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left liberal, secularist, feminist, pro-LGBT, pro tolerance/inclusion. occasionally posts poetry. son of a Jewish mother and Muslim father.
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I write this saddened by what has happened to Lebanon and vile responses gleeful with the devastation.
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Americans are so detached.
There is nothing "cool" about large-scale combined arms warfare or terror bombing, which is what the US did to Iraq.
The human suffering created by the Gulf is nothing to celebrate or "find cool"
I’ve never seen an edit that made me want to enlist in the army this quickly
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- be an Arab country
- be known for your white beaches
- has a lot of Roman ruins
- has a lot of colonial architecture
- has cities founded by the Phoenicians
- has a city called the "city of poets"
- has a city called Tripoli
This country is Libya. Flag is unrelated.
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Ataturk is maybe the most overrated "moderniser." He was a murderous dictator and a mediocre developmentalist.
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REPORT 🚨
Sinwar is reportedly dressed up like Ben Gvir and is now indistinguishable from him.
He is also reportedly hiding at his residence to sow further confusion.
Hellfire missiles needed against Ben Gvir's residency.
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The whole "I'm not Arab, I'm this thing else" is just a coping mechanism to deal with repression, inequality, underdevelopment, and not wanting to be associated with Nejdi Wahabis who are now the face of Arab culture even though they are at most 2 percent of Arabs.
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Two of the most prominent people fighting against the Crusader kingdoms were a Kurd & a Sephardic Jew.
The opposition to the crusades was cross-sectarian.
Your perception of the Crusades is childish & only serves to harm the Maronites of Lebanon while you're comfortable in France
it is natural for me as a maronite to be on the side of the crusaders just like it is natural for a sunni muslim to be on the side of saladin
the maronites participated actively in the crusades with 20,000+ men
instead of being a f
@990t
and dumb, read history n1993r
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How does this have anything to do with the "Middle East"?
This is just theology.
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I don't think any country deserves to have its power grid destroyed or industrial base.
The bombing of Iraqi infrastructure in 1991 is widely seen as something bad today.
Liberating Kuwait was cool, wasn’t terror, was good and Iraq got what it deserved in 1991.
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Biden, like a lot of Westerners, has projected European antisemitic concepts and history on the Arab region and Mena as a whole.
Biden says Hamas is motivated by “ancient desires” to eliminate Jews
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Tunisia electing the most inoffensive Islamists, who expanded the rights of social minorities due to the strong emerging civil society, was treated as some definitive argument why Arabs can't have democracy while Europe elects fascists years after the refugee waves subsided.
If Europe elects far-right parties to power I don’t think it would make a radical difference in its politics. When Meloni was elected in Italy she continued a liberal immigration policy because it is driven by mundane labor market concerns of an aging population and not ideology.
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This guy is exploiting this tragedy that unfolded in Libya during the 2015 civil war to have his racialised sectarianism affirmed to him by a bunch of westerners who don't care one bit about Arab Christians beyond using them as blank slate to demonise Muslims.
Remember the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were beheaded by Islamic extremists for refusing to convert to Islam.
No one protested for them!
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@LaiciteStan
It does not go far enough to describe Zionism as racialised religious nationalism.
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If you identify as an Iranian outside the Fars region, you're just a colonised idiot who identifies as their coloniser.
If you’re a Muslim from outside of this area, don’t brag about how your ancestors “defeated Rome and Persia”.
You’re just a colonised idiot who identifies as their coloniser.
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@MMarcoAJ1
"Actions have consequences" is not something one should say about a war and its aftermath that killed 100,000s of children.
The US literally bombed an infant formula plant along with power stations, water filtration, etc.
It took Iraq 2 years to build a new one under the blockade
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- Be an Arab country
- Be located in Africa
- Is famous for being an agricultural bredbasket region
- is known for its pyramids
- is known for its ancient history
- Has a capital located at the centre point of the Nile
This country is Sudan. Flag is unrelated.
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This is a great example of this faux concern for regional minorities. This person does not even bother knowing the difference between ethnic minorities like Amazigh and Arab religious minorities like Maronites.
It is just performative charade to launder sectarianism and racism.
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@souljagoytellem
The Arab Marxists were right about the Gulf monarchies. That's all. Whether it was George Habash, Abraham Serfaty, etc.
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There's this oriental notion that all Arabs wear jallabiyas/thobes.
The Arab world has gotten a lot more conservative in recent decades due to the collapse of left-wing elements & Saudi trillions for a region wide social transformation.
These Saudi billions are largely gone now.
Video posted by young people hanging at the New Cairo City suburb outside of Cairo.
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No Arab country was inclusive and pluralistic than Tunisia during its decade of democracy.
Even poor and isolated, Tunisia made bigger strides in inclusion of social minorities than any of these "secular" Arab dictatorships.
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@KarolusWangus
That's actually not true. The US ambassador gave the Iraqi Ba'ath higher ups the impression that the US approved of Iraqi military action.
Either way, that does not justify destroying infr worth 100s of billions and enforcing a blockade that lead to near famine.
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This guy is a Polish Catholic commenting on Arab politics.
The region is not an abstraction for you to project your fantasies of racialised sectarian violence.
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Brianna Wu perfectly encapsulates the entitlement Americans have vis-a-vis asserting themselves as authorities who "tells the harsh truth" to those savage natives.
As expected, her comment is filled with awful analysis and factual errors left and right.
For peace to happen, you need to accept the truth. Palestinians lost a war they started in 1948. It wasn’t land theft, they tried to genocide their Jewish neighbors and lost. War leads to tragedy, so it’s unwise to start them.
The other truth is, Palestinians will never defeat
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A must-read on Libya during the darkest chapter of Italian rule.
From 1929-1934, we saw the systemic destruction of Barqa society.
80,000 people were forced on death marches across mountains and vast desert to be imured in concentration camps that turned into death camps.
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Celebrating Ataturk is no different from celebrating Saddam, to he frank.
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Palestine and Lebanon have to the eternal shame of Arabs at large been been abandoned to death and destruction.
This should make any apologia and loyalism to the regimes in Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, KSA, etc, utterly indefensible.
I can confirm that this is the sentiment shared among the majority of Gazans I spoke to
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It will never not be absurd how the Arab states labelled "moderate Sunni" states by Western commentariat are the ones that have spread the most vile sectarianism against Arab religious minorities like Catholics. Orthodox, Shi'ites, Druze, Sufis, and even the remaining Jews, etc.
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@labsurde__
Arafat is a tragic figure. He was always more progressive than the Arab dictators backing him, and in the end, the side that won (the monarchies) completely abandoned the Palestinians when there was no incentive anymore.
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@matthew_petti
The Saudi military was always just a glorified praetorian guard. It is not a serious fighting force.
With the exception of Algeria, and maybe Egypt, every Arab military is a glorified praetorian guard.
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@sthoeseph
Pretty much every male celebrity with a tan, dark hair and prominent cheekbones.
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@Historycourses
The Gulf monarchies are products of US policy. They buy US weapons and make sure to keep the oil and oil revenues flowing out from the region.
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Phoenecianism is the most silly nationalism out there.
It would be akin to some Etruscan revivalist movement in northern Italy
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The irony of westerners living and working in the UAE while talking about the lack of democratisation in the Arab region without mentioning the UAE's role in it is not an apolitical statement.
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@Triops222
@YuleGoat
Lol, the majority of Germans don't have blonde hair.
Not even the majority of Scandinavians have blonde hair.
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Ranking Arab countries from best to worst.
Sudan
Libya
Western Sahara
Iraq
Algeria
Yemen
Palestine
Syria
Bahrain
Morocco
Mauritania
Egypt
Jordan
Oman
Tunisia
Kuwait
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Lebanon
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The American liberal ideal of the Arab region (& Mena as a whole) is every country run by authoritarian "liberals," walkable cities, and a local iteration of schengen where Israelis can travel freely in the region.
There is no concern for the democratic aspirations of the people.
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If this guy knew the first thing about agriculture, he'd know that tropics are not the ideal place to cultivate crops.
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We all know that Canada and the UK are the Kahanist and Salafist centres, respectively — but an overlooked place for diaspora brainrot is Australia.
Many of the extreme Arab sectarian accounts are Australians.
What is it with Anglos and fostering identitarian religious crazies?
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A great majority of "serious" people who claim to support a 2SS are in denial of their opposition to it.
Every Palestinian turning into Ahmed Fouad al-Khatib won't change that.
“If the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. sets aside its campaign to delegitimize Israel … it can find reliable allies in the mainstream of American politics to support a future of peace and coexistence,”
@arash_tehran
writes:
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@teknokrat__
It is crazy. The cult of personality around him is only rivalled by the one Americans have to their founding fathers.
I also can't state enough how unimpressive Ataturk was.
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Saudi Arabia is a hollow state and US colony, after all. So is every Gulf state.
They should not be viewed as independent countries.
Interestingly enough, Iraq is still the only Arab country to develop a successful drone programme, and it was dissolved in 2003.
One mystery is why Saudi Arabia never invested in developing an advanced drone program or even capable air force. Their military expenditures are among top globally and they have ample cooperation with the U.S. for training. The net result however is no security independence.
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It would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing that the Gulf monarchies have — with their superpower patron — worked tirelessly to destroy every Arab cosmopolitan centre just for them to suck up what's left of it and corrupt it in their megalomaniacal mega project cities.
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Putting aside how the majority of Arab Americans are not Muslims, what he is also doing tacitly is equating Arab with Muslim.
He is essentially arguing against the notion of solidarity beyond sect, or that Arabs are incapable of doing such.
The media narrative that the Muslims are this huge voting bloc in Michigan is just not supported by the data.
Illinois is 3.7% Muslims.
New York is 3.6%
New Jersey - 3.5%
Maryland - 3.1%
Then Michigan at 2.4%
There may be ~100K Muslims voters in the state.
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This is how 19th-century anthropologists wrote about Congolese people in order to downplay their own barbarism.
There is something so incredibly primal about the Middle East. When I read documents from the Bronze Age, kings will talk about ending their rivals bloodlines. That is basically what Israel has done here.
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What if I told you that "genetics" don't inform ethnic identity, nor "indigeneity"
Btw, those Levantine Christians and Druze are also Arabs.
The true indigenous people of the Holy Land are the Levantine Christians (and to some extent Samaritans and Druze) but y’all ain’t ready for that conversation.
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The Arab world under the "Gulf moment" has led to several civil wars, two genocides, and a dozen+ countries on the brink of economic implosion.
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This tweet is not about actual ethnic minorities like Amazigh or Assyrians.
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@Lowkey0nline
Omanis should protest against their sultan if they want foreign troops gone, for the monarchy invited them in.
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@thucydiplease
@Western_Trad
The funny thing is that the Romans saw the gauls and germanics as subhumans.
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The Saudi insistence on developing Riyadh (on tribal grounds) over focusing on the coastal cities and the cities of Hijaz is baffling, but not when you consider the main constituency for the royal family is in Riyad [where they are from]
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Many people seem to believe that it was Arabic and Islam that made all the different languages and religions of the Levant disappear.
Many of the languages and pegan religions disappeared with the widespread adoption of Christianity and with Aramean becoming the lingua franca.
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This is what "Vision 2030" is. It is reckless spending caused by a desperate attempt at scrambling to diversify the economy because the Saudi political economy is no longer sustainable.
Amid increasing public spending, Saudi is hitting three-year low in oil revenues
When Saudi used to earn $1bn a day two years ago, it is only $600 million a day today
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Rashida Tlaib is one of the few US politicians who are consistent with her values and beliefs vis-a-vis democracy and human rights.
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There is a very real debate to be had about how Gaddafi was removed and the role NATO in the violent uprooting of his regime and subsequent rise of Haftar has contributed to Libyan state failure — but there is no doubt Gaddafi like King Idriss was deeply unpopular.
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Short thread.
Even though the UAE-KSA counter revolution has been successful in turning back the Arab Spring, we are still back to the status quo of 90 percent of people being fundamentally unhappy about the system.
These current dictatorships are also a lot more volatile.
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@ViktorNaumenk99
There is this oriental notion that all Arabs wear jallabiyas or thobes.
The Arab world has gotten a lot more conservative in recent decades due to the collapse of left-wing elements and Saudi trillions for a region wide social transformation.
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Fantasising about killing Arabs is half these guys' beliefs.
Imagine the brutal realities of urban warfare in there 😍
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You've spent the last year rationalising every single crime the Israeli state has enacted against Palestinians.
Your views are abominable, and you should get a real job instead of debasing yourself for money from a far right billionaire.
The PFLP is disgusting. Literal Leninist tankie terrorist group that carried out the Lod Airport Massacre. So progressive bro.
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@still_oppressed
These are the same people who'd think the Iraq invasion was good after seeing some US cafe brand in an uscpale part of Baghdad attended by women who don't wear hijab.
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My heart bleeds for Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Sudan... the list of Arab countries suffering seems almost endless now.
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The funny thing about Arab monarchs touting the "Chinese model" as an alternative to democracy is that the "Chinese model" involved killing their feudal elite and tearing down all that came previously. I guess they missed that part.
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It is interesting how there is so much anti-Indian racism from Arabs (and vice versa to a lesser extent), yet there is also a lot of cross-cultural exchange in terms of music and cinema. More so than between most other places, especially with the scale of it due to population.
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For how much people like to throw around the "Arabised" label, it makes the least sense for the Levant since northern Hijaz and the Levant are where the oldest Arabic traces have been found — much older than anything from the Gulf or Yemen.
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Short thread.
The US management of Iraq was so destructive that it led to the rise of genocidal death cult. This can't be overstated enough.
@ArmandDoma
Invading Iraq was a huge success. We turned a possible Iran/NK 3.0 into a shaky ally that has beat off successive civil wars to protect its democracy. It will be the South Korea of the Middle East in the end, which famously had a lot of issues in the 50s-90s.
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Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf monarchies are just US colonies, which is why the US fosters them and provides them with security.
There is also how the Gulf provided funding to extremist elements across the region for decades.
These are the basic realities of the region.
@fath0039
A failed tactic attempts to blame and demonize Nejdis/Gfies/Saudis by spreading delusional propaganda misaligned with history or reality.
Arabic-speaking secularists often link Arab nationalism to Islam, the Arab Spring, anti-Arab bigotry, Western and Israeli humiliation of
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The profile of Haniyah is not a moral one.
Also, the glamorous profiles of Benny Gantz in Western media should make you want to throw up if you're at all consistent.
Calling a terrorist who dedicated their life to killing Jewish people and trying to eradicate an entire state “moderate and pragmatic” is so disgustingly offensive I don’t even know where to begin
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I don't think most western commentators understand how much anger at Israel and the US there is among Arabs.
When these client regimes fall, the governments will be radical but not how most would expect.
Even if democratic, they'd still he staunchly independent and anti-Israel.
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The reason I'm against religious identitarianism is because I'm the product of interfaith marriage, and I have many Muslim and Christian relatives of different sects and Jewish relatives.
My family is multi religious.
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The people with the most warped, orientalist view of Arabs are Pakistani Islamists, Kemalists, and Western Chauvinist — their conclusions are all different, but their view of Arabs are the same.
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I find Americans who mock the notion of Pan-Arabism to be odd since the concept of the US is a lot more out there and silly than a notion of a Pan-Arab state.
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@LalehKhalili
This guy is the perfect example of the Israeli cult of victory and beating the enemy into submission.
He's too much of a sociopath to even do the shoot and cry thing.
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@Seamus_Malek
His constant apologia for Israel is also strange. How is it at all compatible with his communism?
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@still_oppressed
Nor was his regime that secular and progressive. It was honestly less secular and progressive than neighbouring Iraq.
I don't get why people have such a warped view of the Shah's Iran.
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@EmissaryOfNight
@tamars
was right when she said that Israel needs the Palestinians to save them from themselves, with regards to one-man-one-vote.
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Mecca is not in the middle of a desert.
It is not that far from the Red Sea.
Interior Arab cities are always located next to fertile farmland if they are not at the coast.
The fact we have a major religion where everyone has to travel to the middle of the desert to go to a city that looks like this to touch a meteorite is sooooooo cool, its so sci-fi i love it
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Congo's problems are plentiful, but they go back to the weak central government and perpetual external interference.
A lot of this is the result of Cold War policies.
These guys are shockingly ignorant about the effects of the Cold War on the majority of the world.
The Congo's problem is that their mines aren't capitalist enough and a majority of their mining is small-scale and labor intensive
If their mines were run by major companies instead of kleptocratic politicians and poor people in villages, they'd use machines instead of children
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Only in Mena can US officials live out their cold war fantasies, their biblical epic fantasies, and their scramble for Africa fantasies.
In Mena, you can be Jason Bourne, Lawrence of Arabia, and Charlton Heston from The Ten Comandments.
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The whole argument of the Abraham Accords being a bulwark against Iran also ends up promoting the notion that Arab Shi'ites are a fifth column and should be treated as such.
This is a deeply concerning notion that targets 10s of millions of Arabs.
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The Ottomans already had a professional bureaucracy, institutions, and functioning parliament before WW1.
Ataturk took the corpse of what had been the Ottoman state and transformed it into a modern entity with a professional bureaucracy, a subordinated religious establishment, an industrializing economy, mass literacy, etc. He even achieved good relations with Turkey’s neighbors!
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The idea that what was done to Lebanon gained Israel the admiration of 100s of millions in the Maghreb, Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, etc. is insane.
Israel's daring attacks against Iran and its proxies are gaining her public support, particularly among Sunni Arabs, like NEVER BEFORE.
Yet Netanyahu is clearly not interested in leveraging that: our neighbors who are not today's enemies are tomorrow's enemies.
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Does this guy think he is narrating some Planet Earth documentary or something because this is some of the most racist stuff I've ever read.
Let me tell you something no one else will. What Israel did today is EXACTLY how you win Arabs over.
You surprise, scare and impress them, and they'll be on your side. Power appeals to them. Appeasement, however, gets you nothing but contempt and disrespect, which is why the US
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I've read medieval primary sources with greater nuance than this tweet.
Twitter intelligentsia is devolving into into pre-medieval levels of societal understanding.
Egypt has over 100 million people. What perplexes me is… what do they all do? They can’t all give tours of the pyramids, or weave bedsheets. I truly don’t get how a couple of free pita breads a day yields that many people. What is their economy based on? How do they keep going?
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The 1950s called. They want their political science theory back.
@fath0039
You are wrong again.
There is a Western civilization. It refers to a shared heritage of Greco-Roman, Christian, & Enlightenment values that have shaped Europe & the Americas. These regions have common philosophical, political, and cultural traditions that define the "West."
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Even by 2014, Ariel Sharon was seen as a controversial enough figure for most democrats to not want much to do with him.
RIP Ariel Sharon. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and the people of Israel.
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Bad Middle East Takes is an account first and foremost for people who are not from the region nor are familiar with its cultures and languages.
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@aphexurbanite
By Arabs in general and all the countries that advocated for the lifting of the blockade through the 1990s and 2000s.
You just happen to believe Iraqis are subhuman.
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The whole Phoenician debates become even sillier than it is when you realise Phoenician is just an exonymous umbrella term for all the different people groups who lived in the Levant at the time, Arabs being one of those groups.
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@xqq437
@MMarcoAJ1
It was caused due to bombings of hospitals, roads, water filtration, power stations, ports, gas fields, steel plants, automotive plants, process plants, irrigation, etc, and then enforcing a blockade that prevented large scale reconstruction.
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@ellesammons
@keewa
IQ means nothing, I was able to raise my iq by 30+ points by just practicing them.
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I still believe people today think this guy was classy and glamorous.
He can only appear that in comparison to Sisi, who screams new money trash as much as Dubai.
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