• Geobloke@lemm.ee
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    Well too be fair, Lawrence of Arabia tapped into existing resentment up forment his revolt

    There’s always been differing interests in the middle east, whether it’s religious, ethnic or something else. To say otherwise takes away from the agency of the people living there

  • Jo Miran
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    9 hours ago

    Not disagreeing that the US does a lot of fuckery in the middle east but I think it’s ultimately the UK that started the mess.

    EDIT: West Texas is pretty empty. Israel can have it all.

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        Youtube videos are a disaster in historical accuracy.

        The Ottoman empire was stable. They had beef with Armenia. But that only turned into the Armenian genocide after the Turks turned secular.

        The empire was not a beacon of wealth but it was nothing like the crackpot the middle east has turned into since British and French colonialism.

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        The Ottomans were quite permissive of other cultures, you just has to pay higher tax as a non-muslim, but they left you in peace.

        After the British conspired to incite uprisings in the Ottomans, that’s when they came down hard on their subjects to quell any further uprisings (it didn’t work)

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    God didn’t give the Jews Utah, they got from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq. So say the magic scrolls.

    Which should pretty much be understood as the Zionist goal to claim as the lands of Israel. They will not stop until they have it. They will keep doing incremental land grabs after wars that they goad others into starting, as they have done with Palestine.

  • madthumbs@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It would be nice to see the genocidal religions being squarely blamed rather than the nations that are infested with them.

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    7 hours ago

    Judging by the downvotes, a lot of Lemmitors have no idea how the world works. Just living in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—must be nice.