RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 71%
I also mentioned bigotry. I am aware she is a TERF.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 45%
Yes, she is Algerian (North African) and that was a major reason if not the reason why she was targeted.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 82%
I hope she pays dearly for her racism and bigotry.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 66%
I hope she wins and gets justice.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 97%
They have been running concentration and labor camps since 1948
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-little-known-concentration-and-labor-camps-1948-1955/
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 50%
The French didn't stop being assholes, it was only a few months ago when an anti-Arab and Muslim song went viral. Imane has been demonized by Western outlets, politicians and other celebrities, because she is an Algerian woman who defeated an European women.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 9%
You are blaming Russia for the West's long tradition of white supremacy and racism. Algeria only freed itself from brutal French rule in 1962. Bigotry towards Algerians and North Africans is engrained in France and across Europe.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 20%
Always blame Russia, even when it is just your old white supremacy that is prevalent in Europe and North America. Do you think the Russians were the reason for the French occupation of Algeria that resulted in millions dead?
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 96%
I really hope there's a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 93%
Thank you. This comment got me to start !arabiccalligraphy.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 98%
language of the enemy
what have we done to him? I hate him even more than I did before reading this.
Edit: I didn't expect my comment to track. I may as well take this opportunity to post a Chrisitan Arab's perspective on Arabic
Consider a language spoken by Christians for more than fifteen hundred years. Its early masters composed exquisite poetry, pioneering a tradition that still flourishes today. Many of the great works of Christian thought were composed in this language; many of the most significant texts of philosophy, medicine, and astronomy were preserved in it. The Bible could be read in it for centuries before it could be read in English, French, German, or Spanish. Today it is spoken and written across Europe and North America, as well as Asia and Africa; it features prominently in modern political thought and advocacy. I am speaking, of course, of Arabic.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/08/arabic-a-christian-language
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy in 2015 explains how Israelis do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtNFXL_ykg
tl;dw: they don't see Palestinians as humans
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
Here's another quote where he was more honest [emphasis mine]:
[It is the] iron law of every colonizing movement, a law which knows of no exceptions, a law which existed in all times and under all circumstances. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else – or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempts to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not “difficult”, not “dangerous” but IMPOSSIBLE! … Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky
Yet, nearly half the comments here blame the Palestinians for the natural response Jabotinsky accurately predicted.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 85%
Killing the negotiator... Zionists never wanted peace, not even in 1923.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
Why did the Greeks, Persians and Romans want it when they were pagan? and the Egyptians long before them.
Trade routes, natural resource, strategic location, ...
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
worked
is doing a lot of lifting
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
This tacit racism and ahistorical bigotry gets upvoted. Just awful. Western meddling and Zionism is the cause.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 66%
No it hasn't, only since WW1 due to Western meddling.
Europe has a history of more brutal and longer wars. They even brought some wars our way during the Crusades.
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 75%
The Middle East has been a powder keg for a long time,
no, only since WW1 due to French and British designs, and since WW2 due to US and Israel
It is also ironic that a lot of this bigotry is coming from some of the most violent people throughout history, even in peaceful times
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
What would you say is the defining factor for those competing nationalisms?
indigenous vs. people from Ukraine and Poland
RadioFreeArabia 1 month ago • 100%
As bad as you may think Israel is, it gets worse. I usually can stomach reading anything, but the following two books by Ilan Pappe were too much for me and I couldn't finish them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2856775-the-biggest-prison-on-earth
I am glad the false narrative on Israel is finally being challenged. For years Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and anti-Zionist voices were ignored and marginalized.
> As the US invasion of Iraq, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate onslaught on Gaza demonstrate, however, it is also often the most powerful nations that violate the most important principles of international law.
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 50%
He's Ukrainian, take him back!
Listen to Giden Levy speaking in 2015 on how Israeli society lives with the occupation https://youtu.be/3EtNFXL_ykg
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
He just represents the will of the majority. Listen to Giden Levy speaking in 2015 on how Israeli society lives with the occupation https://youtu.be/3EtNFXL_ykg
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
Hamas are reacting to a brutal occupation, they didn't start this. Per international laws their actions are legal and justified.
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
Yet majority in Israel agrees with him. Listen to Giden Levy speaking in 2015 on how Israeli society lives with the occupation https://youtu.be/3EtNFXL_ykg
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
No, this is Israel's standard. Listen to Giden Levy speaking in 2015 on how Israeli society lives with the occupation https://youtu.be/3EtNFXL_ykg
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
Previous poll before Biden dropped: https://lemmy.world/post/17415086
https://archive.ph/JgNQg
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
Short sighted of them to exit the ARM business when they sold XScale to Marvell in 2006.
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
Assuming good faith, perhaps he didn't fully understand the implications of the bill. You know how old people are with technology. Even good people can pass bad laws if they don't understand what they are legislating and the consequences of it.
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
- expensive
- better alternatives abound
- corporate has questionable morality
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 80%
Sabaya is plural for captives and is genderless, both male and female captives are Sabaya
You don’t have to take my word for it https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=سبايا&op=translate
The dictionary definition is:
سَبْي [مفرد]: الجمع: سُبِيّ (لغير المصدر): 1- مصدر سبَى. 2- مأسور “رجلٌ سَبْيٌ”. • السَّبْي: النِّساءُ؛ لأنهنّ يأسرن القلوب، أو لأنهنّ يُسْبَين. II سَبِيّ [مفرد]: الجمع: سَبايا، مؤنث: سَبِيّة وسَبِيّ، جمع مؤنث سَبايا: صفة ثابتة للمفعول من سبَى: مأسور، أسير “أُخذت نساءُ الأعداء سَبايا”.
The definition applies to men and women clearly. 2- مأسور “رجلٌ سَبْيٌ”.
Literally the word means taking something from a place to another, the below example shows how “wine” can be a sabyyah (feminine singular of sabaya) if it is carried from one country to another سَبَى الخَمْرَ،
السَّبْيُ: أَخْذُ شَيْءٍ مِنْ بَلَدٍ إلى بَلَدٍ آخَرَ قَهْراً، يُقال: سَبَى الخَمْرَ، يَسْبِيها، سَبْياً، أيْ: حَمَلَها مِنْ بَلَدٍ إلى بَلَدٍ. ويأْتي السَّبْيُ بِـمعنى الأسْرِ، يُقالُ: سَبَى العَدُوَّ سَبْياً وسِباءً: إذا أَسَرَهُ وأَخَذَهُ قَهْراً، فهو سَبِيٌّ، والأُنْثَى سَبِيَّةٌ ومَسْبِيَّةٌ، والنِّسْوَةُ سَبايا. ومِن مَعانيهِ أيضاً: الإِبْعادُ، ومِنْهُ قَوْلُهُم: سَباكَ اللهُ، أيْ: أَبْعَدَكَ.
The Arabic words for female slave are amat أمة and jariyat جارية , plural إماء Imaa’ and جواري Jawari
RadioFreeArabia 2 months ago • 100%
If I had to buy a pickup truck I'd buy a Suzuki Carry and call it a day