Mar 18, 2025 08:21 PM
(This post was last modified: Mar 19, 2025 07:53 PM by C C.)
She mentions growing up as a child in the Gaza Strip during the 1950s. That, of course, would be part of the "out" for skeptics to dismiss the claims, via asserting that her non-updated experiences belong to a bygone era. But in contrast, other anti-Zionist factions may care little about maintaining positive portrayals for political consumption by the rest of the globe. Having no problem acknowledging any deep indoctrination still pervading Gaza -- feeling that it is well justified due to current and past Israeli actions over the decades.
Some background on that time period... Before 1959 and the brief Israeli occupation of 1956-57, Gaza was more or less a client state of Egypt, despite the appearance of a Palestinian administration:
"Palestinians living in Gaza or Egypt were issued All-Palestine passports. Egypt did not offer them citizenship. From the end of 1949, they received aid directly from UNRWA. During the Suez Crisis (1956), Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops, who withdrew under international pressure. The All-Palestine government was accused of being little more than a façade for Egyptian control, with negligible independent funding or influence. It subsequently moved to Cairo and dissolved in 1959 by decree of Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser."
1959–1967: Egyptian occupation: After the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959, under the excuse of pan-Arabism, Egypt continued to occupy Gaza until 1967. Egypt never annexed the Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor. The influx of over 200,000 refugees from former Mandatory Palestine, roughly a quarter of those who fled or were expelled from their homes during, and in the aftermath of, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War into Gaza resulted in a dramatic decrease in the standard of living. Because the Egyptian government restricted movement to and from Gaza, its inhabitants could not look elsewhere for gainful employment.
https://youtu.be/u0ja85V7Ovw
VIDEO EXCERPT: I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo Egypt, but I grew up as a child in the 50s in the Gaza Strip [...] Gaza at that time was part of Egypt. I attended Gaza elementary schools where we learned hatred, vengeance, retaliation. Peace was never an option.
The concept of peace was something foreign, actually the word peace was never even mentioned in the services of any mosque. We recited poetry every day in the school wishing upon ourselves to die as martyrs.
[..] Our value system was about victimhood, thinking of ourselves as victims, or to be a martyr. To go kill everybody and die as a martyr. Either a victim or a martyr, there is nothing in between.
[...] I remember every Friday prayer, the sheik would be at the end of the sermon. He would curse, "May God destroy the Jews and the Infidel and the even the Christians and non-muslims. And he would call non-muslims the enemies of Allah. If you grow up with cursing as a form of prayer, it can feel and sound normal. Hatred can be normal."
Egyptian Gazan Nonie Darwish speaks on the "truth" about Palestine. ... https://youtu.be/u0ja85V7Ovw
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/u0ja85V7Ovw
Some background on that time period... Before 1959 and the brief Israeli occupation of 1956-57, Gaza was more or less a client state of Egypt, despite the appearance of a Palestinian administration:
"Palestinians living in Gaza or Egypt were issued All-Palestine passports. Egypt did not offer them citizenship. From the end of 1949, they received aid directly from UNRWA. During the Suez Crisis (1956), Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula were occupied by Israeli troops, who withdrew under international pressure. The All-Palestine government was accused of being little more than a façade for Egyptian control, with negligible independent funding or influence. It subsequently moved to Cairo and dissolved in 1959 by decree of Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser."
1959–1967: Egyptian occupation: After the dissolution of the All-Palestine Government in 1959, under the excuse of pan-Arabism, Egypt continued to occupy Gaza until 1967. Egypt never annexed the Strip, but instead treated it as a controlled territory and administered it through a military governor. The influx of over 200,000 refugees from former Mandatory Palestine, roughly a quarter of those who fled or were expelled from their homes during, and in the aftermath of, the 1948 Arab–Israeli War into Gaza resulted in a dramatic decrease in the standard of living. Because the Egyptian government restricted movement to and from Gaza, its inhabitants could not look elsewhere for gainful employment.
https://youtu.be/u0ja85V7Ovw
VIDEO EXCERPT: I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo Egypt, but I grew up as a child in the 50s in the Gaza Strip [...] Gaza at that time was part of Egypt. I attended Gaza elementary schools where we learned hatred, vengeance, retaliation. Peace was never an option.
The concept of peace was something foreign, actually the word peace was never even mentioned in the services of any mosque. We recited poetry every day in the school wishing upon ourselves to die as martyrs.
[..] Our value system was about victimhood, thinking of ourselves as victims, or to be a martyr. To go kill everybody and die as a martyr. Either a victim or a martyr, there is nothing in between.
[...] I remember every Friday prayer, the sheik would be at the end of the sermon. He would curse, "May God destroy the Jews and the Infidel and the even the Christians and non-muslims. And he would call non-muslims the enemies of Allah. If you grow up with cursing as a form of prayer, it can feel and sound normal. Hatred can be normal."
Egyptian Gazan Nonie Darwish speaks on the "truth" about Palestine. ... https://youtu.be/u0ja85V7Ovw