republic of Iran striking Burj al-Arab, hotels, an airport, seaports & civilian targets in Dubai, the UAE? The country has not participated in the war against Iran & didn't allow its airspace or soil to be used either. Cowardly, criminal, senseless aggression🇦🇪
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Another implicitly anti-Hamas protest in southern Gaza called for peace, a ceasefire & the release of hostages. I've said this repeatedly: polls are inaccurate; displaced/hungry/battered & frustrated Gazans are against Hamas but fear retribution & repression. This is significant.
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Hamas is looking for the bodies of Israeli hostages in Gaza by digging for tunnels that it placed under an entire residential city where there were thousands of apartments. This is under the Qatari-built Hamad City in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Hamas gave itself the right to use every inch of the Strip as a theater for its horrendous terrorism, placing its operatives and infrastructure under homes, hospitals, schools, and every imaginable space. This isn't just Israeli propaganda - this is the absolute, shitty, unpleasant, and brutal truth that all Gazans know and understand, but is somehow refuted by "activists" and "journalists" who run cover for Hamas. What you're looking at is the inevitable future of Gaza if Qatar is allowed to dominate the reconstruction process once again: tunnels will go through and under Qatari-sponsored infrastructure that becomes a breeding ground for Hamas's terrorism.
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WATCH--Gaza’s October 7 millionaires: a horrendous and nasty class of aid and money thieves, many of whom are associated with Hamas and terror, has emerged in Gaza throughout the two years of war. These individuals, who before the war barely had a dollar in their pockets, are now playing with Euros and Dollars, just as children play with Monopoly money. They have set up massive networks that received donations primarily from Europe, as well as from Arab or Muslim countries, including Turkey, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, all with the promise that funds would be used to provide meals, shelter, or other aid to desperate civilians in the coastal enclave. Usually, they take some money, have a Gaza man, woman, or child pose with it, then take most of the money back, leaving just a tiny fraction and pocketing the rest. The guys will then go on social media to brag about how honest and pious they are and ask for more donations, all of course while paying Hamas significant sums to ensure that the terror group either provides protection or allows them to operate freely. This particular video is just one single example of one of these “October 7” millionaires who are literally showcasing millions of dollars on social media and saying how they are continuing to do good and ask for even more money, while the majority of the people of Gaza receive absolutely nothing from these funds. This is the tragedy of Gaza, before and after October 7; billions of dollars/euros have been raised to be sent to the Strip by Hamas and the international community, with little to nothing to show for it. Worse, the United States' negotiated ceasefire has allowed Hamas to replenish its coffers by hundreds of millions of dollars, providing the terror group and its infrastructure with cash to rebuild and re-entrench its control in preparation for the inevitable future round of war with Israel.
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One of Gaza’s premier Gold traders describes how during the war after October 7, a massive influx of gold buyers caused the price of the precious metal to hyperinflate, specifically talking about those who collected vast donations from abroad for supposed humanitarian work, buying large volumes for their personal benefit. Some regular people parked their physical cash in gold as a safe bet, as is common in many conflicts. However, a huge new class of grifters and aid thieves emerged and made vast sums of money off the suffering of Gaza – and that includes Hamas, the “pro-resistance” types, and social media personalities and “influencers” who gained access to millions of Western sympathizers and supporters. This is a depressingly familiar story in Palestinian history. For decades, various leaders, factions, NGOs, and influencers have siphoned off billions in aid and development funds, money meant for infrastructure, social welfare, and community resilience, and redirected it toward personal enrichment. They’ve been aided at every step by a steady supply of outside enablers and willing participants, ignorant of the facts and realities on the ground and guided by emotion alone without exercising due diligence or critical thinking.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib44,637 Aufrufe • vor 19 Tagen
US troops are positioned close to the reported ISF staging area near Gaza; notable because it’s American ground forces providing perimeter security rather than Kosovars, Moroccans, or any of the other states floated for the mission. That choice alone hints at a potentially larger U.S. operational footprint in whatever Hamas/Gaza disarmament phase follows. And the fact that they’re not wearing U.S. patches adds another layer: a quiet presence, but a deliberate one.
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The daily barbarism of Hamas continues in Gaza, with executions, torture, and disappearances. A black Gazan is tortured, legs broken & forced to praise Hamas, all because he thanked President Trump & Netanyahu for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food aid during the height of the hunger crisis. The "intersectionality" left won't acknowledge Munir or other black, Christian, or Bedouin Palestinians who have endured systematic oppression at the hands of the Islamist terror group. Palestinian black lives matter! Rapid Response 47
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Hamas is deploying militia & governmental forces throughout the Gaza Strip, shooting, executing, and torturing opponents, clans & perceived threats to ensure the terror organization fully restores dominion over the population. This is the failure of Netanyahu's war strategy!
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Mass torture & executions by Hamas's police and counterintelligence forces in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, among tents & humanitarian zones for the displaced, forcing nearby civilians to cheer & clap under threats. Jihadi fascist thugs are not "resistance" or "freedom fighters."😡
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![It's official - Hamas wants war and pre-emptively rebukes Egypt and Arab proposals for Gaza. This video right here of Hamas's leader Osama Hamdan in Doha, Qatar, where the Aljazeera Forum is taking place, tells you everything you need to know about the terror group and why the resumption of total war in Gaza is merely a matter of time. He says that: 1- Hamas won, and the idea of the resistance was victorious. 2- Iran helped the resistance and will have a role in the future, whereas those who didn't help the resistance can't now expect to play a role (he's talking about the Arab countries). 3- Hamas, which brought unprecedented achievements, cannot be told that it won't be part of the Palestinian national project. 4- Anyone who wants to act in Israel's stead and in its place will be treated as such and will have to deal with the consequences of that (he's talking about any security arrangement that entails PA forces, Arab or international troops). 5- Hamas won't discuss disarming, the departure of its leaders [from Gaza], or disappearing from the scene and won't leave or pay any prices for reconstruction. 6- Hamas and team resistance have Iran, Turkey, and Africa (mainly referring to South Africa) as allies to provide support. 7- Hamas will rebuild its capabilities in Gaza and will expand them further, with its most crucial strength being that it can slap (attack) Israel anytime it wants. This is a significant development and has immense implications for Gaza's people, the region, Trump's plan, and what's going to unfold in the near future.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1890935790919938258/ext_tw_video_thumb/1890931137804967936/pu/img/hPeuv0KxwYPY_P8e.jpg)
It's official - Hamas wants war and pre-emptively rebukes Egypt and Arab proposals for Gaza. This video right here of Hamas's leader Osama Hamdan in Doha, Qatar, where the Aljazeera Forum is taking place, tells you everything you need to know about the terror group and why the resumption of total war in Gaza is merely a matter of time. He says that: 1- Hamas won, and the idea of the resistance was victorious. 2- Iran helped the resistance and will have a role in the future, whereas those who didn't help the resistance can't now expect to play a role (he's talking about the Arab countries). 3- Hamas, which brought unprecedented achievements, cannot be told that it won't be part of the Palestinian national project. 4- Anyone who wants to act in Israel's stead and in its place will be treated as such and will have to deal with the consequences of that (he's talking about any security arrangement that entails PA forces, Arab or international troops). 5- Hamas won't discuss disarming, the departure of its leaders [from Gaza], or disappearing from the scene and won't leave or pay any prices for reconstruction. 6- Hamas and team resistance have Iran, Turkey, and Africa (mainly referring to South Africa) as allies to provide support. 7- Hamas will rebuild its capabilities in Gaza and will expand them further, with its most crucial strength being that it can slap (attack) Israel anytime it wants. This is a significant development and has immense implications for Gaza's people, the region, Trump's plan, and what's going to unfold in the near future.
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"Please die, just die, that's what it's going to take to expose Israel!" says one of the Jubilee participants who made it clear that dead Palestinians in Gaza are excellent visuals on social media and mere fodder for their "pro-Palestine" activism. This is sick, twisted & evil. I hope everyone can see this fraud and scam for what it truly is: an exercise in human sacrifice, just like Hamas is doing. I made it clear that my family, and thousands of dead Palestinians, didn't want to be martyrs for useless Western activists who are engaged in bloodletting that's supposed to "free Palestine" and end the suffering in Gaza. These morally and politically lost "activists" are literal foot soldiers for Hamas and Islamist terrorists in the Western world - it's time to expose and delegitimize them for the death cultists that they support. Listen for yourself!
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib418,188 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
This is a truly disgusting and shameful scene, in which hundreds of men (many supporters of Ben Gvir) were physically attacking a single woman and a New York police officer protecting her, violently throwing objects at her and chanting “death to Arabs.” Of course, what the “pro-Palestine” protesters did in Crown Heights was incredibly unhelpful and immensely foolish, but that doesn’t mean retaliating against a defenseless woman who was clearly not posing a threat. If you look at these scenes and think this is somehow a great display of “fighting back against antisemites,” you’re not only misguided, but quite honestly, you’re a coward. It’s never ok to attack women like this – shame on all who participated in this despicable act of violent hate!
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Hasan Piker continues to act in the most despicable manner possible, sending thousands of his online Jihadi-style followers to attack me, my colleagues, and friends in pursuit of clicks and relevance. This Turkish-American “influencer” represents the worst of the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex and narrative. Listen to what he’s saying and alleging about me: he literally sounds like he has nothing to say, and is making things up as he goes, saying that I don’t call myself Palestinian, but only a Gazan, grasping at straws. He’s pretending that the Israeli Foreign Ministry and senior Israeli officials are regularly monitoring Twitter and just patiently waiting for me to say something so that they could retweet and “tokenize” me. He and his close friend, the rotten Empanada, have been engaged in a ferocious campaign to malign me because this is how they raise money and do their “advocacy,” which is fully and completely supportive of Hamas and supports violence and terrorism in the name of “resistance.” One of the best things that the likes of Hasan Piker can do is to stay out of the Palestinian cause and let authentic Palestinian voices speak, even when that challenges notions that millionaires like himself have about such a topic. The “allies” of the Palestinian people have and continue to be some of the worst, most diabolical enemies of the just and urgent aspirations for Palestinian freedom, dignity, and self-determination.
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib372,207 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
The pro-Hamas militias in New York City (they’re wearing Hamas headbands) have entered a new phase of their derangement in the name of being “pro-Palestine” while protesting. Apparently, it is now acceptable to call random Jewish people “pedophiles” and label them as the “Epstein class” just because they happen to be eating at a Jewish restaurant. Imagine doing this to Palestinian, Arab, or Muslim-owned restaurants. Despite the existence of vast types of pedophilia in the Arab and Muslim worlds, where child marriages are legally protected in many parliaments, and despite the vast Muslim-majority child grooming and rape networks that have been exposed in the United Kingdom, we didn’t see “pro-Israel” protesters engaging in this kind of behavior. We didn’t see the attack, harassment, and sieging of Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians in Europe or the United States while they were dining at restaurants. This behavior is primarily flowing in one direction – and that is shameful, disgusting, and should be embarrassing. Freedom of expression should not be a free license to engage in antisemitism, hate, violence, and thuggery, especially by the same people who are the first to cry about racism and “Islamophobia.” Shame on this disgusting movement of hate, for it is neither pro-Palestine nor does it embody the values of Arab hospitality or Islamic compassion and kindness. Ban the pro-Hamas, pro-terror movement in the Western world now!
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib116,256 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Almost all UN aid that goes into Gaza is being systematically stolen, intercepted, looted, and resold by gangs and criminals, some of whom are working for Hamas. They go online and brag about their deeds. They are starving Gaza. A new distribution system is needed.
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