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Left-liberal, secularist, feminist, pro-tolerance and inclusion in general
Joined September 2015
This should be a good introduction to the different important events of the region, from broad insights into the Arab Cold War to more country focused.
Would people be interested in a reading list on the whole Arab region? From country specific to about the broader region?.
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We are watching the normalisation of terror bombing as an acceptable doctrine.
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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".
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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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One of my craziest interactions with an Israeli was him treating me as subhuman for my Arabic name. He only began to acknowledge my humanity when I mentioned my maternal Jewish side to him. The sudden switch in his perception of me was so obvious.
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It is distasteful and downright offensive to post this propaganda (without context) of one of the worst mass murderours in history.
Benito Mussolini brandishing the "Sword of Islam" near Tripoli, Libya. 1937 🇱🇾
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The Italians were running extermination camps in Libya before the Nazi party was in power. Pictures of forced death marches and the al-Abiyiar concentration camp where thousands were killed
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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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Your average "return to tradition Muslim" diaspora person on here is more socially regressive than the Muslims of al-Andalus 800 years ago, or even other caliphates. Salafism and other legalist Islamic movements are the products of the mid-19th century to mid 20th century.
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When Italy was colonizing Libya, a racial argument made by the Italians was that all the Libyans with the most pale features (blue eyes, blonde hair) were proof of Italian heritage, thus Libya was rightly Italian.
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(1/4) What makes Gaza so truly horrific is that we've not seen this level of impunity and intent on extermination in many decades. The U.S. or Soviet wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan were horrific, killed millions, but these were not wars of extermination.
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If a permanent ceasefire is achieved, it will show how this slavish commitment to the extermination of the Palestinians was a thing uniquely to do with Biden's personal beliefs.
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Concentration camps are not synonymous with the Holocaust. The first use of them the way we imagine them was by the Fascists from 1929 to 1934 in Libya. These camps even had shops and animals like goats and sheeps were allowed in some cases, though none could afford to buy any of
No, it wasn't a “concentration camp.” Anyone who claims it was is either a bigot or lacks knowledge of the horrors of the Holocaust. However, Gaza was an open-air prison. It's also worth noting that our neighborhood was upper-class/upper-middle-class and isn't representative of.
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This is effectively Holocaust denial.
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@omar_dddg Your average westerner turns into an ISIS esque sectarian when it comes to anything related to Arabs across sects trying to get along and foster better ties.
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A lot of people romanticize insurgencies. The Algerian revolution was extremely violent, and to use a failed and extremely violent insurgency was the Libyan one led by Omar al-Mukthar. A third of the Libyan population was killed, and it ended with Libyans put in camps.
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@snarkademic I find it baffling how so many are incapable (or more like unwilling) to confront not only the exploitative nature of it but that it is hypernationalist indoctrination.
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@PhilipProudfoot Besides, it is deeply problematic to romanticize a hollow apartheid state, which Lebanon was back then.
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The Arab world desperately needs a transnational feminist movement.
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@MouinRabbani Blinken was also Biden's foreign policy adviser when Biden proposed partitioning Iraq in 2006.
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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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"Surviving Arabisation" Have you talked to a Syrian Greek Orthodox?. Integration into Arabhood was far more organic/less violent than the most liberal Euro assimilations. The reason why there's so many churches in the region is due to a lack of repression, relatively speaking -.
In present day Syria there are 8000 Greek Muslims who still speak Greek, 1,142,500 Orthodox Greeks, and 118,000 to 240,000 Catholic Greeks. Greeks are still very much in Syria to this day surviving Arabisation. More awareness is needed!.🇬🇷🇸🇾✝️☦️.#GreeksOfSyria.#Rûmsolidarity
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This is what IDF personnel did when they entered the home of a Palestinian family
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Definitely not an endorsement of Nasser but the region has not had this kind of popular appeal since.
Harlem residents welcome Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Fidel Castro in New York. September 18, 1960
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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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Morocco is an authoritarian police state where 20 percent of the population is illiterate. A few factories assembling *European cars* is not an argument for the success of Hassan II totalitarian police state. Morocco has crushing poverty and unsustainable debt. Algeria has its.
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If anyone is wondering why Libyan feminist groups have been sounding the alarm for a decade now.
Breaking | Libyan Minister of Interior: We will impose the hijab, prevent gender mixing, and base our police on the Quran and Sunnah. The Libyan minister announced the activation of the Morality Police—Committee for Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil—on the streets and online,
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The problem with a lot of responses to these ethnicity maps is how almost all the people commenting don't know there is no objective measurement when it comes to these things. It is just vibes, and it always has been so.Tiny ethnic groups like Icelandics or Estonians are no more.
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How does this have anything to do with the "Middle East"? .This is just theology.
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A lot of Arab liberals (excluding the Palestinian Arabs) tacitly believe the Palestinians should be abandoned to genocide: their hope for the region is that U.S. will in cooperation with the GCC let them build a functioning political system and invest in them if they completely.
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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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The weaponization of archaeology to construct a national foundation myth and use it to justify exclusionary nationalism.
Jews had a nation in Israel for millennia, established before Christ. We were expelled + denied access to our ancient sites for generations. Anyone who says the Israeli-Palestinian conflict started in 1948 is deliberately trying to erase history, so it’s easier to lie to you.
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A problem with the "Axis of Submission" is that they believe the U.S. is still willing to offer the same deal it did in the 1970s to Sadat's Egypt but to the tiny Arab countries like Lebanon. The U.S. has no interest in even offering the slightest concessions as we saw with Sudan.
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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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People are justifying warfare so brutal that it is comparable to the Mongol tactics of completely burning down cities and killing almost all their inhabitants through FAFO.
@RyanRozbiani Don't start wars.
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In order to avoid US annexation, Canada and Greenland should join the Arab League. There, they'll experience the meaning of unwavering Arab state support against US aggression 💪.
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Elon Musk is setting up parallel institutions that answer directly to him: he is basically hollowing out the U.S.'s institutions. That has been the kind of policies the U.S. has been actively supporting through a lot of the world, and especially in Mena. The legitimization of.
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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.
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My Jewish family is German and Danish, not Levantine. Ashkenazi Jews are European, the same as Romanis and Hungarians. insisting they are otherwise is deeply racist.
You don’t need to lie about Jewishness to be pro-Palestine. Jews are from the Levant the same way Romani ppl are from Northern India.
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Wtf?.Unlike other parts of the Arab world, there is especially much really gross sexualization and exoticism projected towards Lebanese women. This is such a disgusting and misogynistic tweet.
LEBANESE WOMEN AND THE LEVANTINE ‘HOT WOMEN ZONE’. Some countries you visit and you notice the women there are unusually attractive. Many countries have some attractive women, many more have lots of ugly frog women, very few have large numbers of unusually attractive women. This
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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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You're so comically racist. You don't know the first thing about Libya.
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Ignore her and go read people like Edward Said and Homi Bhabha.
Decolonial ideology is one of the most misguided ideologies, blaming the West for every problem. Anyone living in Middle Eastern societies, where internal dysfunction and gossip cause constant issues, should see through the illusion.
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Because when Israelis proudly chant "death to Arabs" it includes them all, be they Maronite, Copt, Allawi, etc.
@souljagoytellem I can understand why Muslim Arabs in Israel would have mixed loyalties when it comes to the state of Israel. But there's no real reason why Arab Christians in Israel shouldn't have a relationship with the state of Israel like the one the Druze have. Frankly, I don't even know why.
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This is just how integration works. All groups are the product of integration with others. From the largest groups to the smallest. The Franks only arrived in France by roughly the same time the Arabs did much of North Africa. We can make the same exact arguments about Latin and.
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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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I have never seen this much Maghrebi appreciation posting by Mashriqis before.
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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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During the 1960s, when Egypt was backing the independence bid of the FLN, some U.S. citizens were writing letters to JFK about how the U.S. needed to back France for the sake of "Western civilization" against Islam. This kind of sectarianism from the west has always been there.
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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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They made the same argument for the Levant. It was the next goal for Italy in building their Mediterranean empire. There was also made an argument about protecting the Christians (Catholics in particular) of the Levant from the Muslims.
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One of the most visceral books I've ever read, about one of the darkest chapters in the region's history. I can't help but think about Gaza in how we are seeing the exact same thing being perpetrated today
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Your whole shtick is being a sectarian diasporoid who lambasts Arab religious minorities for believing in pluralism while you benefit from it in France, as a minority. Your return to Twitter adds nothing of substance to this site.
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@neomozarab Don't forget decades of U.S. military presence and intel cooperation. These Gulf slave societies only exist because the U.S. has nurtured them for decades.
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(2/4) Even other genocides like the Rwandan one did not enjoy this impunity or overwhelming power over a subject population. Gaza is bringing us back to a world where genocidal conquest and extermination of subject populations is normalized.
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What a loser
“mmmmm the girls are gonna love this”.
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Libya is just an abstraction to be used and discarded by these people. None of these people have uttered a single word for the 20,000+ people who died in Derna.
Syria will turn into another Libya.
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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.
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The Italians described Libya's interior as Italy's frontier because there were too many black people. The Fascists were so racists that they could not acknowledge it as being as part of Italy the same way as the coastal region.
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Why should other victims of genocide care about this specificity?.
Yet Israel haters have successfully coopted the phrase. Now “Never Again For Anyone”, erases the Jewish specificity likens Gazans to Holocaust survivors & Israelis to Nazis. A laughable distortion. “Never Again For Anyone” is a phrase dripping with Jew hatred.
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@heshidicjudaism This makes me wonder how much sympathy the PFLP would have if it was still a prominent force like it used to.
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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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The Israelis are ethnically cleansing Syrians from the "buffer zone" now.
عاجل : قوات الاحتلال الاسرائيلي تجبر اهالي قريتي الحميدية والحرية في ريف القنيطرة على اخلاء منازلهم 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨.
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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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I'm not exaggerating when I say that Antony Blinken is one of the least capable diplomats of his generation. He has failed upwards his entire life. Prior to Gaza, he was most famous for being the architect behind Biden's 2006 Iraq partition and support for the Iraq invasion.
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We talk about the decline of Egypt, but Sisi really is the quintessential post-Arab Spring dictator. An utterly illegitimate dictator who is overseeing a predatory police state with no will or capacity to develop or provide services.
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Yes, North Africa is where most Arabs are and where most of the cultural output also comes from. We in the Maghreb do view ourselves as an intrinsic part of the Arab world, even though we have some unique distinctions.
@fath0039 @AlgeriaBea1 The Arab World's heart is in the least Arab parts of the Arab world? Huh?.
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Not enough people talk about Tunisian democracy. It was before Kais Saied's autogolpe by far the most free Arab country and the most progressive by a distance.
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@sweethartsami There is very much this notion that Arab Muslims, and Arab Muslim men in particular are more permisable to kill.
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(3/4) In Gaza, we are seeing the wholesale rounding up, internment, and now extermination of a subject population. The only comparison is the genocides committed by the Axis powers. This is no different from what the Fascists, Nazis, and Imperial Japanese did.(.
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International law is fake but I still believe the principle of it.
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They are right to be worried. Many Libyan feminists were murdered by Islamists. The most infamous was the murder of human rights lawyer Salwa Bughaighis on June 25th, 2014.
Women are so shameless bruh, they would rather chimp out endlessly about not getting exactly what they want & give the enemies all the propaganda in the world than letting a 13 year long war torn country get settled down.
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The European part of the Mediterranean is so overrated. All the most interesting things are found in the non-European parts.
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If the Gulf monarchies really wanted to stop the genocide in Gaza, they'd threaten to liquidate all their investments in the US. Crashing US tech and the world economy with it if that won't end US support for genocide, then nothing will.
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Would people be interested in a reading list on the whole Arab region? From country specific to about the broader region?.
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This is the most predictable response imaginable from Libyans. Normalization is for a reason impossible with Libya. We are proud of our unwavering position on Palestine.
🚨 #Protests in #Tripoli tonight after ex foreign minister Najla Al-Mangoush said in her Atheer podcast interview that Dbeibah was the one who organized and authorized her meeting with #Israel's ex foreign minister Cohen
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The French infatuation with Maronites never went that deep. It was mostly about spiting the Muslims. It is just an act. Just look at how the French pitted Catholic Maltese and Jews against Muslims in Algeria. It is just an extension of the French obsession with apartheid and.
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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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An account from the Sluq concentration camp in Libya. The policy of extermination was a state policy by Fascists.
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The country Israel can abuse the most is Lebanon (which is effectively a demilitarized statelet). They want every country in the region to be a demilitarized statelet they can freely terror bomb.
@MazMHussain What's the end game here. If they kill al-Sharaa & splinter Syria, won't that just give more power to Turkey (and maybe even give Iran a new chance to rebuild ties to Syrian factions)? What do they hope to achieve?.
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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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A lot of people are talking about Israel as if it's a force of nature and not just a country with an air force and very little strategic depth. This subscription to Israeli "innate superiority" is the hubris that's going to start a regional war.
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(4/4) We are yet to grasp what this fully means, but it is right in front of us to witness.
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"This is war," "FAFO," etc, are just sayings for sadist to justify to themselves how much they like seeing people from a specific group experience large-scale mutilation and murder.
@fath0039 This is called war,,which was started by HAMAS.
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