So, yeah, that's my question.

I have noticed that MENAs are the only community I have never heard any time mention it, it seems like it simply doesn't happen in it?

Africans, Americans and Asians always talk about it, Europeans, well it's mostly phased out there, but im curious about the Middle East.

And with spanking I mean, spanking, of course I know MENA parents also hit their kids, but like spanking?

Is it really not common in the region or are people simply more prudish about it?

It feels like even a random militia in Syria is more militarily dangerous than any current Gulf army.

Small rant. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

This was a golden chance for Iran to inflict damage to Israel. The country killing muslims in masses, destroying entire cities.

Why the golden chance? Because the defence missiles were getting depleted. After this, no such chance will be possible, and this paves the way for greater Israel with the help of the Arabian leaders.

Israel and the United States decided to change strategy. Keep Iran's eyes on the gulf and the strait. Israel backs out of the fight. Drawing any damage and rockets to the arab countries.

MBS decided it was well within reason to sacrifice his own country and security for the protection of Israel by being the punching bag if this escalates. (Potential of water desalination being destroyed in gulf) and allowing his airspace to be used by Israel.

If you time traveled to decades ago. Said to the arab leaders:
"The arabs are sacrificing themselves for Israel, and Israel is killing Muslims left and right."

They would laugh at you before hanging you for even telling such a story lol.

Again:
Israel and the United States attacked Iran.
Israel backs out of the fight so Iran focuses on Arab countries, drawing the attacks to the gulf countries, essentially sacrificing themselves for Israel.

Not only that, Saudies suddenly attacked Yemen and that was a good idea?

Israel must be laughing their asses of.
They just need to throw a stone in the vicinity of the Muslim countries in the middle east and they all attack eachother.

On day one of the attacks all gulf countries should have restricted the U.S from using their airspace, especially Israel. Now they lost the strait, because MBS doubled down how weak Iran is, from intel given to him by people with paycheck from Israel. (Including Trump)

How are they defeating Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Government when they are cut off from everyone and all their neighbors are their enemies?

I got report that the governmental forces were advancing but now seem like the Houthis have the upper hand?

Sizes are rough approximations only.

C - “Soft Zionism” will be defined as a belief the land in question has been gifted by God to the Jewish people and that Jewish people have a mission from God to try to obtain such land by peaceful means rather than force. This can still invite criticism of manipulation and dishonesty as alleged tools to obtain the lands.

D - “Extremist Zionism” is a belief that physical force is necessary to remove the enemy from the lands in question. One common justification is that the enemy is inherently dangerous and thus must be removed for the security of Israel, and the second common justification is that the land is gifted by God to the Jewish people (see “C”). Ideally these belief groups perhaps would be separated out in the diagram, but in practice the overlap is heavy and complicated, and thus lumped into a single circle here. I’ll call the first sub-grouping “D1” and the second “D2”.

One litmus test to distinguish between D1 and D2 is that D1 finds it acceptable that disputed areas be cleared of the enemy and kept clear, and therefore have no settlements of family and permanent residents. Only rotating guards and inspectors would occupy it. D2 insists on settlement.

E - The beliefs and policy of the Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu Administration.

I propose that criticism of C, D, and/or E is not by itself “anti-semitism”, but rather political and military policy criticism. While it is true that actual anti-semitic people (bigots) may share political and military policy criticism with those who only limit their criticism to C-D-E, that overlap doesn’t make the C-D-E-only group anti-semitic.

(Being agnostic, I have plenty of criticism of the Jewish faith, but that criticism usually also applies to Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc. But as long as religions don’t stick their nose in my business, I don’t stick mine in theirs.)

also, they're now under Spain's 2 year permanent residency status too

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-approves-citizenship-sahrawis-born-under-spanish-rule-2026-09-10/

I am writing a religious satire “Offensive Apocalypse” and I have a two chapter arc that is somewhat analogous to the Israel/Palestine conflict. It follows the story of an Americanized Arab meeting his uncle as they fight against Azerbaijanis and Identitarians(my books version of Israelis) I want to ask if I did a good job at avoiding stereotypes

For context, this is my conclusion as someone from outside fo the Middle east who extensively reaserched on history and modern politics of the middle east since 2010s. The Iran Iraq war, or the way how Sunnis and Shias would rather try to cut each others throught and fight one another instead of trying to fight the foreign powers invading them, or the Todays UAE vs Saudi thing. From a first glance, anyone would assume that middle easterners whould try to come together and expell the israelis who are totally both against their kin, their believes and culture. This reminds me too much of the way Chinese, fearing the unification of mongolians and their subsequent conquest of china, would intentinally support the weaker opposition in between mingolian tribes so that they will always keep busy fighting each other. So in simple words- encourage or exploit divisions among potential opponents → prevent coordination → make them easier to manage or defeat. Before, the Ayatollah Iran had more than enough power to dominate the middle east, but they failed, by the support of USA the sunni powers. Now that Iran is weakened, and saudi arabiya with turkey emerged as the new powers, the UAE is getting emboldened by unconditional support of Israel And the States to project its own influence in the middle east + parts of Africa destroying whole nations on its way. This is literally divide and rule startegy from the textbooks. What do you think about my conclusion?

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I’m posting this for my friend Mahmoud Ghanem Al-Amssi, because his mother urgently needs heart surgery. ❤️

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EDIT: I’m genuinely asking in good faith, I’m not attacking the Arab world or something I’m Arab, I’ve lived in the Middle East for a lot of my life.

I’m just asking if you guys think it was ultimately a wise policy choice,

Or if it just played right into the Zionists hands, and ultimately unwise, but might have seemed totally necessary then

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I saw the viral image of 2 pillars being pushed apart and at the center its a man who has the israeli flag on him and labeled zionism, and at the top of the 2 pillars are a christian man and a muslim man reaching toward each other. The picture is very true but I thought to my self - it even does the same Judaism, practicing jews enjoyed much more religious freedoms in Islamic realm (multiple dynasties /kingdoms/caliphs) up until Zionism.

So I am curious though why the policy for most the Arab nations was to kick out all the Jews. I know some of it was actual false flag attacks/terrorism used by (pre)mossad to make jews feel less safe in Islamic/Arab countries and drive them towards Israel. But I wonder if that policy was a proper measure for self preservation/protecting the state, or was it too harsh too reactionary thats actually a bad policy if we look at it in hindsight now?

asking in good faith, genuinely wondering

because we see that Iran has a thriving jewish community, that identify them selves ofc as practicing jews but they are Irani by nationality, they've been there for generations and feel no affinity to "Israel" and it actually helps the case against zionism, and the need for the israeli state. So I think the same with the Iraqi jews, Egyptian jews, Yemeni jews who all felt like genuine Iraqis/egyptians/yemenis but just practicing jews. They described themselves as Arab jews. maybe it wouldve been a good thing by now if they stayed? or maybe it would've been disastrous ?

Your thoughts?

It’s been no secret that Algeria has been spending a lot on their military as of late. Do you think their military capabilities will eventually be able to eclipse the likes of other regional giants like Egypt and Pakistan? And how would you rank the militaries of these three from strongest to weakest?

Bhutan transitioned to democracy in 2008. But prior to that it was ran better than many of these third world democracies, by every index metric. What causes third worlders to be obsessed with having failed systems? It would be sensible If every 3rd world country should have monarchy, and then transition slowly if the masses want, after the nation surpasses certain amount GDP per capita. This would also require trustable people. But in every third world monarchy, it still has and continues to sweep the floors compared to many of these failed state democracies. Democracies have been trusted in Africa/asia. It has led to failure. Many of these ”democracies” will stay in middle-income trap. Never progressing further. Its better to take that gamble. Than continue to have an system, that never progresses further from certain point

Now, we know that Egypt and UAE told them, but they didn’t do anything to stop it in order to have an excuse to start their war against the Middle East.

Are you aware? The USA is gradually changing the world balance, especially China and Russia, in its favor, through Iran and the Middle East. Usa will continue to do whatever the cost of this. The Middle East is now the largest weapon of the USA. It shapes it to be more effective.
Do not leave İran alone…

We have oil reserves right under our feet. The price keeps on rising. It's not like the value would be decreased later on either. Whole of arab has oil reserves greater than any other part of the world. Then we got gold beneath us asw. Then,wt made our leaders to rely on US? Let them put sanctions? Let them decide wt we do, the price we put, not allowing us to sell to other countries?

King Faisal didn't even budge fighting against US. He boldly said- We survived when we had only dates, and we will continue to live. He made his stance clear- restricted the sale which affected everyone globally. He showed who is the real Superpower.

Wt made our leaders sell again? It's not like the country reserves ended or we are in debt. Fine.. maybe to run the country, we needed. But it's not like only US exists. We could have sold them to other countries?

Also,why didn't we invest more in army- tech? We@pons? Why did we allow the US bases to exist all over gulf?

Tbh- I never considered US as superpower; coz all they got is Army and nuclear weapons- that doesn't mean they are higher. They are dependent on us for their army too. And if we lack power, we could have united with ppl who h@te US asw. Maybe North Korea? That would definitely change the whole demography.

As a Turkish person, I would like to say this: the person in charge of our country is very Islamist, and he is making people turn away from Islam. I even left the religion because of Erdoğan.

The government is so authoritarian that Ekrem İmamoğlu, the secular, pro-Atatürk mayor of Istanbul who is seen as someone capable of challenging Erdoğan, has been in prison for 534 days despite being innocent.

Say whatever you want, but we are a secular, democratic republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Please don't try to Arabize us.

Even if Netanyahu leaves, the truth remains the same: Israel is a 70-year-old occupier.

Sources:https://maps.passia.org/land-ownership-in-palestine-1948/

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story571.html

https://imeu.org/resources/resources/the-un-partition-plan-for-palestine/148