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Several months after Hamas’ 2006 election victory, Haniyeh sent a letter to U.S. President Georg W. Bush, in which he called on the “American government to have direct negotiations with the elected government”, offered a long-term truce with Israel, while accepting a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and urged an end to the international boycott, claiming that it would “encourage violence and chaos”.'. The U.S. government did not respond and maintained its boycott.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
 

Etihad Rail is one component of the Gulf Railway that will connect: Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. So far it is the only part that is completed. Each country is responsible for its length of the railroad. The Arabian Gulf region is the least populated part of Saudi Arabia and therefore the Saudi length of the track is a low priority for the Saudi government and work is scheduled to start in 2026.

 
[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I do enjoy the hypocrisy of Western leaders, they aren't even tacit about it anymore, and the public evidently are so propagandized as to justify genocide even when they think they oppose it.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The line is a bit more blurry on the East side than the West but this might just be my own bias coming from Lebanon.

I always thought Urban Hejaz and the Levant [and Egypt] share in a dialect continuum or at least a sprachbund, I don't know a lot of dialects that say مرق to mean pass except those two. Urban Hejazi dialects also drop the use of interdentals like in Lebanese. In the same way Bahrani dialect Bahrain/Eastern Saudi Arabia shares with Mesopotamia in having Akkadian and Aramaic influences.

Here's a fun comparison between Hejazi and Najdi dialects https://youtube.com/shorts/Fi9_bNiazOA

More aggressive in tone on average.

Only the Bedouin and Najdi dialects which happen to be over represented. Jeddawi in particular and other Urban Hejazi dialects are seen as effeminate https://youtu.be/AHWbA0b9bK4

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe -2 points 4 months ago
  1. Arabs at the rise of Islam already were speaking different dialects and so they took those differences with them.
  2. Different regions have had different influences, e.g. Coptic and Greek in Egypt, Punic, Latin and Amazigh in North Africa, Nubian in Sudan, and so on.
  3. 1400 years of divergent history, including different foreign rule in different regions.
[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm simply stating the facts as they are, it is not my fault that the Democratic Party lost Arab and Muslim American voters.

but I am absolutely willing to put off Palestine

How would this argument win over Arab and Muslim Americans? You are basically saying: "I don't care if you get genocided but you have to care about me". On the upside as the polls show, Trump is even more unpopular than Biden so you can't blame us if Trump wins, blame those who voted for him.

so I dont get shot

Arab and Muslim Americans are already getting shot. My personal recommendation is start exercising your 2nd amendment rights:

so you dont get deported

So be it but only if Darrell Issa is deported first

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brought to you by the only* democracy in the Middle East. If Israel is truly a democracy doesn't mean the people voted for genocide?

* not actually true

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 months ago

the Sahel countries too have a significant Arab minority but aren't part of the Arab League and not included in this map.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought this was going to be about the Linux distro

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 0 points 4 months ago

The highest point in Europe is actually in Asia, interesting...

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe -4 points 4 months ago

No, the US has been an empire from the start. Unless you don't count conquering and colonizing the indigenous peoples because they aren't "civilized" or something.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 14 points 4 months ago

She wasn't right about a lot of things, specially relating to the Middle East. Misguided at best, malicious at worst when it comes to the Middle East.

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