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Reminds me of this one, and how in the US you can lose your job in academia (and many other sectors) for supporting the BDS movement to boycott Israeli goods:
Lmao, I'm taking a Europe after 1919 history course at a notoriously conservative college and it is a struggle to not be openly vitriolic towards the imperialist bloc.
“It’s bad to support smothering orphans” what country does this guy live in
The Saudi, UAE and (to a lesser extent) Egyptian (edit: governments) are all for whatever Israel does. It’s more complicated in other countries because the people are against it but the government isn’t, so you have to be against Israel just enough to please the people but not too much that you displease the government ❤️
There is an extremely limited number of arabs that are even close to tolerant of the genocide being committed, and those people are either rich or government officials. Almost every arab I know would spit in a person's face if they found out they were even remotely pro-Israel.
I may be biased in this view point given that I am Palestinian, but I have never had to distance someone for their point of view so I'd say that what I said still stands.
So to you Arab countries are places where the government and the people are the same, even though you recognize other countries aren't like that? The vast majority of Muslims are pro Palestine and would be offended by you insinuating that they support Israel just because their shitty governments do.
Also, it's funny to even imply that most of those governments are completely sovereign entities who are there due to any kind of organic process, rather than deformed wrecks resulting from massive outside pressure (almost all by the US empire and its allies).
Of course I’m not assuming anyone supports Israel or that the people and government are the same
This rant was purely against governments, sorry if I worded it wrong
What did you mean by the bolded section if not "it's not complicated in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt because the people and the government support it"? I don't mean to be confrontational here, but I don't see how else that sentence can be interpreted.
Other countries the people are against the genocide but the governments aren’t really (some may at least “condemn” Israel for their public image)
But are the people in favor of the genocide in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt?
Mostly no, but you’d be surprised how many are okay with it in Saudi and the UAE
Happens because they’re nationalists, support whatever the government does
Very bad wording, it makes it seem like you're accusing the Saudi, uea, and Egyptian people of doing so