It's a common issue everywhere, this is possible in many countries now because of the shift in demographic balance where elderly make a bigger voter bloc compared to rest. Whereby governments use pensions and benefits for the elderly as a source of easy votes while using policies that constantly undermine young populations with living cost concerns then foreigners make an easy target and at the same time something to associate their discontentment towards governments and economic situation. In a way these governments make immigrants partners in crime to their adherence to status quo that keeps getting more and more unsustainable when immigrants are often preferred because it is easier to exploit them with lower wages and basically no working rights while at the same time pretending they can't do anything about it because of international laws or "because of the woke" or something like that.
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I am not sure I agree with this fully, in the sense obviously Israel is a project of Western hegemony and that Israel exists and existed at behest of US and Europe as a foothold to keep the politics of the region volatile and easily influenced. So at a state level, Israel is beholden to US and the West not the other way around. However states don't exist as some sort of supranational hivemind that dictates politics and diplomacy purely with raison d'état, a state and its institutions are composed of people who themselves have direct influence on policy that can at times go against that raison d'état or just have obvious conflicts of interests that are navigated within circumstances of policy. I don't think at this stage anyone can deny that Israeli lobbies, chiefly AIPAC, has disproportionate influence over US politicians at legislative level, executive and judiciary is generally independent of this but house and senate seems to have reached a sort of critical mass of AIPAC-backed (directly funded and supported) candidates that essentially share a mission in Zionism and any which falls out of this line just has to fight against the establishment at very disadvantage terms.
So while I agree that the idea that Israel is somehow the ones that are pulling the strings are an antisemitic trope and ignoring the fact that Israel started as an European colonial project that was backed and supported by West for Western interests and directly tied to US policy in middle-east, and as Biden said once if it didn't exist it'd be necessary to invent it, we can't just ignore the undue and disproportionate influence that Israeli Zionist lobbies have in US politics especially at legislative level. Of course this is not just Israel, since there exists other lobbies such as Gulf lobby that are doing similar things and at times even seem to have more influence at executive but it is not quite at the level of AIPAC and the rest.
I would recommend "The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule: 1516-1800" by Jane Hathaway, the book itself is very good but particularly it has stellar bibliography which you can consult for any particular topic that might catch your interest in the overview.
The saddest part of this is that Elon has never said anything interesting in his life, and is one of the most limp personalities of any public figure. It is pitiful and pathetic in a way that it almost feels wrong to look down upon.
Academic history is not very fascist so there is no need to ever concede any interest in history to any fash adjacent group. I am personally very interested in history in general and military history too and almost everything I read on the matter is written by nuanced understanding regardless of what its political or ideological leanings are which range from neoliberal conservative historians to more materialist or Marxist analysis. A lot of pop history is just very fascistic because pop history is superficial and lacks substance, that's also the main appeal of fascism, just a generalized incoherent aesthetic vibe without anything behind it.
It's interesting how all the talking points around what's happening in Gaza and how it doesn't qualify as a genocide is exactly the talking points given about Armenian Genocide by its denialists. Perhaps Israeli politicians outrage about trying to refute the genocide claims by arguing against those alikening it to holocaust serves also as a smoke screen by distracting from comparisons to other historical incidents like Armenian Genocide or what happened to Circassians.
On one hand you are right she doesn't deserve that much effort, on the other hand she is all aesthetic no substance much like fascism so it might be befitting.
This is just an articulated sophism to essentially say that leftists should stop making a ruckus and just understand that they can't change American politics so they should shut up and let the genocide happen and focus on the American politics they can't change anyway. Very in line with democratic leadership messaging, never rock the boat and let it take you wherever the wind of money blows.
It does, he says بصر and بصيرة which are sight and insight. It is a fairly common word to mean insight or discernment or even vision.
Unfortunately the only thing which motivates large portion of male population whether liberal or conservative is to what degree they can objectify women. This is why Israel uses models as IDF propaganda.
Are you asking for a specific book talking about this concept? I am not sure if there is anything comparative this way but in a lot of cultures historical and contemporary the idea of fulfilment is tied to different formulae (sometimes evoking that image of formula, for example "Alchemy of Happiness" by Al-Ghazali), it is a broad spectrum with variety theological and philosophical understandings whether it is spiritual or mundane. Happiness can come from fulfilment but it is more of a fleeting feeling that's not reliable as a long term goal so these religious or personal beliefs often emphasize other factors for it, from self-sacrifice to community to purpose whether one agrees or not. Consumerist culture is something else entirely, because it sells happiness which is elusive and hard to define, you are always meant to self-improve towards productivity to service this idea of acquiring happiness as an utilitarian currency which you exchange for your toil so life is proposed as an expense for goal of happiness. This latter idea of consumerism and happiness is something that has been written about specifically. As for the connection of both to each other and this event that's a personal interpretation I made. I suppose one could just call it a "hot take" that way.
This is what I think too. People like to decorate, customize and personalize things. They have been doing it since as far as we can tell from archeological evidence. So grasping for completely depersonalized utilitarian packaging for everything as if they are subsistence rations seems like it is trying to minimize the outcome rather than solving the problem that exists regarding affordability and sustainability.