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Fr. Wah's avatar

Perfect: succinct and clear. It is ironic that Islamic elites use neo-Marxist victimhood tropes to divert attention away from critique of their own dysfunctional societies, and focus the rage of their underclass against Jews, Israel, or the West.

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Steve's avatar

You linked the woke dei culture of the west with the middle east in way i never thought of. And it makes so much sense. Beautiful.

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BB's avatar
Mar 29Edited

this is SUPERBLY written and stated. (I've been in U.S. graduate school academic circles (was grad student) and also have lived overseas, quite some time in the "Middle East".) Tremendously impressed by this to the point I will share it with my ex Professors. Now a huge fan.

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David Judson's avatar

Brilliant. Deep and original insight. Thank you.

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Jon's avatar

We need more analyses that tie ideologies to the unhealthy character traits they engender (resistance to self-examination and eternal victimhood in this case).

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Palestinianism is anti-israel anti-jew anti-zionist framing themselves as the eternal victim of a war that they started over and over, the Arab cries out, the Jew hit me back, the Jews have been the victims and despite what some rabbis say that are completely Fringe and anti-zionist Zionism means that we're not waiting for God to create a Homeland and every inch of Israel is legitimate and the world wines endlessly and indulges the palestinianists in perpetuity with funding their perpetual fuckery to the amusement of all those who are pre-wired to be triggered by Jews and them having sovereignty in the nation of their own creation with complete and utter justification.

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Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.

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Abe Greenwald

Executive Editor of Commentary Magazine

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Gaslighting is so typical of the unwitted McTards, were your parents both cousins and alcoholics?

Maybe you could breed with a Gaza Arab and increase your genetic stock.

Simple ideas tend to confound goitards who've never been outside their Nazi glory hole bubble and always reveal themselves as dumb fuck cunts.

Not only was shitlers Mom the Town bicycle he was a gay prostitute in Vienna who was banging his niece who was younger and killed herself.

https://youtu.be/A7xsdHnNMfs?si=zdI2U54BRI3WSql9

Goi'tardery epitomized🤦💨🙍💩🕳️

Onward with your curse as you pray to your Jewish failed Messiah and realize the reason it's called the crucifix is because if it was real it would be called the crucifact. May 5785 continue to chap your hide 🤢

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CarlW's avatar

One read, one new subscriber.

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Woolie Wool's avatar

Is this not also the posture of many Zionists who make excuses for Israel's brutality through a victim narrative, one so complete in its narcissism it cannot admit any other people has ever suffered a genocide or that Jews in the Middle East can learn from anyone else's experience? Was this same grievance ideology not the foundation of the original fascist regimes of the early 20th century? In fact I might argue that the failure of fascism to take root in the English speaking works during the Depression has less to do with anti-fascists holding the line at Cable Street or Smedley Butler heroically reporting the Business Plot to Congress, than the fact that Anglos at the time had little interest in narratives of their own victimization.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

you yet another version of the gassiest windbag version of Islamic deflectionism 🙄 and Israel derangement syndrome 😆🤭😜🤫🧠🤏

Gaza is precisely what the Western left says it hates: a racist, sexist, homophobic, militaristic, anti-Democratic, kleptocratic, dogmatically religious police state of science fictional inequity and oppression. And they love it more than anything in the world.

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Abe Greenwald

Executive Editor of Commentary Magazine

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Woolie Wool's avatar

This is exactly the sort of moral idiocy I keep pointing out. Me good, them bad. Good people. Bad people. Good people. Bad people. They’re Bad, Bad, Bad, therefore we Good people don’t owe them any responsibility.

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

Can I interest you in some relics that signify and glorify European irrationality

The crown of thorns

A piece of the cross

Blood of Christ

The nappies of the infant Jesus

Another piece of the cross

Blood from a picture of Christ

The chain

Sacred cloth inserted in a picture

Stone from the tomb

Milk of the Virgin Mary

The spear

A victorious cross (Titulus)

The purple mantle

The reed

The sponge

A part of Christ's shroud (sudarii)

The towel used to dry the Apostles' feet

Moses' rod

A part of John the Baptist's head

St. Blas' head

St. Clement's head

St. Simeon's head

My favorite that's not on the list was the bottled last breath of St Philip, and hear you are of that genealogy coming at Jews with a chip on your shoulder and a sense of superiority and knowledge yet you're an ignorant cunt

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Woolie Wool's avatar

lmao, you think you can upset me by blaspheming Christianity? I’ve never been a Christian, I’ve rocked out to metal music with far more obscene blasphemies than you could ever come up with. And just like I’m not a Christian, I never said anything about Jews, but about ISRAEL, which is a state that more than half of the world’s Jews don’t even live in! The crybullying of Israel’s apologists grows ever shriller, but nobody gives a fuck anymore. We’ve heard it all before. Now that the Trump administration is destroying what’s left of America’s alliance and trade system, Israel is out of friends and out of options. America can’t protect them. The world has no sympathy for them, especially not Russia and China. Many of their best and most talented citizens are leaving for the west. If Israel does not come to some sort of modus vivendi with Levantine Muslims soon, it will go the way of Rhodesia.

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Ma7mad's avatar

What a load of pretentious waffle.

Half baked analysis from another brown sellout.

When they are told, “Do not spread corruption in the land,” they reply, “We are only peace-makers!”

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Richard's avatar

So well written it's quotable. Whilst there is merit in both self-reflection and a more complete international understanding of the interactions of different cultures - history as a morality-play is simplistic to the point of self-deceiving and this is no-where truer than seeing Russia - the world's longest enduring, largest and mostly northerly empire, remaking its image as somehow part of the victimised 'global south'.

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Jon A.'s avatar

Brilliant! You are totally right, voicing concerns I also had on the 'decolonial moment' that we now face. This decolonial 'thinking' has gone berserk, and is leading people into a cultural and intellectual void and will not further the causes of reason and justice.

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Nigel Soames BA, DEML's avatar

Decolonial ideology is certainly a convenient method for failing states to deflect attention from their own failures, especially in countries and populations that suffered genuine depredations at the hands of their colonial masters. But your hypothesis does not extend to the Gulf states, and with good reason: even if the Gulf states were run as de facto colonies, an average Omani during the reign of Sultan Said, for example, did not face daily micro- and macro-aggressions at the hands of the British 'Political Resident' in the way that his Algerian counterpart did at the hands of a French 'administrateur'. In fact he never saw him from one day to the next (I know, I was there). Citizens of the Gulf states simply do not relate to the ideology.

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Darren B's avatar

So the contrast between a colonial relationship and a non-colonial relationship is like if it gives the "colony" a proper trade that allows them to reinvest in the country right?

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Marwan Alblooshi's avatar

Is Morocco similar to the Gulf states and other Arab monarchies in refusing to adopt the decolonization ideology?

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Alan, aka DudeInMinnetonka's avatar

I'm speculating but not certain that Morocco with its now exiled Jewish population found it easy to establish basic economic ties in trade for Israel turning a blind eye to Morocco's occupation of Sahara or whatever it is and some of the mistreatment of their Tuareg people, I'm uncertain of deets on that also. There islamist activist rate seems low compared to the other 23 Arab countries though I heard Mauritania has the highest terrorist recruitment worldwide and is not Arabic and I'm in Minnesota where the somalis have set the Nationwide record for terror arrests it's just a thing a feature not a bug of Islam

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Abhcán's avatar

Decolonisation theories fixate on the actions and agency of the western European colonial powers, particularly in centuries past.

https://1000yearview.substack.com/p/the-immoral-morality-play-of-settler

They play down, ignore, or outright deny the crimes by any other empires, even those of the present day.

https://maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/matryoshka-of-lies-imperial-innocence

https://daryazorka.substack.com/p/putins-war

https://efdavies.substack.com/p/the-russian-myth-of-the-soviet-creation

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