
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
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Research Fellow at FDD. Author of The Arab Case for Israel (Wicked Son/Post Hill Press 2026). Advocate of immediate, unconditional, Arab-Israeli peace.
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Very telling how much trust the Lebanese have in Israeli strike precision. This Christian family was driving when Israel hit a Hezbollah target. Mother lost it, started invoking Jesus, Mary and the saints for safety, daughter driver started calming her that it’s nothing and soon traffic will move. A male voice in the background describes how precise the missile sailed.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain625,801 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

The Lebanese are fighting back. This Hezbollah motorbike rally was waving its flags, honking and passing through the Saqiyat Al-Janzeer (non-Shia hood) in Beirut. The local resistance stopped the bikes and started beating the Hezbollah thugs and chasing them away. Only if the Iranians did this to their basij…
Hussain Abdul-Hussain368,909 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

History will never forget this video. #IranProtests #Iran
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The earliest jokes of the Syrian revolution against Assad were that his security forces frisked Syrians looking for their “Facebooks” (believing Facebook was a physical machine). Assad’s security also beat Syrians while asking: “Who’s your lord?” The tortured Syrian was expected to answer, “Assad is my lord.” Now Sharaa’s security are doing the exact same thing. They beat a Syrian, accusing him of talking to Kurds on Facebook, then ordered him to bark—which he did while they continued beating him. New Syria, new Shmyria…
Hussain Abdul-Hussain347,039 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Emirati Arab Cast host Jamal Al-Mulla spills the beans: When any Arab government wants not to take a position on anything, it inserts the Palestine Cause into its statement. Jamal says that in 1991, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Palestinian leader Arafat said in a speech before the Arab League that "the Kuwaiti problem will be solved only after the Palestinian Cause." Palestine was a cause, but Kuwait -- invaded and burnt down by a fellow Arab country -- was only a problem. In 1991, only 12 out of 22 Arab League members voted against Iraq, six Gulf countries and the six others were bought off by wealthy Gulf governments. This round, the line is even clearer since aggression is not by an Arab League member against another, but by a non-Arab foreign country against Arab countries, and yet, the Arab League is shameful and so are countries like Iraq, Algeria, Sudan's Burhan government and West Libya government. The Gulf is hurt and will not forget how fellow Arab countries let it down, like always citing Palestine as a distraction. When the shooting stops, I expect a few Gulf countries to rush to normalization with Israel. My money is on Kuwait, perhaps Saudi Arabia too.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain148,718 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Tuesday, Concordia 2025: - Arabs view peace as a prize Israel should beg for. Contrast with Abraham Accords that offer mutual benefits for Arabs and Israel. - Treat peace as a tool, not the end. Signing peace first allows resolving issues as friends, not enemies. - Syria’s Sharaa does not align with Abraham Accords. He follows the old model, placing peace after several conditions like convincing the nonexistent Arab and Islamic public opinion. In these countries, there is no public opinion. People believe what their leaders want them to.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain422,991 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Wow! If you are a Mideast expert, leave everything and watch this video. I could have watched hours of it. This is Waddah Younis, the Hezbollah fighter whom the IDF captured when he got stuck (or was hiding) in a tunnel shaft in south Lebanon. Waddah hails from a Communist family, but says that no one in Lebanon would give a job to a Shia (totally not true), and says Hezbollah is the only one that has money to employ people (true). He says that Hezbollah launched attacks from south #Lebanon villages because it controls municipal councils, such as in Hoola (formerly a bastion of Communists) but not in Rmeish (predominantly Christian) because the mayor is a partisan of Christian anti-Hezbollah leader Samir Geagea and his Lebanese Forces Party. Waddah also says that Hezbollah fighters ran away. They were only interested in the money. This should debunk our perception of Iran-led "resistance" fighters as being ideological, whether Hamas or Hezbollah. These people are unemployed and join terrorist organizations mainly because of unemployment. Now that we know that Tehran has cashed more than $200 billion since Biden came to power, it'd be wise to reconsider how "de-escalation" might work: Not by holding back our allies from fighting back but by strangling the source of terrorism and belligerence.
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On Shams TV قناة شمس: - Houthis have parted ways with Iran. Their participation in the war was ceremonial. They hope to be rewarded with legitimacy as rulers of Yemen eventually. - Hamas is gone and rules half of the Gaza Strip with light weapons only. - Iranian proxies in Iraq showed poor performance in the war. The Iraqi government confronted them, and now their political position has become much weaker. - The only Iranian proxy that executed Iran's instructions and jumped into the war was Hezbollah, but it has been enormously weakened. If Iran agrees to US terms, it’ll have to distance itself from the Lebanese militia, which will become easy prey for the Lebanese state.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain77,460 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

After #Israel respects going back to 1974 ceasefire, #Syria will consider talking further to Israel over the Golan (toward peace). But then he added that current Arab peace treaties, including Abraham Accords, are government-to-government and not people-to-people because the Arab and Islamic street is not on board (and currently inflamed over Gaza). These treaties should be revised (to become more genuine and reflect “Arab street”). So, here you have it, no bilateral Syrian peace with Israel (like Abraham Accords), and no peace with Israel without Syria getting back the Golan.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain260,678 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Dear Western media and academics: The video below, by one of Hezbollah's founders Imad Mughniyah, dispels the myth that the pro-Iran militia was founded as a reaction to Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. What Mughniyah says is that Hezbollah's spread in Lebanon as an Islamist movement is independent of "resistance" that is a temporary tactic. Hezbollah is an Islamist society with deep roots in Lebanon and that no one can uproot. To understand the problem of why "Hezbollah being part of the Lebanese fabric" is a huge problem, replace the word Islamist with the word Nazi.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain72,732 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Told i24NEWS English: 1. By demanding ceasefire for Lebanon, Iran has proven that Hezbollah started war to serve Iranian, not Lebanese, agenda. 2. Hezbollah looks desperate for a ceasefire. 3. Israel's problem of armed militias in Lebanon predates the creation of the Islamic Republic in Iran and goes back to 1969. Iran has latched on Hezbollah to serve its own interest by blackmailing Israel and the West, but nothing Lebanese about that. 4. The Lebanese government has been saying all the right things and approving all the right resolutions, but we can't tell whether the state is unwilling or unable to disband Hezbollah. At the end of the day, the final mile to finish off Hezbollah cannot be done except by the Lebanese themselves.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain57,404 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Ambassador Tom Barrack Barrack says “we” screwed up by drawing Sykes-Picot borders that didn’t reflect local wishes. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Barrack says Syria’s Sykes-Picot borders are engraved in stone and should never be altered.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain93,292 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Sociologists must study this video showing Shia Lebanese mourning Khamenei in Beirut. They would not have done so for their own (Christian) president. This is the main reason for the failure of the nation-state in the Middle East: individuals see themselves as part of cross-border nations rather than the nation-state within whose borders they live
Hussain Abdul-Hussain73,560 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Senior Hezbollah official says his militia will not agree to U.S. trained battalions in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), meaning he wants it in Hezbollah’s pocket like now. If LAF is reformed, Hezbollah will wage war on it because only 10 percent of Hezbollah fighters are deployed to the south, he adds.
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