“The story of Yahya Mahamed, a Muslim Arab, who said his eyes were opened to the truth about Israel”

JERUSALEM POST
How did a Muslim Arab Turn into a Pro-Israel Activist?
by Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll
April 25, 2017

Mahamed was raised to perceive Israel as an oppressive, evil regime. “I remember being a child and watching television with my mother. The only thing on was Palestine, Israel oppressing Palestine, Israelis killing Arabs, Arabs killing Israelis. Nothing else. My whole world was the conflict; in school, on TV, in the community. I was an Arab and therefore a Palestinian.”…“You see, as a child, I was given this illusion: either Israel or Palestine, but not both. Israel only existed because it took land from the Palestinians. We were given no Jewish history. I wasn’t given an education, I was given propaganda. I was taught in school that Hitler did a good thing and left a small group of Jews alive so that the world would know why he killed the rest. READ MORE

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