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It's more complicated than that even. The actual egoist reason why the Egyptian military regime close the Egyptian border is that Egypt do not want to see millions of Palestinians establish camps in the Sinai, in which it already spent much of the 2010s waging a counter-insurgency against Salafist groups. This is particularly true because the main Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian military regime's archenemy.

As such, the Egyptian military regime's decision to close Gaza is partly safeguarding the long-term broader interests of the anti-MB Egypt-Israel duo over the short-termist political games of the ruling clique in Israel, by preventing the establishment of an ikwhani state in Sinai if not Egypt which would be a long-term headache for Israel. In that way it plays a role similar to that of the Jordanian monarchy in Black September or the Maronite nationalists in the Lebanese civil war.

"Why doesn't Egypt take them?"

Why doesn't Israel stop carpet bombing them? Why are you not addressing the literal genocide and skipping to normalising the displacement of Palestinians? Get fucked.

#politics #free palestine #other people's fucking countries

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insane that this discourse has looped around to "one of the most fundamental aspects of MENA political culture ("cultural Islam", so to speak) is culturally Christian so actually my raving hatred of Arabs and Muslims is woke"

Something I really don't understand is this obsession the anti-Israel crowd (in the West) have with death and martyrdom. All they care about is dying, and often killing for their cause; I see nothing about building a better future that isn't based on the murder of 9 million Israelis.

It's easy to die for a cause. The challenge is living to make a better tomorrow.

#like even secular political movements in the region like the pkk or turkish maoists constantly wax lyrical about the blood of the *shaheeds* #racism cw

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The fact that this drivel got a largely positive reception from 10,000 people in 2024 was kinda shocking. I thought this nonsense had started to go away around 2021 or so. But evidently not lol. We’re so fucked.

#my issues with sj let me show you them #... that's a tag I hoped not have to use anymore #true blast from the past #rest in power originates from latino street culture and was used for rachel corrie a white american who died for palestine as early as 2003

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While the trend indeed started with cults like NOI that are theologically completely removed, from the point Malcolm X acrimoniously left NOI and turned toward regular (Sunni) Islam with a left-leaning sensibility, bringing the trend alongside him. Nowadays 20% of Muslim Americans are African-Americans and 3% of African-Americans are Muslims:

I kind of wonder if we are going to see an uptick in conversions to islam among progressives and leftists in the years immediately ahead the same way i noticed a lot of jewish conversions prior to now

Certainly the process is considerably more streamlined, if nothing else

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Iran randomly bombing civilians in Iraq, Pakistan randomly bombing civilians in Iran, Jordan randomly bombing civilians in Syria, apparently no one in the region knows how to send a precision-guided munition of depleted uranium at 9 Smolenski Street, Rehavia, Jerusalem!

@friendshapedhole @collapsedsquid

#politics #war cw #free palestine #free syria #free kurdistan #other people's fucking countries

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colonialism is evil and violent resistance to it is sometimes justified (depending on the boring usual stuff like proportionality, plausible effectiveness, avoiding harm to civilians, trying nonviolent methods first and being willing to switch back to them if your opponents are willing to play ball, and so on) but the whole framing of “national liberation” many category errors and dangerous ideas. maybe nationalism is powerful enough that you “have to” use it, but if so it’s another form of violence that bears its own consequences down the road and needs to be justified. and certainly if you’re just posting from your armchair there’s no need to muddle your thinking by giving nationalism an inch

#endorsed #politics

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funniest thing to come out of Trump's presidency was his letter to Erdogan in the lead-up to Turkey's 2019 invasion of Northeastern Syria

see also: SSC on The Art Of The Deal

Bit of blindness I think on Trump's foreign policy positions that of the same sort that still existed when he was president, "Trump the hawk", "Trump the dove," really Trump's a waverer, a flip-flopper, he goes on about how the foreigners are scum and then announces how great they are now, it allowed to look like a hero when he ended international crises that he himself created. Wavering like that might be worse than being a hawk or a dove honestly.

Don't really have an idea of what he'd do if he had been president during this Palestine flap, his desire to inflict punishment and appear strong would conflict with his fear that it would blow back on him and his desire to not have anyone else tell him what he has to do.

#politics #war cw #genocide cw

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well

that's funny

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#*saddam to rumsfeld* “how did you learn this son” “i learned this from watching you” #politics #neoconservatism #war cw #history side of tumblr

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I think I missed the 1990s Russian civil war. Bolshevik victory obviously increased living standards and life expectancy, one can't say the same about Eltsinite victory.

The ultimate litmus test to see if any so called "anti-capitalist" is actually worth their salt is to ask them one simple question. "How do you feel about the dissolution of the USSR?"

Not "How do you feel about the USSR as a whole?" Not "How do you feel about the idea of bringing back the USSR" Just "How do you feel about its dissolution?"

Because no matter your opinion on the USSR and its legacy as a whole, the dissolution was objectively a disaster for the vast majority of people in the former USSR. Living standards fell, life expectancy fell, poverty skyrocketed. And today things like the Russian-Ukrainian war show that the dissolution of the USSR is still racking up a body count.

If someone can look at all that and conclude that the dissolution of the USSR was good, then they are not "anti-capitalist." That is someone who is so entrenched in anti-communism that they genuinely believe it is better for citizens of former Soviet countries to suffer under oligarchs and neoliberal imperialists. There is no "anti-capitalism" to speak of in their beliefs.

#history side of tumblr

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human pet guy face reveal

#i didn't even know that was biologically possible #he looks like a 19th-century political cartoon of a Whig industrialist lmao #don't read the “blackmail” subsection of lord melbourne's wikipedia article worst error of my life etc

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hot take but I think the state using an AI with an ominous religious name to decide which targets it is going to carpet-bomb is the bad guy in the story

#free palestine #politics #other people's fucking countries #war cw #genocide cw #ai #ai risk

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That's an interesting comparison because the Iraqi insurgency was in fact entirely annihilated by force of arms in Iraq, because they eventually became ISIS, committed several genocides, and every country in the world had to team up to destroy them.

It's not like this international consensus has led to reforms to make Iraq a democratic republic with justice and freedom for all either, it's an Iranian puppet state run by Shia sectarian militias (or de facto independent Kurdistan in the north). The Sunni Arab minority has no effective political representation, but any attempt for it to seize it (in the face of such a regime) would face massive opposition from the international community.

I don't think there is next to anything close to such an international consensus against Hamas, PIJ, let alone the secular Palestinian factions, all of whom have the open backing of several regional states, for Hamas even of NATO member Turkey.

(Syria is of course an entirely different deal, precisely because the (also Sunni Arab) Syrian rebels, just like the Palestinian factions and unlike the Iraqi insurgents, have managed to keep the open backing of several regional states and stay separate from ISIS, meaning even ISIS itself can ride on their coattails doing entryism. That's why ISIS is essentially dead in Iraq but still alive in Syria.)

Idk, in a very real sense I hope both Israel and Hamas lose. In the absence of a ceasefire, I hope the current war annihilates Hamas as a fighting force, and is so exhausting and geopolitically isolating for Israel that they can be effectively pressured into some kind of peace deal for a two-state-solution.

In all likelihood probably neither will happen. Hamas will survive but Israel will not feel pressure either.

#politics #war cw #terrorism cw #genocide cw #other people's fucking countries

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Territorial gains of the Ukraine War this year

Despite nine months of bloody fighting, less than 500 square miles of territory have changed hands since the start of the year.

#a simple ceasefire would be pareto-optimal this is just a fact #politics #imperialism #war cw #other people's fucking countries

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It seems like a good time to remind everyone that this guy, Jackson Hinkle, is a fascist who’s trying to build clout for his particular brand of third position ethnonationalism by posting about the Israeli assault on Palestine. He’s a liar and a snake.

#he praised netanyahu as building multipolarity last year and is also an assad supporter #all-around awful person #nazis cw #free palestine

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#free palestine

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damn I wonder who very well documentedly had that position in the 1930s

The Stalinists were his executioners every bit as much as the Nazis, and had no hesitation in demanding his death. Dimitrov (Van der Lubbe’s supposed accomplice), who was to be acquitted and become one of the principal leaders of the stalinised Comintern, even demanded in open court that Van der Lubbe should be "condemned to death for having worked against the proletariat" (L’Humanité, organ of the French CP, 17th December 1933).

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there are people on this website who consider themselves left wing who would have been calling people tankies in the 1930s for refusing to condemn the reichstag fire

#politics #socialism #history side of tumblr #nazis cw

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We're at the "liberal Zionists saying they would have supported the NSDAP in the 1930s and that's why they hate Palestinians" stage of this btw

#free palestine #politics #other people's fucking countries #imperialism #nazis cw #racism cw