#saudis' western

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Canadian government used an opaque U.S. military sales program to provide Saudi Arabia with billions of dollars worth of armoured vehicles, some of which were shipped out urgently after the Kingdom joined the war in Yemen, according to government documents and an arms sales database consulted by The Breach.

It’s the second-largest weapons export deal in Canadian history. But the Saudi clients have never been disclosed by the Canadian government. Nor has the fact been reported that the deal was struck at the behest of a U.S. plan to beef up the Saudi military.

In 2009, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, a Canadian crown corporation signed a deal on behalf of weapons manufacturer General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to provide 724 light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to Saudi Arabia. Government documents show that, as late as 2018, deliveries of the $2.9-billion worth of LAVs were still being fulfilled.

The vehicles manufactured in Canada were of the same make later seen being used in Saudi Arabia’s operations in Yemen for years.

The documents provide more evidence that the Canadian government may have knowingly supplied armoured vehicles for use in Yemen.  [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @halfwar-halfpeace, @vague-humanoid

[dougielombax]

Okay!

So!

This is Mount Ararat! On the border between Armenia and Turkey. (Formerly part of western armenia)

This is Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia.

Don’t get them mixed up.

[kemetic-dreams]

What is the DNA haplogroup of modern Egyptians?

Haplogroup E1b1b1

Wikipedia (E1b1b): E-M215, also known as E1b1b and formerly E3b, is a major human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is a division of the macro-haplogroup E-M96, which is defined by the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation M215. In other words, it is one of the major patrilineages of humanity, linking from father-to-son back to a common male-line ancestor ("Y-chromosomal Adam"). It is a subject of discussion and study in genetics as well as genetic genealogy, archaeology, and historical linguistics.

The E-M215 haplogroup has two ancient branches that contain all the known modern E-M215, E-M35 and E-M281 subclades. Of the latter two, the only branch that has been confirmed in a native population outside of Ethiopia is E-M35. E-M35 in turn has two known branches, haplogroup E-V68 and haplogroup E-Z827, which contain by far the majority of all modern E-M215 carrying men. E-V68 and E-V257 have been found in highest numbers in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, but also in lower numbers in parts of the Middle East and Europe, and in isolated populations of Southern Africa.

The Study authors consider Mtdna L0 thru L4 exclusively African.

Wikipedia quote: Haplogroup L3 descendants notwithstanding, the designation "haplogroup L" is typically used to designate the family of mtDNA clades that are most frequently found in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, all non-African haplogroups coalesce onto either haplogroup M or haplogroup N, and both these macrohaplogroups are simply sub-branches of haplogroup L3. Consequently, L in its broadest definition is really a paragroup containing all of modern humanity, and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

repeat - and all human mitochondrial DNA from around the world are subclades of haplogroup L.

Basal J*(xJ1,J2) is found at its highest frequencies among the Soqotri/Socotra (71.4%).

The people of the Island of Soqotri/Socotra are the genetically PUREST of ALL ARABS.

This is what they look like!

[infiniteglitterfall]

i/p discourse in a nutshell

I'm reading this long-form article about Edward Said, the guy who I've seen credited with imposing American views of race and ethnicity onto Israel and Palestine.

It's interesting to see how very American and privileged he was in some ways.

(When a Vietnam War protest disrupted one of his college classes, he called security. What a preppie.)

But this one line (in the article, not Said's own work) answered a question that's been bugging me for months: why do people so often say, "The West Bank has been occupied since 1967," when Jordan occupied it for nearly twenty years before that?

Israel’s Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, who doggedly opposed a Palestinian state, was encouraging Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, territories seized from Palestinians in 1967.

Territories seized... from... Palestinians?

Egypt had seized Gaza, and was holding it under military occupation and treating people like crap.

Jordan had seized the West Bank, made it a part of Jordan, and called East Jerusalem Jordan's "second capital city."

Not only did it give Palestinians Jordanian citizenship, but Palestinians in the West Bank continued to be citizens of Jordan for almost 20 years after Israel annexed the West Bank in the Six-Day War.

Jordan didn't terminate their citizenship, or its claim to the West Bank, until Palestine declared independence in 1988.

Israel very clearly seized the territories from Egypt and Jordan.

It also doesn't say Israel seized them "from Palestine," the country. Because the leaders of Arab Palestine (as opposed to Jewish Palestine) chose not to declare independence in 1948, and instead to screw everyone over by lobbying the Arab League to invade, destroy Israel, and divide up the land.

It says Israel seized them "from Palestinians," the individual people in those territories.

But that's not true either; individual Palestinians kept their homes.

What it seems to mean is "from Palestinians," the collective people.

From THE Palestinians; the ones who we assume were there first and who were driven out, not by the Arab League's invasion, but by angry racist Jews stealing their homes.

It's striking because it illustrates how successfully the entire history has been retconned to focus solely on one very specific, ahistorical narrative.

And how easily you can fill people's lack of knowledge about the subject with implication and innuendo, if you choose just the right wording.

[news4dzhozhar]

[zvaigzdelasas]

T minus one week until the BRICS summit

[rafole]

crazy how KSA uses sportswashing in an attempt to “westernize” when the things they’re trying to distance themselves from were bought upon by Western imperialism in the Gulf states.

It is difficult for Westerners to criticize KSA without coming off as Islamaphobic, but modern Islam extremism is not a religious phenomenon, but a response to Western imperialism. Which is why it's completely valid to criticize KSA's actions, especially with their history of systematic oppression against women.

But you must realize that you cannot, as a Westerner, just blame Arab countries for these issues without holding the West accountable as well.

[2percentsugar]

>read book by man hailed as the best spec fic writer working today

>its mid

>express confusion that it is so well known on reddit

>"oh dude thats his worst book, read this one instead"

>read it

>its worse

[latenightsinpemberley]

not one of my female co-workers glamorising sharia law countries bc she's dating an arab man. that just so happens to come from a filthy rich family 🙄

[comradejoanmir]

americans when america does american things they don't like: "what are we, ASIANS????"

[kemetic-dreams]

The term “Middle East” itself is rooted in Eurocentrism, as it references the region's location relative to Europe rather than its actual geographical location.

The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India"

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[luminousblankets]

All the background context we haven’t gotten before leading to where we are now.

If you want to understand how the middle east ended up where it currently is, this is the historical context that explains it. I haven’t been to a single history class that mentioned any of this.

Here’s the link to the original creator’s video:

[earthleave]

Strange Clouds! 😱 | WATCH OUT For These Clouds 😨 | #viral

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[digitalislamicguide]

Saudi Model Alqahtani at Miss Universe Sparks Controversy with Shahada Flag

Rumy Alqahtani’s participation in Miss Universe, coupled together with her revealing apparel and the Saudi flag displaying the shahada, has raised Muslim social media concern. Orthodox Muslims see her involvement as opposite to Islamic modesty, reflecting wider worries about westernisation underneath Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reforms. Photo: Instagram/rumy_alqahtani Rumy Alqahtani, a…