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Honestly I'm not sure how we can start a peace process after the terrorist atrocities that were committed?

Israel somehow managed to convince other arab states and the US to make peace after the Lavon Affair and USS Liberty incidents, I'm sure they can manage to find some equivalent forgiveness in their hearts this time around :)

At this point I think the best is to just evacuate all Palestinians to the rest of the Arab countries as refugees and then just leave the contested territory as unoccupied and "dmz" like for both sides.

Logistically far more israelis have dual citizenship elsewhere than Palestnians, so perhaps they should leave instead?

I'm glad that I grew up in {shithole} (as Trump would put it) where I was able to threaten to (and follow up on in one case) beating the shit out of my bullies in school. It didn't magically stop the bullying, but it made it much less effective when I could lunge at him/fake him out and make him flinch back in fear of a repeat.

I realised this once when I was helping a female friend move and I was proud of how I packed all her pots and pans into a single box. She called me over a bit later because she wasn't able to lift it on her own, so we had to split the contents across two boxes, I didn't even consider weight to be an issue while packing as long as the box wasn't in danger of breaking.

Guess we're lucky that the US military is armed and ready to find WMDs in the next middle eastern country to fall afoul of the US's foreign policy goals (and butcher some civvies while they're at it. Fun!).

But sure, Russia, China and so on. I prefer to focus on what the military's actually been up to instead of the (real) threats they use for recruitment propaganda.

All Egyptian telcos are basically state-run even if they're not listed as state owned. iirc all network infrastructure is leased from TEData (TE = Telecom Egypt) and so they have the ability to block arbitrary ip addresses or mitm traffic.

A side effect of this is that there's no real competition between ISPs in Egypt, since theyre all forced to lease the same infrastructure at the same rates, and are forbidden from building their own. I'm a little salty about this fact, since it's the reason why I could only get a 2Mbit connection to my old apartment until I moved abroad.

The Arabic in the header image is about as fucked up as possible.

The letter ordering is wrong (ltr instead of rtl). The word ordering is wrong (ltr instead of rtl). Somehow they also managed to get the letters not to connect to each other.

Great job Guardian! 10/10

Also worth noting is that in many countries Pharmacists can prescribe certain classes of medicines, again excluding most stimulants and opioids. But need some ciprofloxacin? Just rock up to your pharmacy and ask.

I'm also north african (in case the arabic in my parent comment didn't give it away). Can you even be racist against your own broad ethnic group (by asking a member of it to not just paint large swathes of it as "vile and barbaric", no less)?

You know what? Don't answer that last question.

"Vile and barbaric" lmao. Is this the Arab equivalent of an uncle tom in the wild? عمو توم?

Are there issues with the treatment of women in north africa? Sure, and we should address that, but please keep your self-loathing to yourself.

I think we could combine all of those into an efficiency tax, any productivity that outpaces the baseline of what an average (otherwise untrained) highschool graduate can produce is taxed in proportion to the relative increase in productivity.

There are sunni and shia arabs too, that's a separate distinction. It's more that Iranians and Arabs are two distinct cultures with different languages and histories (though a lot of the more recent history is common or shared). It's like confusing Spain and Poland, yes, they're both European nations that use the latin alphabet, but you'd be wrong to call them both Iberian because of that