Born in Bethlehem of Judea, Walid's grandfather was the Muslim Mukhtar (chieftain) of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem (The Shepherd's Fields) and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler.
Walid's great grandfather, Abdullah Ali Awad-Allah, was also a fighter and close associate of both Abdul Qader and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who led the Palestinians against Israel. Walid lived through and witnessed Israel’s Six Day War while living in Jericho.
As a young man, he became a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and participated in acts of terror and violence against Israel, and was later imprisoned in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem's central prison for incitement and violence against Israel.
After his release, he continued his life of violence and rioting in Bethlehem and the Temple Mount. After entering the U.S, he worked as a counselor for the Arab Student Organization at Loop College in Chicago and continued his anti-Israel activities.
In 1993, Walid studied the Tanach (Jewish Bible) in a challenge to convert his wife to Islam. Six months later, after intense study, Walid realized that everything he had been taught about Jews was a lie. Convinced he was on the side of evil, he became an advocate for his former enemy.
Driven by a deep passion to heal his own soul, and to bring the truth about the Jews and Israel to the world, Walid shed his former life and his work as a software engineer and set out to tirelessly bring the cause of Israel to tens of thousands of people throughout the world: churches and synagogues, civic groups, government leaders and media.
Walid has written several online books including "Dear Muslim, Let Me Tell You Why I Believed" and "Israel, And The World's Mock Trial”, where he exposes anti-Semitism and the hatred of Jews in both the Islamic Christian and secular worlds.
Walid is an American citizen and lives in the USA with his wife and children, under this assumed name.
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True Palestinians are not children of Ishmael. (Gen 10:6, 10:14) They are not cousins to the children and descendents of Abraham!
The children of the people of Goliath the giant, who King David slew, are the Philistines, and their root stock is originally from Egypt. The Philistines are the relatives of the Caphtorim, who also left Egypt and settled Crete and later Cyprus and founded Tyre and Sidon. The people of Tyre and Sidon are the root stock of the Phoenicians, who originally settled most of the empty Mediterranean including Sicily and Carthage.
They are children of Ham if they are Philistine by blood, no family relations with Abraham or Ishmael is possible.
The list of the offspring of Ham is impressive, but I will mention only a few famous ones. The whole list is in Genesis 10. Nimrod of Babel, which is Babylon; Erech of Accad, which is Akkadia; Assur of Nineveh, which is Assyria; and the Canaanites whom the God of Moses ordered destroyed under Joshua, whose borders included the famous cites of the vale of Siddim, which were Sodom, Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboim: which God destroyed by fire and brimstone, are all from Ham and not from Abraham.
The children of Shem through Arphaxad, Gen 10:22 is the root of Abraham. Gen 11: 10-26 clearly show the direct line through Terah, Abram’s father.
Any Palestinian blood claim to the land cannot be founded in the Torah or to be completely clear no Palestinian blood claim to the land through the Koran can be supported either.
If they claim to be son’s of Abraham through Ishmael, Ishmael married an Egyptian and begat 12 princes, Gen 25: 12-18, Ishmael went east while Abraham still lived. If they are Arabs, through Abraham’s wife Keturah, or other concubines, Gen 25: 1-6, they received gifts, and moved east while Abraham still lived. Their claim to land is only to the East and is outside Israel. They must be considered as distant relatives but they were not given land under Joshua. They have no ancient claim to Israel. Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. Gen 25: 5
If the people who call themselves Palestinian are not really Philistine, then what are they? Are they Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Idumean, Nabatean, Midianite, or of some other tribe?
Whoever they are, if they are decendents of Abraham of the Bible, they cannot be true Palestinians.