qunfuz.bsky.social
Author "The Road from Damascus". Co-author "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War". Writer and deputy editor at the Critical Muslim. English editor at www.isisprisons.museum. Journalism etc collected at www.qunfuz.com
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I have something for you guys
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o no....
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There are lots of good people in the US, but as a state and world power, the US under either party is an enemy of humanity. Americans need to create a real opposition. The rest of the world need to wake up and defend themselves from America.
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good point. the carpet bombing killed tens of thousands directly, but the effects of the bombing, and the starvation siege, killed hundreds of thousands.
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I didn't support Trump. I opposed both him and the people who COMMITTED GENOCIDE against the Palestinians. I'm sorry you are too morally bankrupt/ racist to understand.
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I did not celebrate Trump's victory. I recommended that people vote neither for him nor for the ticket that perpetrated genocide against Palestinians. I'm happy with that position. Now I'm blocking you, you pro-genocidaire monster.
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Erdogan following his old policy of pretending to be a friend to Russia while working against it. I found it infuriating wrt Syria, but it worked in the end. Germany, on the other hand, built another pipeline for Russian gas after the invasion of Crimea and terror bombing of Syria.
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Anyone focusing on the deaths of the four as if it were all Hamas's fault, without contextualising it in a century of genocidal Zionism, is a bad actor.
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Turkey kept Ukraine's exports moving through the Black Sea, and its drones have helped Ukraine enormously. Turkey destroyed lots of Russian equipment in Syria years ago, and shot down a Russian plane before that - and the west rebuked it. In Libya, it rolled back Russia's man Haftar.
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And let's not pretend the American fascism began with Trump. Biden dithered over Ukraine while sending emergency supplies of cash and hi-tech bombs to perpetrate genocide in Palestine. He lied repeatedly to demonise the victims. The US deserved the collapse which is underway.
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Those Europeans seeking security from the US-Russian axis should abandon their Zionism and racism and ally with Turkey (and Syria). I'm not sure they're capable of it, but they should, because the situation will degenerate further.
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Erdogan's Turkey has done far more to roll back Russia - in Syria, Libya, and even Ukraine, than the US or Germany. The 'west' usually rebuked him for it.
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Now the Ukrainians are facing two imperialist monsters: fascist Russia and the fascist US. If any nation can foil those two's plans, it's Ukraine.
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It is particularly important for readers in Iran to hear the Syrians in our book, and to understand the Syrian perspective, then to compare it with the propaganda of the Iranian regime, which participated in genocide in Syria.
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Genocide denialism in Syria. Love of Modi. Hatred of facts. Extreme Islamophobia.
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I think you're talking to Alastair Campbell, and not to me? I wasn't the interviewer, unfortunately.
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I remember being hosted by Raed and Hamoud in Kafranbel back in 2013. They were very best of men, Allah yerhamon... The best of revolutionaries, of Muslims, of neighbors and friends. It is so sad and unjust that they are not with us today to celebrate the liberation.
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One of many good things in the interview is how he talks about the 80-year-long effort to drive Palestinians from their land, and doesn't pay lip service to the obsolete 'two-state solution'.
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And also because his response would tell us a lot about his ideas about democracy and freedom of expression. And because the families of Raed and Hamoud, like the families of the hundreds of thousands murdered by Assad, deserve truth, and apologies.
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"What IS ethnic cleansing anyway?!1"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFG4...
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Jews have always lived in the Arab world, and usually have done quite well. There were some outbreaks of sectarian violence, but nothing like the antisemitism of Europe. Western-backed genocidal Zionism is what has destroyed relations.
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When apartheid ended, some white people left (for Australia, the UK, the US) because they weren't ready to live as equals with the others, but most stayed and adapted. I expect that would happen in occupied Palestine, but I don't know. By now, Zionism has done far more damage that apartheid SA.
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There's not much point in this discussion because 1. it will be up to the Palestinians, not me, and 2. we don't know how and in which context Zionism will be defeated... but what I think is necessary (for the whole region, not just Palestine) is the defeat of Zionism, not the expulsion of the Jews.
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Where did I say Jews wouldn't be allowed to stay?
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The problem in Palestine is not Palestinian extremists. And history is longer than it feels.
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Western discourse has to contort and distort in order to obscure this reality. It is our job, therefore, to clarify the reality,and to continually point out the western/Zionist distortion. Trump's words are not aberrant, they're just clearer than usual.