The Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran.
The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic.
When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
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@alisaripel@naamuli84@Mebaessok להרים הפגנות זה חשוב, אבל לחברי כנסת יש תפקידים יותר קריטיים שרק הם יכולים לעשות, כמו לחוקק חוקים ולבקר את הממשלה בוועדות ובמליאה.
על זה אנחנו משלמים להם.
כל כך מתסכל שמכל הרפורמה המשפטית העצומה שהציעו, נעדר הדבר הכי פשוט והכי מתבקש: פיצול תפקיד היועמ"ש, כמקובל בעולם. התובע הכללי ועורך הדין של הממשלה לא צריכים להיות אותו אדם ולא להיבחר באותה שיטה. זה ניגוד עניינים מובנה.
אין מהלך בודד שישפר יותר את המשילות כאן
האם היום זה היום שבו המיינסטרים הישראלי מבין שלמלחמה אין מטרות ברורות וחיילים משלמים בחייהם, שההרג המאסיבי בעזה לא יחזיר לנו את הרוגי ה 7 באוקטובר, שהחזרת החטופים היא המעשה המוסרי הראשון במעלה, שהמאבק הציבורי להעיף את נתניהו וממשלתו צריך להתחיל עכשיו ושגנץ צריך לצאת מהממשלה מיד?
@AlienLion@TheMossadIL Thankfully, the tank crew wasn't hurt. But I glad you show us how Hamas militants continue to wear civilian clothes in order to assimilate in civilian population and be declared civilian casualties when they are KIA
@dex_grease19155 @latayprime @Usman_Rafii@visegrad24 If you really want to learn about the history of the region and who controlled it throughout history, and I mean that sincerely, here’s a good, unbiased video
https://t.co/dRRab1FEZz
@dex_grease19155 @latayprime @Usman_Rafii@visegrad24 I get it! You lose the irrelevant coin game and moved to a new one! Now we're playing "who ruled the land longer"? Well, for how long did the Palestinians rule this land?
A month ago, at this hour, I had to tell my two daughters - 3.5 years old and 20 months old - that they must remain completely silent. No word, no cry.
It was 7AM, they had just woken up in a dark room with no electricity or food, and five people were shouting outside the window.