Ibraham Mossallam has been, until just now, a pilot for United Airlines. He’s also a great fan of Hamas, and a very great hater of Israel, as he’s made clear over the last six weeks in his postings on social media. This makes some people nervous, who would prefer a pilot who does not approve of raping, torturing, and murdering people, and who might take it into his head to bring down a plane full of infidels — the “most vile of created beings” — and in the process, become a Muslim martyr. More on Mossallam can be found here.
A United Airlines pilot has been ‘removed from service with pay’ after posting dozens of messages on Facebook expressing support for Hamas in the aftermath of the terror group’s barbaric assault on Israel that killed 1,200 people on October 7.
Why was he “removed from service with pay”? Why was he not discharged immediately? What would have happened to a white pilot who was discovered to have posted online praise of Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd? He would have been fired at once. Mosallam is not merely guilty of hate speech, but has praised the atrocities of a designated terrorist organization.
United pilot Ibrahim R. Mossallam described the attack on civilians across southern Israel as ‘resistance by brave people who have endured decades of occupation, oppression, humiliation, apartheid, and straight up murder.’
Nothing says “resistance by brave people” like beheading babies, burning children to death, raping, torturing, and murdering young girls, gouging out eyes, slitting off breasts, cutting off genitalia, from both the living and the dead, murdering children in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. And what “decades of occupation” in Gaza is Mosallam talking about? Has he forgotten that there has not been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2005, when they all pulled out? What “oppression” and “humiliation” of the Gazans is he talking about? Israel has tried to help the Gazans by supplying the Strip with electricity, diesel fuel, and food. It has in the past urged Qatar to provide more aid to the Strip. It has tried to alleviate the unemployment problem by providing 20,000 Gazans with permits so that they can work inside Israel, earning three to ten times what they would earn from similar jobs in Gaza.
There is no “apartheid” in Gaza. How could there be, given that everyone in the Strip is Arab? There is no “apartheid,” either, in the Jewish state. In Israel, Arabs sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the Knesset, go abroad as ambassadors. The chairman of Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, is an Arab. Jews and Arabs work in the same factories and offices, play on the same sports teams and in the same orchestras, act in the same films, are treated in the same hospitals by both Jewish and Arab medical personnel, attend the same classes in the same universities. Jews and Arabs own restaurants and start high-tech businesses together. The only difference in their treatment is that Jews must, while Arabs may, serve in the military. This truth doesn’t matter to Mossalam, but it should mater to the rest of us.
The “oppression” and “humiliation” that Gazans endure comes at the hands of their greedy and cruel rulers in Hamas, who imprison and even murder anyone who objects to their rule.. It is Hamas leaders who have stolen billions of dollars from the aid meant for the entire population of Gaza. Just three of them, Khaled Meshaal ($4 billion), Mousa Abu Marzouk ($3 billion) and Ismail Haniyeh ($4 billion) have between them made off with $11 billion in donor aid. And lesser amounts, in the millions, have been taken by second-echelon leaders. Much of the money that was left after the ruling crooks helped themselves has been used by Hamas to build a vast underground network of very deep tunnels, big enough to store vast quantities of weapons, command and control centers, and living quarters for terrorists.
‘For all my friends here in FB land with Questions/Thoughts/Assumptions/Critique about what’s transpiring in Palestine, currently in response to the Zionist occupation, please work on expanding your media literacy,’ he [Mossallam] added.
Mossallam said that the US media is ‘heavily politicized and skewed to show a non-occupying narrative of Palestine.’
Yes, it’s true that some in the American media do not denounce Israel nearly as much as Ibraham Mossallam would like. You see, their reports are “skewed to show a non-occupying narrative of Palestine.” Why, some of those in the American media even dare to claim that Jews have lived in the land of Palestine since 2000 B.C., and then have the gall to try to convince us that the Jews have some kind of historical link to the land, which Mossallam wants everyone to know is crazy. It’s the Palestinians, not the Jews, who have been in the land since time immemorial. It’s the Palestinians who are the descendants of the ancient tribe of Canaanites; the Jews don’t even belong in the Middle East; as the descendants of the Khazars, they should return to Central Asia.
by Hugh Fitzgerald