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Middle East and beyond. Land of endless war.

[City of Peace @urusilim]

@PanacheIndian @allenanalysis Clearly.

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@Hyters303 @SilenceCaPrompt That's my thought. I immediately got goosebumps when I saw vercel.

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Now here's the other side.

JP Morgan also mapped out what happens if the deal falls apart.

If fighting continues and escalates, they expect Saudi oil production to go offline.

That pushes oil toward $125, possibly $150.

Everything changes from there.

[City of Peace @urusilim]

@MarxistsWon If he were alone without teammates, it would drain all his health. Monitoring the war was exhausting. His anger towards Israel would always drive him back until the final days of the zionist state.

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@nerdusuztra @PandemicTruther hard to replace USD. Too much for other economies to handle. US will suffer as time goes by. They will decline day by day until someone else has a replacement for USD.

[City of Peace @urusilim]

Still a fact

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@ArmchairW Israel will and never honor the ceasefire. If they have a chance, they will keep hitting Iran.

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@ArmchairW Israel will and never honor the ceasefire. If they have a chance, they will keep hitting Iran.

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@randomando111 @GlobalIJournal You fucking idiot. I understand Turkish and occasionally visit Iran. No need for stupid AI. That girl speaks Farsi. Period.

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@cirnosad We will experience an earthly spring, not just an Arab spring.

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@cirnosad If the war drags on and gas prices remain high, the American people will revolt.

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@cirnosad Not just America. Several other countries will suffer the same fate.

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@REGENETARIANISM @academic_la I said that Joseph was based on the story. So, it's likely the biblical story is based on an urban legend, just like noah and gilgamesh.

[City of Peace @urusilim]

@REGENETARIANISM @academic_la You forgot about famine stela. Story of Joseph likely based on the story of famine stela.

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@HnatMicheal @academic_la Canaan was located in the fertile land of the Fertile Crescent. No matter what, including Egypt. It was there that the people could survive.

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@yetoshi24 You're wrong. Almost the entire Indonesian archipelago had its own religion before Hinduism and Buddhism. It is monotheism with names Parmalim, Kapitayan, Kaharingan, and even Bali aren't actually Hindu. They call their religion Bali Dharma. Their god is Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa.

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@cirnosad https://t.co/53Ta69bfCD

He said this. For him, Iran needs to exist to counter Israel. If Iran disappears, Israel will target Türkiye.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago.

The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans.

Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites.

Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written.

The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention.

El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity.

"Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different.

The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes.

Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe.

The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire.

In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it.

The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence.

So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East:

The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys.

The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world.

Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic.

Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite.

History has a very dark sense of humor.

[City of Peace @urusilim]

@130D04M4T @Kaan20251535951 @Blackburger_28 It's very suspicious when they say f18 shoots f15. Because you can't lock f15 without changing the IFF code.

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@rahmaut @harrapasabhyata @christasyd Ignorant Indians generally think everyone is Hindu. But they forget that Hinduism was created by the British. It was the British who named all the different Indian gods Hindu.

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@harrapasabhyata @christasyd No, no. They had their own religion before Hinduism. In fact, their religion still lives on today. It's essentially a monotheistic religion with names like Kaharingan, Kapitayan, Parmalim, and so on. That's why they readily accepted Islam because their ancestors were monotheists.