Egyptian writer Dalia Ziada, the director for the Center for Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean studies, Saturday on Newsmax outlined the backlash she got in her own country for standing up for the Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks and to “tell the truth about what happened that day.”
“The claims that have been promoted in the Egyptian media and the Arab media about the issue as they tried to portray it just as a clash between the Israeli military and Hamas militants, no one mentioned the raping of the women,” the Middle East peace advocate told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “No one mentioned the burning of the houses and all the brutal scenes that we’ve seen that day.”
But, Ziada, who is now in the United States, said she received a “horrible backlash” not only from radical Islamists, which she expected, but from “ordinary Egyptians and the Egyptian state.”
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