• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    They view all ethnicities as inherently alien to each other and in competition. If a state has a majority Arab population then their ethnicity is the demographic winner and it’s an Arab state. From their perspective there can be no cooperation between Arabs and Jews. They can only exist in tension and oppress each other.

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      10 months ago

      If a state has a majority Arab population then their ethnicity is the demographic winner and it’s an Arab state.

      Okay, but if its got a majority Persian population then its still an Arab state. And if its got a minority Alawite government its also still an Arab state. Turks, Egyptians, Libyans, Moroccans, Somalians… all Arab. Palestinians, Armenians, Albanians, and Indonesians are all Arab.

      They can only exist in tension and oppress each other.

      If they didn’t, who would we sell all our guns and bombs to?

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        Okay, but if its got a majority Persian population then its still an Arab state. And if its got a minority Alawite government its also still an Arab state. Turks, Egyptians, Libyans, Moroccans, Somalians… all Arab. Palestinians, Armenians, Albanians, and Indonesians are all Arab.

        Good point, they’re also not all that much different than how Americans think all Asians are either Chinese or Japanese. Truly the 51st state