That’s because it’s not a family per se; it’s more of a tribe.

That’s not what the word “fanatic” means, but also Sharia law is a thin veneer of religiosity that the MBS regime violates on a daily basis (you can quite famously get alcohol in Saudi Arabia, for example).

The Saudi regime isn’t “religiously fanatic” in 2026 and hasn’t been for a while. MBS is, like most other Middle Eastern dictators, going the secular-ish nationalist autocrat route these days. Besides, the idea that “religious fanatics” should have some kind of solidarity between them is very strange considering the centuries-old bad blood between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and in any case the Iranian and Saudi regimes operate completely differently.

and SA is a target because they helped trump…

Hell no? There’s a reason the Houthis are only attacking Saudi Arabia, and it’s the Yemeni Civil War. Iran helps the Houthis because they have a common enemy in Saudi Arabia, which may have something to do with Saudi Arabia having starved almost a hundred thousand Yemeni children to death. The Houthis justify their airport strikes in particular as retaliation for a (claimed, I can’t find reporting on it) Saudi strike on Sanaa International Airport, which wouldn’t be the first time. The beef between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis is real, bloody and far more than just an extension of America’s beef with Iran. The only thing that would stop the Houthis from blowing things up in Saudi Arabia is for the Saudis to stop blowing up things in Houthi-held Yemen.

Setting aside the complete lack of a source, a 66% reduction is big but it’s not “virtually disappears.” At this point this is misinformation.

No it’s perfectly on brand as this was four/five years after Japan was kicked out of China.

Not idiots, or well not just idiots. Representing the interests of the rich is his job with everything else being secondary. This is the default state of a neoliberal regardless of intelligence. The target of this message is American billionaires, not you.

North Germanic language family moment.

There’s nothing such as “establishment left” in most Western countries, and the countries whose political establishment does have a leftwing element (i.e. Spain) do tend to be tougher on Israel.

I mean, Iran definitely is right to defend itself against Israeli-American aggression. They’re wrong about a lot of other things, but giving America, Israel and their allies hell for blowing up their country is objectively the right thing to do.

I mean Osama bin Laden def had a point about American imperialism.

Nah, Israeli apartheid has a hierarchy to it. Since this guy has Israeli citizenship he just gets expelled from his home while also being systematically deprived of resources, opportunity and democratic representation.

Fair enough.

I mean, only one of these is currently being subjected to genocide, and Western celebrities will be more focused on injustices their own countries are helping.

Your paragraph about the formation of Israel is mostly popular myth. Most of the Jews who were there for the founding of Israel were already there by WWII (mostly but not entirely from Eastern Europe), and from there the really big infusion was from the Middle East. A lot of holocaust survivors did go to Israel, but they weren’t “put” there and it remained illegal under the British mandate. Zionist colonization of Palestine starts in the late 19th century and really gets going after Britain wins WWI; WWII was important insofar as it exhausted the British Empire and paved the way for decolonization, but it didn’t result in a massive infusion of new people. Zionism was for the most part a Jewish project that got external cooperation, not a pan-European plan to resettle Jews (the Allies had planned to resettle Holocaust survivors in their countries of origin).

Turkey is notorious about this. Iran is currently droning Kurds in Iraq. Syria just fucked over the AANES which had a thriving multicultural system with Kurds as a foundational part.

Not sure about Turkey, but what does Iran droning Kurds in Iraq look like? And Syria absorbing the AANES doesn’t seem like doing much to Kurdish identity per se?

It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.

Uh… no? For the most part pre-20th century Palestine was a backwater nobody really cared about (the Crusades being the big exception).

Bruh a based elected official? In this economy?

It makes sense if opting out means you don’t get national insurance.

I mean BLM didn’t achieve all of its goals, but it was partially effective, but also nobody (AFAIK) went on strike during BLM. The French protests obviously have more juice here.