I have a masters in security studies and a PhD in Islamic studies. I've lived in Egypt and Tunisia.
Israel is a settler colonial project intent on genociding the native population. Maybe that's not what it was 70 years ago but that's certainly what it is today.
I graduated high school from a rural Texas town four months before 9/11 happened. My entire college career was shaped by 9/11 but it didn't take long for me to realize that the fundamentalist Baptists I was raised by are really no different from al Qaida.
I have to agree that my PhD is basically worthless and I'm teaching at a Houston area community college as proof. However, I understand the Israel/Palestine "conflict" better than anyone wants to give me credit for. Educated, childless, single women are a threat no matter what religion you subscribe to.
Thanks. But pleasantries don't excuse genocide. No one has the right to invade a nation and kill the native population. The entire basis for Israeli colonization is an old book written by Bronze Age nomads who didn't know where the sun went at night. It's not complicated.
I was literally living across the street from Tahrir Square in Cairo, at the American university, when the Egyptian revolution sparked. What a time and place to be as a young American, and to see a sizable plurality of Egyptians fight for freedom, only to be denied by their heavily US backed military who did not want the "chaos and instability of democracy"
Everyday is fuck Israel day.
We should use the Tibetan Book of the Dead to make our foreign policy decisions too. Why just The Bible?
I don't care what a 5000-year-old book says. You do not have the right to colonize and genocide Palestine, the same way Europeans did to the Americas.
An ancient book of fairytales that says you're "chosen" is fucking bullshit.
Read Melanie Phillips for actual history of the region; otherwise, your position is weakened.
I have a masters in security studies and a PhD in Islamic studies. I've lived in Egypt and Tunisia.
Israel is a settler colonial project intent on genociding the native population. Maybe that's not what it was 70 years ago but that's certainly what it is today.
I donтАЩt agree with what you said and would never say things that way, but that was quite the takedown.
I graduated high school from a rural Texas town four months before 9/11 happened. My entire college career was shaped by 9/11 but it didn't take long for me to realize that the fundamentalist Baptists I was raised by are really no different from al Qaida.
Read Phillips for regional history. Islamic studies do not apply. I appreciate your comment.
Who died and left you god to decide what studies do or do not тАШapplyтАЩ? How are we to understand the region without studying Islam?
I have to agree that my PhD is basically worthless and I'm teaching at a Houston area community college as proof. However, I understand the Israel/Palestine "conflict" better than anyone wants to give me credit for. Educated, childless, single women are a threat no matter what religion you subscribe to.
But we go places in life where we never expected and have experiences along the way weтАЩd never trade.
Thanks. But pleasantries don't excuse genocide. No one has the right to invade a nation and kill the native population. The entire basis for Israeli colonization is an old book written by Bronze Age nomads who didn't know where the sun went at night. It's not complicated.
I was literally living across the street from Tahrir Square in Cairo, at the American university, when the Egyptian revolution sparked. What a time and place to be as a young American, and to see a sizable plurality of Egyptians fight for freedom, only to be denied by their heavily US backed military who did not want the "chaos and instability of democracy"
We are complete hypocrites.
Correct.
Trump, Putin and the Ayatollah are all elderly infirm deeply insecure men who can't face their own mortality and want to take the world with them.