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Not one Arab government has a spine..
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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I've been working in the Middle East for over a decade and honestly that's a sentiment lots of folks over here hold as well in relation to what's happening in Gaza. Lots of Arabs see it as their responsibility to do something about the genocide, and for their part lots of folks are participating in boycotts (they also hate that their governments don't do anything about it, but many believe their governments have their hands tied).
I understand the sentiment but as a website that hosts users primarily not from the Arab countries it seems odd to decry the lack of unanimity in opposing Israel from the whole of the Arab world. It just seems islamophobic. Especially if you consider how hyperbolic the title is there are some Arab nations working against the Israeli genocide.
Is it Islamophobic? The Arab world is carved into various states and statelets with little basis, geographic, cultural, or otherwise for their borders; many of them reactionary (or less reactionary, but no less compromised) monarchies, and its most populous country (Egypt) is governed by a western-backed military junta. The last of the pan-Arab secularist states to survive genocidal western crusading- Syria- remains illegally occupied and continually under siege, with the energy-rich and agriculturally-productive regions of the country intentionally controlled as a means to starve them out.
It's no wonder that there can be no unanimity in the region as things are. Many of the current Arab governments have much to answer for, though it is not the Arab peoples' fault. At least there seems to be hope for things going forward..
I guess when King Faisal of KSA blockaded the oil to US so that Palestine could survive CIA murdered him in cold blood. Thats only time KSA had some balls against Israel.