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Kristin Reid @kristinmreid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Agreed, @afalkhatib.bsky.social. However, the shame lies with the shallow movement of fakes who use Palestinians as pawns as readily as Hamas does.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This war is taking an immense toll on the people of Gaza. Death, destruction, displacement. How much more can we take? When will it end?

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Yet those who recognise these incontrovertible truths and understand the damage Hamas has done to the Palestinian cause are told by “activists” and “journalists” that they are not pro-Palestine.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Hamas's Islamist agenda has hijacked Palestinian national aspirations, sabotaged any prospects for peace, squandered our resources, got tens of thousands of our people killed. It has failed the Palestinian people in Gaza and beyond.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Within a generation, Gaza can break free: not just from war, but from the armed resistance ideology that keeps feeding it. A new model of Palestinian self-governance is possible, one that prioritizes dignity over destruction and prosperity over propaganda. This future isn’t a fantasy. It’s a choice.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I chose to break free from the endless cycle of hate and revenge. Honoring my family’s memory means rejecting violence on all sides and resisting the pull of rage, even as my community enforces conformity with narratives that are unhelpful to the just aspirations of the Palestinian people.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It’s time for a pro-Palestine movement that’s about more than being anti-Israel—a movement that challenges groupthink, embraces accountability, and demands real change for our people.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m done with the same narratives that only paint us as victims, denying our role in shaping our reality. Yes, we’ve suffered—but we’ve also been failed by our leadership and trapped by enforced conformity.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I know that there is hope for the people of Gaza.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

By its own rules of engagement, the IDF wouldn’t have tolerated this conduct in past Gaza wars. Those who upheld its god-level morality must face the horror of what unfolded. The NYT investigated the IDF’s actions after Oct. 7—these are their findings. See more details here at the link below:

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Arrogance and class divisions between diaspora Palestinians VS. those in the land or between "urbanites" in major metropolitan areas VS. in suburban & rural places or "Falaheen" and Bedouins is a source of tension & part of the dysfunction within the Palestinian national project.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

When will the truth be spoken out loud? (4/4)

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Arab governments know Hamas has brought catastrophe to Gaza. They know Hamas has empowered Israel’s far right. They know Hamas has destroyed the Palestinian national project. (3/4)

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

These are the same governments that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and outlawed Hamas from their own territories. Behind closed doors, diplomats whisper that Hamas has to go, but publicly? Not a word. Not a single call for Hamas to step down so Gaza can rebuild. (2/4)

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

www.instagram.com/reel/DGdUfZJ... It’s been 16 months since Hamas plunged Gaza into catastrophe, yet not a single Arab government has publicly demanded their removal. Why? (1/4)

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The Forward @forward.com · 10/02/2025

"Palestinians do not represent a problem to be solved or a cause to be won; they are people," writes @afalkhatib.bsky.social. "Yet it seems, in the wake of Trump’s announcement, that many are intent on not seeing them as such."

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Trump has kicked off a new wave of dehumanizing Palestinians. Let's remember who the real enemies are

President Trump's proposal for Gaza has set off a mass dehumanization of Palestinians on social media — with a real cost.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Aljazeera Arabic is a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda. Ban them.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Thank you, Simon, for your friendship, support, and essential work in telling the fascinating history of the holy land.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sebag’s book on Jerusalem is a must-read, offering a nuanced, compelling history of the city at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict. While you may not agree with every conclusion, it’s an invaluable resource for understanding the holy city.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

After October 7, Simon Sebag Montefiore was one of the first to amplify my writing, helping me connect with key individuals and organizations, particularly in the UK. His support has meant so much.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

IS in Africa. Tensions across the greater ME. Turkish and Qatari relations with the Trump administration. Predictions for 2025.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires rejecting black-and-white views, embracing complexity, and acknowledging the humanity of all involved. www.thejc.com/lets-talk/do...

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Iran’s nuclear program. Libya’s strategic importance. The Egyptian economy. The war in Sudan. Predictions for 2025.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail, I argue that Palestinians in Gaza have no future under Hamas, describing how the ceasefire is merely the first step, but without bold action, may become the last & would merely freeze the conflict.

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Opinion: Palestinians have no future under Hamas

The unprecedented global wave of support for the Palestinian cause after Oct. 7 has been largely squandered

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Many Palestinians in Gaza are posting this photo to expose Hamas's manipulation of camera angles to overstate/inflate its supposed level of support. I said repeatedly that Hamas is going to pay, manipulate, & herd young men & boys into "victory" celebrations & hostage handovers.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hamas's "Al-Aqsa Flood" has been a complete operational failure. But its propaganda succeeded in conquering Columbia University, college campuses, Western capitals, leftist circles, NGOs, most of the Arab world, the "pro-Palestine" community, "indy" media, activists & journalists

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

not to mention regional shifts that have weakened the axis of allies it once relied upon. But it is still in control despite tens of thousands of Palestinian lives lost, unimaginable destruction, and a high political, economic, social, diplomatic, and geostrategic cost to Israel.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

by the Israeli government & military for the past 15 months who must be held accountable by their people for these failures, not to mention for their actions against Gaza’s entire society. Hamas is significantly weakened, isolated, likely unable to rearm, & not what it was on October 6

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

that this happened in northern Gaza, which experienced the most ferocious elements of the Israeli war, is a condemnation of the entire war strategy. That hostages are still in the north, and that sprawling networks of underground tunnels and facilities remain intact expose the fraudulent claims…

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The video of hundreds of Hamas’s militiamen with their gear, vehicles, and weaponry casts serious doubt on all claims of the group’s imminent destruction.It exposes the fraud of Hamas’s “battalions” that were a measurement for progress during the war.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The video is reverberating around the Middle East to show the supposedly divine victory that was bestowed upon Hamas, who are supposedly courageous for holding women and children as hostages. But there’s something far more disastrous in this video that deserves dispassionate assessment and review.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hamas released a propaganda video capturing the spectacle during which it handed over 3 young Israeli women to the Red Cross as part of the ceasefire/hostage deal in Gaza. In it, the terror group offers a certificate of release to the 3 young women who also received a gift bag w/ Hamas’ logo on it

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This footage is feeding anti-Palestinian sentiments & inflaming right-wing Israelis’ desire to restart the war after phase 1. Qatari state media [Aljazeera] participating in this charade is predictable, but that a once highly respected NGO like the Red Cross is a willing participant is shameful.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The deal should have stipulated that the exchange happens in private and away from large crowds – Hamas should not be allowed to keep doing this, and the Red Cross should immediately halt future exchanges until new arrangements are made.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

How shameful & embarrassing that parading young women by armed terrorists (who miraculously found their uniforms 15 months later) is considered a legitimate act of "resistance.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hamas doesn’t care if the world sees Gazans as the aggressors or savages as long as it gets to assert its rotten, fascistic narrative, making the terror group the true enemy of the Palestinian people.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Shame on the Red Cross for being a willing participant in Hamas's despicable theatrics. Parading young Israeli female hostages in front of a mob of militants & local residents who were herded into participating in the spectacle is terrible for the women, and portrays Gazans in a horrendous light.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Netanyahu, the IDF, the war, and "total victory" slogans have all failed. Israel squandered billions, lost its international standing, lost hundreds of soldiers, acted arrogantly & shunned US advice on counterinsurgency strategy, only for Hamas to resume complete control of Gaza.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hamas's methodology: fight in flip-flops & civilian clothes, hide in schools, hospitals, tunnels, set up aid theft/looting gangs, leave 2 million Gazans to face a ferocious war on their own, only to miraculously find your clean uniforms, guns & cars when a ceasefire is announced.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Aljazeera documented how Hamas's al-Qassam Brigade fighters emerged from the Nasser Hospital complex with their weapons and vehicles in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, as soon as the ceasefire went into effect, similar to how they emerged from displacement tents 3 days ago.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

🧵“This has been an exceptionally painful and life-altering event that has set back Palestinians in Gaza by decades,” he said.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

🧵Over the coming weeks, the absence of war could at least allow for some form of healing and processing for Palestinians, as they also sift through their destroyed neighborhoods and look to obtain humanitarian supplies.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

🧵For Alkhatib, the Atlantic Council fellow, who is originally from Gaza, the anguish over the past year is immeasurable. “I lost both of my childhood homes in Gaza City and in Rafah in addition to 33 of my immediate and extended family members who were killed in multiple Israeli airstrikes,” he said

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

🧵“Trump needs calm in Gaza to pursue other regional priorities while allowing him to focus on domestic issues that are central to his mandate by his voters,” Alkhatib said.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Wall Street Journal🧵: The deal was struck as Hamas was looking for an off-ramp and Netanyahu was feeling out of political options and capital, said Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. t.co/X0am9wal4X

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https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/palestinians-gaza-hope-israel-hamas-ceasefire-09cc87e6?st=HcqD8v&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Oh Nerdeen, most in Gaza don't consider Hamasnik cultists like you in the West as Palestinian & loathe your fetishization of the "resistance" that's getting them slaughtered by Israel. If you wanted the killing to stop you wouldn't keep supporting Hamas which got Gaza annihilated.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The Netzarim Corridor is a line drawn in blood. As ceasefire talks unfold, and hopes are raised, will it usher in stricter rules of engagement, independent oversight, and mechanisms to protect civilians? Or will this deadly divide remain a symbol of suffering, Gaza’s grim legacy? Link in comments.

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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Why are 33 of my immediate & extended family members dead in the Gaza Strip? Why are tens of thousands of Palestinians dead & 75% of Gaza is destroyed? So Hamas terrorists could continue to rule the Strip? So that the Islamic Republic could "resist" Israel? Please explain to me💔

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