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Israel/Palestine

comradebillyboy

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3. Neither Hamas nor the Gazan population are Shia. But they

Reply to Richard D (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2024, 11:40 AM

May 2024

do want a fundamentalist Sunni Islamist state, from the river to the sea. Iran is happy to abet the slaughter of Sunni Arabs in Gaza and the Occupied Territories since they are neither Persian nor Shia. The death of all those Sunni Arabs in Palestine is marvelous propaganda for their cause. Oddly enough the rest of the Sunni Arab world wrote off the Palestinian cause long ago.

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