Anonymous wrote:Why can’t we just stick to topic of thread, and discuss the war??
Hard to talk about the war without discussing why we're in it, and who is preventing us from getting out of it.
Trump and trump. Ok done. Can we get back to war updates?
If you want to argue about Zionism, maybe start a different thread?
dp - Absolutely Trump, and absolutely Netanyahu and Zionists. You distill it only to Trump when the only people who support this are Israel-aligned.
^^ dp - Absolutely Trump, and absolutely Netanyahu and Zionists. You *cannot* distill it only to Trump when the only people who support this are Israel-aligned.
Anonymous wrote:So ridiculous. Google shows once again what a shill zionist outfit they are. They allow all the screeching zionist banshees spewing genocidal proclamations but they take down a channel that makes political cartoons. YT also has been demonetizing for years videos critical of Israel and Epstein, so much so that people have had to use coded words.
Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
"Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies," a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
"YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community."
Explosive Media's content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
YouTube did not specify how the channel had violated its policies, but the company has previously been described as being "aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps".
Oh, I'm sorry. I can't imagine why an American company would decide to ban propaganda coming from accounts aligned with terrorist states. You must be so very disappointed. Do you think you can get your fill of terrorism propaganda elsewhere? Sure hope so.
Anonymous wrote:So ridiculous. Google shows once again what a shill zionist outfit they are. They allow all the screeching zionist banshees spewing genocidal proclamations but they take down a channel that makes political cartoons. YT also has been demonetizing for years videos critical of Israel and Epstein, so much so that people have had to use coded words.
Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
"Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies," a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
"YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community."
Explosive Media's content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
YouTube did not specify how the channel had violated its policies, but the company has previously been described as being "aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps".
Oh, I'm sorry. I can't imagine why an American company would decide to ban propaganda coming from accounts aligned with terrorist states. You must be so very disappointed. Do you think you can get your fill of terrorism propaganda elsewhere? Sure hope so.
They just chose one group of terrorists over the other, just like you. Clearly the channel was popular enough that it had to be censored so the information will flow.
Anonymous wrote:he Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
1 - The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
2 - The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. But Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
3- The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
Excellent analysis. (which in no way justifies Israeli conduct but explains how the US left has been thoroughly duped and even willingly led into it through the exploitation of antisemitic tropes.)
This is not analysis. It is propaganda. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the ME would strongly disagree with this sh#t. The problem is Israel.
If you can't define the words shia and sunni without looking, your ignorant opinion isn't interesting.
Dp. I’m a Sunni and I have theological issues with twelver Shiism.
I agree with the PP that the post was propaganda and that Israel is the problem.
DP here and as someone very well aware of the Sunni vs Shia debate in that region, the post was propaganda and completely absolved Israel of causing havoc in the Middle East. Israel is just frustrated it can no longer play the Sunni vs Shia card and that the people in the Middle
East are moving past the theological differences and emphasizing the need for cooperation.
That post didn’t absolve Israel of anything. It just pointed out a basic fact that everyone whose mind is not totally clouded by anti-semitism and/or TikTok foreign affairs influencers understands … that Iran is broadly hated in the ME.
So is Israel. At the moment, Iran is a more rational actor (I can't believe I am typing that) who is not in the middle of committing genocide, so why should anyone put the interests of Israel above their own, or that of Iran, for that matter.?
Iran has been the rational actor for years. They only respond to Israel’s and US’s aggression. You know how many proxies both Israel and US arm and let loose on Iran?
Apparently, you two geniuses are able to selectively "forget" the thousands of Iranian citizens who were recently murdered by the regime. Oh, and the three men who were hanged but had committed no crime. But yes - so rational, so moral.
You mean where Trump openly-admitted they sent weapons to protesters and that Mossad/israel admits to having agitators on the ground?
Can your stupid a$$ explain how it is that over a two year period and using the equivalent of 6 Nukes in Gaza which is far smaller than Iran, Israel killed "70,000," but Iran --from the ground in like two days---killed 40, 000? Explain how your brain processes such absolute rot.
Wow, you're charming. I never said "40,000" - YOU did. I said "thousands," which is absolutely accurate and was even reported as such by the Iranians. So take it up with your buddies, the IRGC.
Two informed sources from the Supreme National Security Council also told Iran International that in two recent reports by the IRGC Intelligence Organization, dated January 22 and January 24, the number of those killed was listed as more than 33,000 and more than 36,500 respectively. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
Anonymous wrote:he Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
1 - The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
2 - The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. But Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
3- The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
Excellent analysis. (which in no way justifies Israeli conduct but explains how the US left has been thoroughly duped and even willingly led into it through the exploitation of antisemitic tropes.)
This is not analysis. It is propaganda. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the ME would strongly disagree with this sh#t. The problem is Israel.
If you can't define the words shia and sunni without looking, your ignorant opinion isn't interesting.
Dp. I’m a Sunni and I have theological issues with twelver Shiism.
I agree with the PP that the post was propaganda and that Israel is the problem.
DP here and as someone very well aware of the Sunni vs Shia debate in that region, the post was propaganda and completely absolved Israel of causing havoc in the Middle East. Israel is just frustrated it can no longer play the Sunni vs Shia card and that the people in the Middle
East are moving past the theological differences and emphasizing the need for cooperation.
That post didn’t absolve Israel of anything. It just pointed out a basic fact that everyone whose mind is not totally clouded by anti-semitism and/or TikTok foreign affairs influencers understands … that Iran is broadly hated in the ME.
So is Israel. At the moment, Iran is a more rational actor (I can't believe I am typing that) who is not in the middle of committing genocide, so why should anyone put the interests of Israel above their own, or that of Iran, for that matter.?
Iran has been the rational actor for years. They only respond to Israel’s and US’s aggression. You know how many proxies both Israel and US arm and let loose on Iran?
Apparently, you two geniuses are able to selectively "forget" the thousands of Iranian citizens who were recently murdered by the regime. Oh, and the three men who were hanged but had committed no crime. But yes - so rational, so moral.
You mean where Trump openly-admitted they sent weapons to protesters and that Mossad/israel admits to having agitators on the ground?
Can your stupid a$$ explain how it is that over a two year period and using the equivalent of 6 Nukes in Gaza which is far smaller than Iran, Israel killed "70,000," but Iran --from the ground in like two days---killed 40, 000? Explain how your brain processes such absolute rot.
Wow, you're charming. I never said "40,000" - YOU did. I said "thousands," which is absolutely accurate and was even reported as such by the Iranians. So take it up with your buddies, the IRGC.
Two informed sources from the Supreme National Security Council also told Iran International that in two recent reports by the IRGC Intelligence Organization, dated January 22 and January 24, the number of those killed was listed as more than 33,000 and more than 36,500 respectively. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
You are not quoting your own sources accurately because that article doesn’t confirm your claims. Iran International is jot exactly an unbiased news source.
Anonymous wrote:Why can’t we just stick to topic of thread, and discuss the war??
Hard to talk about the war without discussing why we're in it, and who is preventing us from getting out of it.
Trump and trump. Ok done. Can we get back to war updates?
If you want to argue about Zionism, maybe start a different thread?
No, it doesn't work like that.
MARCO RUBIO ADMITTED WHY THE US DID IT. NETANYAHU AND MOSSAD WERE *ALLOWED* TO PRESENT SOME GARBAGE PRESENTATION TO TRUMP. TRUMP'S OWN INTELLIGENCE TOLD HIM IRAN WAS NO THREAT TO AMERICA. KUSHNER AND WITKOFF BEING SENT AS *AMERICAN* NEGOTIATORS WHEN WE ALL KNOW THEIR ACTUAL ALLEGIANCE, IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE.
SO *ZIONISM* IS PRECISELY WHY ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING.
Anonymous wrote:So ridiculous. Google shows once again what a shill zionist outfit they are. They allow all the screeching zionist banshees spewing genocidal proclamations but they take down a channel that makes political cartoons. YT also has been demonetizing for years videos critical of Israel and Epstein, so much so that people have had to use coded words.
Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
"Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies," a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
"YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community."
Explosive Media's content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
YouTube did not specify how the channel had violated its policies, but the company has previously been described as being "aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps".
Oh, I'm sorry. I can't imagine why an American company would decide to ban propaganda coming from accounts aligned with terrorist states. You must be so very disappointed. Do you think you can get your fill of terrorism propaganda elsewhere? Sure hope so.
It doesn't count as an "American" company when rabid Zionists who went to Epstein Island are at the helm and make crystal clear what their biases are, lightweight.
Anonymous wrote:Why can’t we just stick to topic of thread, and discuss the war??
Hard to talk about the war without discussing why we're in it, and who is preventing us from getting out of it.
Trump and trump. Ok done. Can we get back to war updates?
If you want to argue about Zionism, maybe start a different thread?
No, it doesn't work like that.
MARCO RUBIO ADMITTED WHY THE US DID IT. NETANYAHU AND MOSSAD WERE *ALLOWED* TO PRESENT SOME GARBAGE PRESENTATION TO TRUMP. TRUMP'S OWN INTELLIGENCE TOLD HIM IRAN WAS NO THREAT TO AMERICA. KUSHNER AND WITKOFF BEING SENT AS *AMERICAN* NEGOTIATORS WHEN WE ALL KNOW THEIR ACTUAL ALLEGIANCE, IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE.
SO *ZIONISM* IS PRECISELY WHY ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING.
Maybe you're right, but it doesn't fully capture what is happening. We have an extremely competent military in some ways, a horrifically expensive and wasteful one in others, and most people can't make sense of its capabilities.
It is going to get used. "leaders" can't help themselves.
Anonymous wrote:he Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
1 - The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
2 - The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. But Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
3- The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
Excellent analysis. (which in no way justifies Israeli conduct but explains how the US left has been thoroughly duped and even willingly led into it through the exploitation of antisemitic tropes.)
This is not analysis. It is propaganda. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the ME would strongly disagree with this sh#t. The problem is Israel.
If you can't define the words shia and sunni without looking, your ignorant opinion isn't interesting.
Dp. I’m a Sunni and I have theological issues with twelver Shiism.
I agree with the PP that the post was propaganda and that Israel is the problem.
DP here and as someone very well aware of the Sunni vs Shia debate in that region, the post was propaganda and completely absolved Israel of causing havoc in the Middle East. Israel is just frustrated it can no longer play the Sunni vs Shia card and that the people in the Middle
East are moving past the theological differences and emphasizing the need for cooperation.
That post didn’t absolve Israel of anything. It just pointed out a basic fact that everyone whose mind is not totally clouded by anti-semitism and/or TikTok foreign affairs influencers understands … that Iran is broadly hated in the ME.
So is Israel. At the moment, Iran is a more rational actor (I can't believe I am typing that) who is not in the middle of committing genocide, so why should anyone put the interests of Israel above their own, or that of Iran, for that matter.?
Iran has been the rational actor for years. They only respond to Israel’s and US’s aggression. You know how many proxies both Israel and US arm and let loose on Iran?
Apparently, you two geniuses are able to selectively "forget" the thousands of Iranian citizens who were recently murdered by the regime. Oh, and the three men who were hanged but had committed no crime. But yes - so rational, so moral.
You mean where Trump openly-admitted they sent weapons to protesters and that Mossad/israel admits to having agitators on the ground?
Can your stupid a$$ explain how it is that over a two year period and using the equivalent of 6 Nukes in Gaza which is far smaller than Iran, Israel killed "70,000," but Iran --from the ground in like two days---killed 40, 000? Explain how your brain processes such absolute rot.
Always amusing how Zionists suddenly pretend to be concerned about human life when they love slaughtering Palestinians and Lebanese to the tune of hundreds of thousands along with bombing Iranians and their civilian infrastructure . They are ethnosupremicists where all other lives are beneath them.
My absolute favorite Zionists/defenders of slaughter in the Middle East as a whole, are the ones who want to cheapen the lives of every Palestinian, Iranian, Lebanese, IRAQI, etc., by being extra racist (Bill Maher) and try to justify the slaughter by telling you "They all want to throw gay people off of the roof," so it's perfectly fine to kill all of the "savages."
Now imagine we did that to Jews who were killed during the Holocaust. How are we to know there weren't rapists, homophobes, pedophiles, wife beaters, thieves, etc.? Are we just to assume every single one was a precious unicorn? See how that sounds? That's how repugnant Zionism has always been.
Wow, you have zero self-awareness. The same argument could be made for the Palestinians you're always going on about, or really, any Muslim anywhere. You seem to want people to believe that they're all "precious unicorns," that Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. simply don't exist - or if they do, they're the good guys!! It's comical the way you excuse their atrocities, along with those of the Iranian regime and expect people to sympathize with each and every one of them, to include the TERRORISTS.
You can hate on Israel all you want, but don't you dare expect anyone to have sympathy for the Islamic extremists you choose to champion. And Bill Maher? He is SPOT ON. It is you and your unhinged pro-Iranian stooges who are truly repugnant.
Anonymous wrote:So ridiculous. Google shows once again what a shill zionist outfit they are. They allow all the screeching zionist banshees spewing genocidal proclamations but they take down a channel that makes political cartoons. YT also has been demonetizing for years videos critical of Israel and Epstein, so much so that people have had to use coded words.
Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
"Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies," a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
"YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community."
Explosive Media's content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
YouTube did not specify how the channel had violated its policies, but the company has previously been described as being "aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps".
Oh, I'm sorry. I can't imagine why an American company would decide to ban propaganda coming from accounts aligned with terrorist states. You must be so very disappointed. Do you think you can get your fill of terrorism propaganda elsewhere? Sure hope so.
An American company? GTFO. They have over $100B in cash offshore because they don't want to pay American taxes that would benefit the American people. It's a MNC that only chooses US protections when it benefits them. It's an H1B mill.
Anonymous wrote:he Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
1 - The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
2 - The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. But Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
3- The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
Excellent analysis. (which in no way justifies Israeli conduct but explains how the US left has been thoroughly duped and even willingly led into it through the exploitation of antisemitic tropes.)
This is not analysis. It is propaganda. Anyone who has a basic understanding of the ME would strongly disagree with this sh#t. The problem is Israel.
If you can't define the words shia and sunni without looking, your ignorant opinion isn't interesting.
Dp. I’m a Sunni and I have theological issues with twelver Shiism.
I agree with the PP that the post was propaganda and that Israel is the problem.
DP here and as someone very well aware of the Sunni vs Shia debate in that region, the post was propaganda and completely absolved Israel of causing havoc in the Middle East. Israel is just frustrated it can no longer play the Sunni vs Shia card and that the people in the Middle
East are moving past the theological differences and emphasizing the need for cooperation.
That post didn’t absolve Israel of anything. It just pointed out a basic fact that everyone whose mind is not totally clouded by anti-semitism and/or TikTok foreign affairs influencers understands … that Iran is broadly hated in the ME.
Give it a rest, you amateur. Outside of the CORRUPT LEADERS who are all servile dogs of Isr whether paid to play nice w/ isr and turn against their brethren who are being slaughtered by isr (Jordan/Pakistan/Egypt) or even more pathetic, PAY to be servile losers (Gulf states), the majority of SUNNI Muslims are absolutely rooting for Iran.
And it's so ludicrous you condescendingly mention "TikTok influencers" as if "thinktanker" ZJs like Richard Haass and every other warmongering, decrepit, bloodthirsty loser like him who never saw bloodshed in the ME that didn't get them hard, have credibility on this subject. We've had to sit through years of racist, supremacist, Z monsters from these disgusting, Israel-First thinktanks like AEI/Foundation for Def. of Dem/Heritage/ Fed.Soc/blah/blah/blah, be a part of every god-damned roundtable discussion to talk about the MIDDLE EAST/MUSLIMS/ARABS. No one needs to hear the opinions of someone who is literally why the ME is f***ed. It's like inviting on a rapist or friend of a rapist to discuss the victim.
Yeah you sound super credible
The usual unhinged ranter had quite a busy night last night. Or rather, morning in Tehran. What a mess she is.
"Unhinged" would be claiming that an actual photo of an inbred, terrorist beast is "antisemitic." That's what losers you are, LMAO.
The chutzpah to refer to me being "unhinged" when these creatures belong to you:
Israel's finest. I do think it's important for the world to see the 700,000 Israeli colonists who have taken over the West Bank. Not exactly the best and brightest. And coming to southern Lebanon soon. Why Americans accept and normalize Israeli imperialism is a little mystifying.
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It's comical the way you excuse their atrocities, along with those of the Iranian regime and expect people to sympathize with each and every one of them, to include the TERRORISTS.