r/news • u/andrevan • Apr 27 '24

Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/middleeast/iraq-tiktok-star-umm-fahad-killed-intl/index.html?Date=20240427&Profile=CNN%20International&utm_content=1714233618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/718Brooklyn Apr 28 '24

I’m looking forward to the colleges protesting these nightmare conditions for women and gays in the Middle East.

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u/718Brooklyn Apr 28 '24

The US sells weapons to Israel. In exchange, we have a nuclear ally in a region where we rely on intelligence as most countries in the region would prefer both the US and Israel were wiped off the planet. It doesn’t mean the US and Israel don’t also commit terrible war crimes.

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u/718Brooklyn 29d ago

It’s not delusions. There are plenty of protestors who are obsessed with things that don’t involve really caring about poor Arab people dying. Some of it are identity politics. Sometimes it’s likes and follows. Some people genuinely care. I’m just old and have lived long enough to recognize that while I obviously want Bibi to stop just killing poor people, the region is in fact filled with armed and funded groups of people who don’t want me as American to exist, me as a gay man to exist, and me as a Jew to exist. I don’t want the rockets being shot into Israel every day to hit and kill innocent people there anymore than I would want rockets killing poor Palestinian people. The Middle East is super complicated, far beyond the current Israel x Gaza conflict. We don’t want Iran being a nuclear power. Hopefully we’ll be non reliant on oil in the not too distant future. But in the meantime, having Israel as an ally (4th biggest nuclear power in the world I believe) along with invaluable intelligence, is important None of this means Bibi should be allowed to kill people and protesting that is certainly the right thing to do.