Cross-border fighting along the Gaza Strip quickly escalated this week after Israeli law enforcement stormed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, wounding over 300 Palestinians. The incident came amidst growing protests over a court case that could see dozens of Palestinians evicted from their East Jerusalem homes.
To address the ongoing violence, El-Kurd granted interviews to several Western media outlets, two of which soon went viral on social media.
During his appearance on CNN International, El-Kurd quickly pushed back on the anchor for saying his "family home was slated for eviction," stating that this was "not an eviction" and instead was "forced ethnic displacement." He added that, per international law, Israel doesn't have legitimate jurisdiction over occupied East Jerusalem, and does not have the legal authority to evict Palestinians from the area.
"Do you support the protests, the violent protests, that have erupted in solidarity with you and other families in your position right now?" the anchor asked at one point.
"Do you support the violent dispossession of me and my family?" El-Kurd shot back.
Meanwhile, a barrage of rocket fire from Hamas forces in Gaza over the past few days has left at least five Israelis dead, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 65 Palestinians, including children. Numerous residential and business properties have been decimated in the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli military has said it has killed at least two key Hamas military figures in the strikes.
In another interview with MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohelydin, who is of Palestinian descent and once lived in Gaza, El-Kurd heavily criticized the Israeli assertion that the issue is nothing more than a "private land dispute."
"Today the difference we have is that they no longer use their artillery to steal our homes except when they do come and steal their homes," he declared. "Now they use a supremacist, colonial judicial system that colludes with organizations to take our homes. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's moral or correct or historically just. What's happening to us is ethnic cleansing."
Immediately following El-Kurd's appearance, Mohyeldin welcomed on Mark Regev, a former Israeli ambassador and current adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the contentious interview, which featured Mohyeldin challenging Regev on whether or not Israel was responsible for "war crimes" against the Palestinians, the ex-ambassador called out El-Kurd specifically
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Comment: Regev's spin is a master class of deflection. It's breathtaking to watch.
"He basically said Israel had no right to exist. He said my country was built on stealing other people's land," Regev exclaimed. "So you have different opinions on both sides, very strong opinions on both sides."
Less than 24 hours after these interviews, armed Israeli soldiers marched El-Kurd and his family out of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. At one point, one soldier pushed aside a woman who tried to hold El-Kurd's hand.
After escorting him through the streets, the soldiers aggressively shoved him outside the steel barricades marking the boundaries of the neighborhood. "Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!" El-Kurd shouted at the soldiers in Arabic in response.
El-Kurd's sister was also kicked out of the neighborhood by the Israeli forces and repeatedly pushed back by soldiers when she tried to re-enter the barricaded entrance.
In a statement on Twitter, El-Kurd said he was "fine & unintimidated," adding, "our protest was nonviolent, this was probably targeted (not that nonviolence is superior). the settlers, who are allowed in while we're kicked out, are armed w knives & guns. the soldiers tonight were animalistic, howling & glaring. they're big mad."
A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces did not immediately respond when asked for comment about the expelling of El-Kurd from his neighborhood.
The most obvious example of how this "rules based order" functions is exemplified by the operations, techniques, inhumane punishments and cruelties, suppression's, denial of "Rights", land theft and usurpation's, and the "Ethnic cleansing" of Palestine. All paid for and supported by the United States and their allies tax payer monies.
I am now eighty seven, have witnessed all of this for most of my adult life, this is my conclusion: Such "rules based" inventions, so well established and supported by others, who should know better, can and will end, in only one way; There will be war and conflagration UN-imagined, it is now inevitable, too much has been invested into causing it, all the lies and deceits are in place, it is fait accompli; The grand prize, subjugation and may be the totalitarian rules based order of whole World.
Democratic National Governments World wide are criminally responsible because they have insanely succumbed to the twisted visions and lies "erupting" out of the United States, and they have not troubled to ask the Peoples they Govern, either for their opinion or instructions, so that the Peoples "Will" shall prevail; such Governments are necessarily complicit and corrupt.
Such Governments do not need the "Peoples" armies any more; They need only a handful of brainwashed psychopaths willing to press buttons when ordered. Mark my words, be ready and prepared, this War must happen; my personal hope is, that it strikes down the original rehearsals of the New Rules Based Order first; The illegal occupiers operating in the Middle East and professing "their" God to be an original real estate vendor.
Some aspects are inevitable; so before wagging your fingers at me, warning of all the innocent Arab civilians likely in harms way, let me remind you of one stand alone fact; all Arabs and neighboring Nations are complicit because they almost literally have stood by and just let it happen; they tried and failed, falling at the first fence, does that mean all is lost? No, If the cause is of paramount importance, and surely the Palestine cause is one such,you re-group get stronger and resist; you do not swallow the occupiers Shekels, obfuscations and deceptions, and you do not get into bed with them. Read their instruction manual, it clearly instructs, "By deception thou shall succeed", and nothing else can account for the Inhumane, wretched and dire circumstances, the Palestinians are now mired in; and where pray, is the Arab and Muslim support? It is busy sucking on the occupiers teats, and calling that "normalisation". The shame and disgrace of this will sit with the Arabs and Muslims for all Eternity. Amen It Is Written.