Efraim 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇪🇨🇺

Congratulations, Abdul El-Sayed. You won. You outsmarted millions. If voters in other states had been allowed to vote for you, many more would have fallen for your charm. Keep going and maybe one day it's the presidency. Like it or not, they will call you Senator. You beat them at their own game. Western democracy gave you representation, and you're using that power to shape your country (yes, your country) closer to your worldview. Who knows, maybe you'll even work to undo the Muslim Brotherhood designation. As an observant Muslim, why wouldn't you pursue what you believe in? And let's be honest: you read your voters far better than they read you. Your critics put the questions about your associations in front of them. Your voters, many of them Jewish, shrugged and backed you anyway. As we say in Arabic: القانون لا يحمي المغفلين. The law doesn't protect the gullible. The political current that cheered your victory has spent decades working patiently toward this, for the good of humanity as it sees it, and for the good of its children. I disagree. I grew up where Islam has ruled since the 7th century. Since the eighties, the Muslim Brotherhood has promised us الإسلام هو الحل, "Islam is the solution." We lived the result, and nothing could be further from the truth. That was our experience in the Muslim world, the same world your parents chose to leave. Maybe America will be different. Maybe here it will finally work, because the people who mistake your smug smile for a sweet one are so much easier to win over. They have no resilience. They take every smile at face value. And they have so little sense of who they are that some would trade it for anything that offers certainty. Congratulations. The hard work paid off. While your side spent decades organizing, the people who should have been paying attention were busy inventing new identities, new grievances, new reasons to be offended, new things to smoke, new gods. Then the Palestinian cause led them straight into bed with Islamism. And for Palestine, they'll march hypnotized to the end of the earth. @AbdulElSayed

In November 2025, Sky News Arabia asked me for an interview. I rarely speak to Arabic-language media, but the producers kept insisting, telling me they admired my courage. So I made an exception. Obviously, the interviewer challenged my support for Israel. Her main complaint was that I never "criticize Israel." I asked her to be specific. She said Israel is behind all of our problems in the region. I told her that political Islam is behind our problems. Then I asked her: what would you do if you were in a park and heard someone scream "Allahu akbar"? I answered for her: "You'd run. Like I would." Islamists thrive where there is widespread ignorance, ignorance fed by poverty, and poverty caused by bad governance and corruption. That is the fertile ground they recruit from. Israel did not create it. When she ran out of arguments, she reached for the classic: Ben Gvir. Even when Ben Gvir "desecrates" Al-Aqsa, she said, I don't criticize Israel. I told her that as far as I'm concerned, no Jew desecrates Al-Aqsa. The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Jerusalem isn't named even once in the Quran. And I have gone up with Jews myself, so I've seen with my own eyes how they "storm" Al-Aqsa. What circulates in Arab media is lies. Jews enter through a separate gate. Israeli police have stopped them from bringing prayer books so as not to offend Muslims. They don't go into the mosque (why would they?). They pray at the site, and because that offends Muslims, it gets called "desecration." I am offended on behalf of the Jews. Many Jews in Israel also criticize Jews who pray on the Temple Mount. They give many reasons, but I've come to see that underneath it all, most of them are afraid. They don't want Jews praying there because they fear provoking Muslims. Even those who know the desecration claims are absurd would rather appease than confront. I grew up in the Arab world, and I know where appeasement leads: the bully grows bolder, and the bullied keep giving more away. I refuse to play that game. That is why more and more Israelis now call me "Ben Gvir." Sometimes it hides contempt. Mostly it hides fear. Needless to say, they never aired the interview.