Over the past two weeks, I have participated in numerous podcast episodes on Arabic-language YouTube channels. The discussions focused almost exclusively on the Arab-Israeli conflict. There, I continued to shed light on the most sensitive and controversial aspects of this conflict the very same issues I began addressing following the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, against innocent Israeli civilians.

These positions provoked widespread campaigns of defamation, hatred, and incitement against me in the Egyptian and Qatari media. Yet, this has not and will not affect my conviction: the priority is to convey the facts with the utmost neutrality. My writings aim to illuminate the reader on the deeper dimensions of a conflict whose reverberations reach us here in Sweden, where some cities and regions sometimes appear more part of the Middle East than of Northern Europe.

One of the most emotionally charged issues is the so-called “Palestinian state.” However, a return to historical sources and available documents reveals a much simpler reality than is often portrayed: there has never existed, in any historical period, an independent sovereign state called........

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