
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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There are signs that Iran has instructed Hezbollah to escalate, such as a drone-operating cell -- right on the border of the security zone -- that fired a drone aimed at Israelis. Hezbollah's partisans, mostly Lebanese Shia, are too tired and weary of war, but if Iran orders Hezbollah to jump in, it'll do it. This war has taught everyone that Islamic Iran is not an adult government, it is delusional and cannot be reasoned with.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain23,155 Aufrufe • vor 1 Tag

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 3 Monaten

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-Hussain369,095 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

I rooted for Saudi Arabia for decades, especially for Vision 2030 and plan to copy the Dubai model and normalize ties with Israel. But starting a year ago, Saudi reversed course. I can’t tell why. Only explanation is that 2030 failed and economy faces headwinds, therefore Saudi reverted to anti-Israel populism.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain83,471 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

History will never forget this video. #IranProtests #Iran
Hussain Abdul-Hussain404,100 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

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-Hussain347,164 Aufrufe • vor 5 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.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain904,775 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

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-Hussain423,067 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

Had the weirdest debates on i24NEWS Arabic. When asked about Iran escalation by targeting Gulf countries, Professor Ali al-Hail from Qatar blamed Israel, saying the MoU has Qatar and Turkey as part of it, but left out Israel and Arab countries that have normalized relations with her (blaming the UAE without naming it). The MoU ended the Greater Israel plan that the professor seems to understand to mean Israel from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of India. The anchor then came to me, and I took him down like this: There is a problem in Dr. Ali's sequence and logic. According to statements from Qatari and Saudi foreign ministries, Iran struck their gas and oil tankers in Hormuz. How is Israel part of this? I also said the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was divided into two: The spine vs the spineless. The spine included three-- UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. The spineless was also three -- Saudi, Qatar and Oman. When GCC held a summit with Sec Rubio in Bahrain, the spineless signed on the strong final statement, but then they sent their delegations to Khamenei's funeral, and Iran still struck them. For the Gulf, the problem is Islamic Iran, not Israel like the professor was saying. He kept on going with Gaza and 70,000 children and women killed and repeating the same line like a broken disc.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain19,488 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen

حضرة البصارة المحترمة مريم البسام: أنا لا أتكلم باسم سفيرة لبنان في واشنطن ولكني اعلم انه عندما اقترح ترامب اجتياح الشرع لبنان لضبط حزب الله، عارضته السيدة معوض بكل ما أوتيت من قوة ومثلها فعلت كل المجموعة اللبنانية في واشنطن الداعية حزب الله إلى تسليم سلاحه للجيش اللبناني ولتوقيع اتفاقية سلام ثنائية مع إسرائيل وحسن جوار مع الجارتين سوريا وإسرائيل لأن مؤيدي السلام سياديين، ضد ايران وشيعتها السياسية وضد الشرع وتركيا والإخوان المسلمين. اما شيخ عقل السياسة اللبنانية جنبلاط، فعاجز عن تنبؤ رابح فتريه ساعة في احضان الشرع وساعة يقول انه مواطن عثماني. الفيديو المرفق هو للعبد الفقير معارضا — بكل ما يملك —السماح لسوريا التدخل في لبنان، بنفس القوة التي ندعو فيها لنزع سلاح الحزب والسلام مع إسرائيل.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain57,116 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

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-Hussain149,162 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

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 10 Monaten

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 3 Monaten

This is what the Lebanese do: They sing, they dance, they enjoy life. In this video, the inimitable Ibrahim Maalouf entertaining a crowd at Sony Hall, New York City. Can't wait to see the darkness lifted off Lebanon. Can't wait to see Islamic Iran and its Hezbollah vanish.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain17,385 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen