الأرض ستبقى عربية

What’s wrong with being pan-Africanist? If anything that makes him an internationalist rather than a nationalist.

Westerners accept lesser-evilism for themselves but don’t accept it for others.

Israel intentionally starves the Palestinians and then denies what we can all see. Western media is complicit in this.

I wish

Hopefully this will be good for the rest of the world.

There is no such thing as Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Arab. They are Palestinians who survived the 1948 Nakba and weren’t expelled. Israel tries to erase Palestinian identity by pretending Palestinians are generic Arabs from elsewhere. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship do go through the Israeli education system and some do buy into the Zionist narrative but they are a very small minority.

Turkic languages that use/used the Arabic script extended it with additional letters and diacritics.

I don’t believe that the Arabic script is hard to learn. I was able to read pretty much anything written in Arabic by second grade. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip had higher literacy than some Western nations despite the occupation and lack of resources.

I can’t find any locally. That’s why I’m holding off until a purchase becomes absolutely necessary, and hoping that Huawei does release HarmonyOS here -so far they released it on tablets only.

Here are a few things to keep you hopeful despite how awful it has gotten:

• The trends are not in favour of the G7 or NATO, at best they can delay the inevitable.
• Turkiye is increasingly asserting itself. To think there was a time when it wasn’t even allowed to make ammunition. See: TAI TF Kaan.
• Yemen forced the US into a ceasefire.
• Russia surmounted what was supposed to be unsurmountable sanctions, its economy has out grown the US’s and the UK’s in 2024.
• More science and technology research is happening outside of the US, specifically in China.
• Israel has never been more unhinged and honest about its intentions. In the past they would deny the Nakba, now they openly call for a Second Nakba. In the past they would claim that all they want is to live in peace and to defend themselves from threats, now they are openly threatening Qatar and Egypt.
• The US and Israel are acting violently and irrationally -regardless of party- because they know they are running out of time.

Of course none of this make the genocide in Gaza anymore bearable, and it is depressing that the world is watching and no one is trying to stop it. But the system -rule based order- that allows it is being weakened even if at a slower pace than we would like.

I have been feeling the same and been constantly sad for a while. Over the past 2 years things played worse than I expected. The only upside for me was that Iran survived the last onslaught and inflicted pain the Zionists aren’t accustomed to. On a personal level I am doing great, but I feel guilty, hopeless and helpless to the state of the world around me. Just going on with my daily life as nothing is happening when things are not fine at all.

That said, I’m still hopeful. Maybe the liberal are right for once and Trump will destroy the USA.

I have seen Arab Christians go through additional screening upon entry to the US despite their obvious Arabic Christian names and the crosses they are wearing. Hatred of Islam is still widely acceptable in the West and they use that to hate on all peoples from south and east of the Mediterranean even those who aren’t Muslim. Otherwise they will have to admit that they are just racist, which many sometimes can obviously be, see how Sub-Saharan Christians are treated in Europe.

No, of course not. I just recently did it on my former work’s laptop that I then gifted away. I just don’t want to pay for the price of Windows which is factored in the price of a new laptop.

I have been using GNU+Linux for over 15 years now. I am just not comfortable with giving Microsoft -or Apple- any of my money even indirectly, and don’t want a desktop.

I’m currently using an old MacBook from 2015 that I installed LinuxMint on. I am considering a new laptop but nothing comes preloaded with GNU/Linux and I don’t want a MacBook. If Huawei brings their HarmonyOS MateBook I might give it a try out of sheer curiosity, but their current offering where I live comes preloaded with Windows and has iffy Linux support.

I just don’t send back the work laptop and install GNU/Linux on it. Though with the last job I left, I gifted the laptop instead.

Can you still be denaturalized after leaving the US? I left but still required to pay taxes and renouncing the citizenship involves an exit tax. I’m assuming denaturalization doesn’t come with a tax burden.

How many are accepting of losing the eastern territories?

The van in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Ducato#Third_generation_(2006)

I say to US lawmakers: Do it!

People in Europe will soon learn why people in Southwest Asian and North Africa dress the way they dress. 42C is a cool evening here when daytime temperatures exceed 50C during the hottest days of the year.

Traditionally worn by Bedouins and Tuaregs, tunics of any color are cooler than any other Western garment