Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @DerekPederson3
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Divorcing the 1948 war from Arab nationalism leads to misunderstandings of the early history of the Palestine cause—not necessarily for better or worse it’s just incredibly weird to act like pan-Arab identity wasn’t the whole point.
Exactly—but their domestic audience cares *a lot* to the point that this is a major domestic issue for the Arab countries. Normalization with Israel or not, they will continue to care about achieving a de jure Palestinian state.
Exactly—but their domestic audience cares *a lot* to the point that this is a major domestic issue for the Arab countries. Normalization with Israel or not, they will continue to care about achieving a de jure Palestinian state.
There are striking similarities between the errors Khamenei has made in Iran and those by the last Shah, and both relate to desperate and ill-considered efforts by dying leaders to secure the succession by narrowing the regime to the point of implosion amac.us/iranian-regime…
@DerekPederson3 Agreed, the view is upside down. The Saudis want to normalize relation, which requires Israel to defeat Hamas. They just want Israel to do it more quickly, or in any event more effectively, with as little loss of civilian life as possible. Netanyahu et al. don't seem to get that
Hamas’ own casualty stats do not even vaguely support this conclusion that Israel’s war is remotely close to as bad as what the Serbs did in Bosnia, let alone what Lemoine is suggesting here that they’re actually far worse.
Hamas’ own casualty stats do not even vaguely support this conclusion that Israel’s war is remotely close to as bad as what the Serbs did in Bosnia, let alone what Lemoine is suggesting here that they’re actually far worse.
The Yugoslavia solution is still basically the best success story ever with respect to such situations. Just break it up!
The Yugoslavia solution is still basically the best success story ever with respect to such situations. Just break it up!
@DerekPederson3 ethnic tensions arise once coalition falls apart, leading to mini statelets, repression of Rohingya remains, Aung San Suu Kyi remains kicked to curb for enabling Tatmadaw but no longer in house arrest
If the junta in Myanmar falls, what happens next? The situation looks a lot like Afghanistan 1992 right now. Barring intervention it will probably be awhile before there will be a cohesive government.
One reason why many people don’t like this kind of student protest is that it’s mostly working class people, often of color, who have to clean up the facilities and spaces they trash and graffiti. It’s just another form of thoughtless privilege really (unless the kids will/
One reason why many people don’t like this kind of student protest is that it’s mostly working class people, often of color, who have to clean up the facilities and spaces they trash and graffiti. It’s just another form of thoughtless privilege really (unless the kids will/
I don’t understand the cowardice of schools. Call the police!
I don’t understand the cowardice of schools. Call the police!
The most important question is: do you want to expand the government’s role in redistributing wealth and privilege, or decrease it?
The most important question is: do you want to expand the government’s role in redistributing wealth and privilege, or decrease it?
Of course “intifada” means war in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict because that is how the word is used in it by both Palestinians and Israelis. That is how context works.
Of course “intifada” means war in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict because that is how the word is used in it by both Palestinians and Israelis. That is how context works.
I remember thinking this test was unfair at the time. The questions are too weird and ambiguous. Reading many of them I don't know for sure what they're asking. Rereading it, I still think that. Especially unfair as a test of basic literacy.
I remember thinking this test was unfair at the time. The questions are too weird and ambiguous. Reading many of them I don't know for sure what they're asking. Rereading it, I still think that. Especially unfair as a test of basic literacy.
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@DerekPederson3 @CathyYoung63 @Rongwrong_ @RVeradonir @HistoryBoomer Neither do I. I'm rather happy about what the British did with North America.
@Rongwrong_ @DerekPederson3 @CathyYoung63 That wasn't led by Africans reclaiming their homeland. That was the US getting rid of Africans.
@DerekPederson3 @Langerhans_isle @CathyYoung63 I think Liberia is the usual comparison
@DerekPederson3 At most like 3/100 are real
@GhostCoase @DerekPederson3 Opposition to Jewish settlement had been the major factor behind Arab anti-Zionism for decades at that point.
@DerekPederson3 Absolute confidence in the inevitable course of history enables an enormous amount of tactical flexibility in the present. Because you aren't sacrificing anything you won't get back later.
@DerekPederson3 Ironically Kissinger's idealistic realism mirrored Joseph Stalin's. Both believed in the ultimate failure of every system but their own, and both therefore saw their duty as ensuring not victory but survival. Survival of their system would then guarantee its eventual triumph.
There are striking similarities between the errors Khamenei has made in Iran and those by the last Shah, and both relate to desperate and ill-considered efforts by dying leaders to secure the succession by narrowing the regime to the point of implosion amac.us/iranian-regime…
@DerekPederson3 Agreed, the view is upside down. The Saudis want to normalize relation, which requires Israel to defeat Hamas. They just want Israel to do it more quickly, or in any event more effectively, with as little loss of civilian life as possible. Netanyahu et al. don't seem to get that
@DerekPederson3 Devil's advocate: I could see the same argument being used for the opposite conclusion, that the absence of the 1619 project was destructive because it excluded part of the american population (to some extent) from its narrative of America.
@DerekPederson3 ethnic tensions arise once coalition falls apart, leading to mini statelets, repression of Rohingya remains, Aung San Suu Kyi remains kicked to curb for enabling Tatmadaw but no longer in house arrest
@DerekPederson3 Every ethnic army is agreed on the principle of "federal democracy" however there is no way to know what this would look like in practice or if they would ever be able to agree on what this would look like in practice.
@mysteriouskat 1. Where is the inflection point of the Laffer Curve? 2. Can you name a case when two democracies have fought a war? 3. Can you name one thing that is immoral that should be legal and one thing that is morally permissible and should be illegal?
@DerekPederson3 Is this a school or area thing? I was taught about mlk and malcom x around the same time.
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BREAKING: California Polytechnic University (Humboldt) closes its campus until autumn Anti-Israel students seized several buildings 5 days ago & hold them There’s graffiti all over the walls & a building was renamed “Intifada Hall” Via @thestustustudio
I don’t understand the cowardice of schools. Call the police!
BREAKING: California Polytechnic University (Humboldt) closes its campus until autumn Anti-Israel students seized several buildings 5 days ago & hold them There’s graffiti all over the walls & a building was renamed “Intifada Hall” Via @thestustustudio
@DerekPederson3 Does anybody really believe that anymore? I went to school in the US, The history teacher went into detail on how westward expansion fucked over the American Indians and mocked the concept of manifest destiny
@G_S_Bhogal Left. But I think those on the left AND right would answer it the same.
Of course “intifada” means war in the context of the Israeli Palestinian conflict because that is how the word is used in it by both Palestinians and Israelis. That is how context works.
It's not just older Americans who can be frightened by Arabic words. Again, "intifada" does not mean "war" claiming it does mean that is sort of like claiming "revolution" just means violence because revolutions have included violence.