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I do enjoy the hypocrisy of Western leaders, they aren’t even tacit about it anymore, and the public evidently are so propagandized as to justify genocide even when they think they oppose it.
I do enjoy the hypocrisy of Western leaders, they aren’t even tacit about it anymore, and the public evidently are so propagandized as to justify genocide even when they think they oppose it.
The line is a bit more blurry on the East side than the West but this might just be my own bias coming from Lebanon.
I always thought Urban Hejaz and the Levant [and Egypt] share in a dialect continuum or at least a sprachbund, I don’t know a lot of dialects that say مرق to mean pass except those two. Urban Hejazi dialects also drop the use of interdentals like in Lebanese. In the same way Bahrani dialect Bahrain/Eastern Saudi Arabia shares with Mesopotamia in having Akkadian and Aramaic influences.
Here’s a fun comparison between Hejazi and Najdi dialects https://youtube.com/shorts/Fi9_bNiazOA
More aggressive in tone on average.
Only the Bedouin and Najdi dialects which happen to be over represented. Jeddawi in particular and other Urban Hejazi dialects are seen as effeminate https://youtu.be/AHWbA0b9bK4
I’m simply stating the facts as they are, it is not my fault that the Democratic Party lost Arab and Muslim American voters.
but I am absolutely willing to put off Palestine
How would this argument win over Arab and Muslim Americans? You are basically saying: “I don’t care if you get genocided but you have to care about me”. On the upside as the polls show, Trump is even more unpopular than Biden so you can’t blame us if Trump wins, blame those who voted for him.
so I dont get shot
Arab and Muslim Americans are already getting shot. My personal recommendation is start exercising your 2nd amendment rights:
so you dont get deported
So be it but only if Darrell Issa is deported first
Biden perhaps shouldn’t have enabled a genocide, just saying.
Also the correct term is Arab Americans
How Arab American voters’ backlash could imperil Biden’s 2024 campaign
In Michigan, for example, Biden won in 2020 by 154,000 votes. Census estimates put the state’s Arab American population around at least 278,000.
Biden won Arizona by 10,500 votes. The Arab American population in the Grand Canyon State is estimated to be 60,000.
Biden took Georgia by 11,800 votes. The Arab American population there is at least 57,000.
Inside Biden’s Broken Relationship With Muslim and Arab American Leaders
Biden losing Arab-American voters in swing state
‘The man broke my heart’: Biden’s Arab-American boosters begin to leave his side
The fact that liberals would rather strawperson Arab and Muslim Americans and anyone else repulsed by the genocide than acknowledge the reality and try to stop it is hard to understand beyond it being based in racism and chauvinism. What group of people would vote for the person enabling their own genocide?
Edit: While Marxist-Leninists, i.e. Tankies, do exist in the US they never constituted a significant voting bloc that can sway elections, they always opposed the Democratic Party even before the genocide. Minorities such as Arab Americans -mostly Christian- and Muslim Americans do constitute a significant voting bloc that can sway elections and they used to be a consistent voter base for the Democratic Party in past elections.
In Michigan, Muslim and Arab American Voters Reconsider Support for Biden
The dismissive racism and genocide apologia by liberals is going to cost you Arab and Muslim Americans for more than one election cycle. I wish you had some self awareness and empathy to realize it.
Final Note: This is not meant to elicit debate and I don’t need an explanation on how elections work in the US or why the US will support Israel no matter what it does regardless of who is president. I am just sharing another side of the story that seem to be purposefully ignored.
I cited agreeable news source and articles and yet this comment is getting downvoted. I guess liberals would rather invent a strawperson they can easily take down than acknowledge they are losing among minorities in swing states.
Just look at the number of voters considering third party candidates:
Exclusive poll: Black voters aren’t thrilled with Biden but dislike Trump more
Brought to you by the only* democracy in the Middle East. If Israel is truly a democracy doesn’t mean the people voted for genocide?
* not actually true
the Sahel countries too have a significant Arab minority but aren’t part of the Arab League and not included in this map.
The highest point in Europe is actually in Asia, interesting…
No, the US has been an empire from the start. Unless you don’t count conquering and colonizing the indigenous peoples because they aren’t “civilized” or something.
The US is the biggest producer now ahead of Russia and Saudi Arabia, Venezuela is at 21st. This post is about future production expansion.
I didn’t notice, good catch. I wonder if it is an aliasing/resolution issue.
Not sure what you are trying to say. Anyways, we are seeing progress in science and technology happening again because of the availability of capital and investments.
This map is about future oil and gas expansion. You can see the list of countries by past and present coal production here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_production
The US is also the biggest consumer ahead of China.
No one minds you voting for Biden believe it or not. We do mind being demonized and straw-personed for not voting for him.
Yet more progressive than many US states on things like abortion and divorce.
Sherine Hamdy, a professor of Muslim bioethics at the University of California, Irvine, notes that for Muslim women, the U.S. anti-abortion trends are worrying not only because they harm women’s rights to reproductive agency, but also because they diminish religious freedoms, since Muslim religious ethics make a strong case for women’s well-being taking priority over that of the fetus. [emphasis mine]
This means that Americans in states that effectively outlaw abortion, including Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, will have fewer human rights protections than those in Iran or Saudi Arabia—countries that are often vilified by politicians across the ideological spectrum for their treatment of women. Iran, for example, allows abortion in cases of fetal impairment, and Saudi Arabia allows for abortion when the health of a patient is at risk—including mental health, which can function to allow for abortion in cases of rape or incest—contrary to only the narrow “life” or “medical emergency” exceptions that are now increasingly common in state bans in the United States. [emphasis mine]
A material analysis explains it. The Middle East gradually became poorer and the local governments couldn’t support and promote science anymore. Why they became poorer? Perhaps European colonialism had something to do with it, as it circumvented Middle Eastern trade routes.
The massacres Italians committed in Libya and Ethiopia were the model that inspired Nazi Germany.
Why are they dropping bombs that take out entire blocks though? They aren’t even being precise about it. It is not like they have hidden their genocidal intents.
“The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” – Daniel Hagari
“We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly” – Yoav Gallant
Just a few of many quotes that reveal their intents and yet here you are defending genocide.