“If Blinken and the US administration would have liked this war to be over, this war would be over. Continuing to supply Israel with weapons and to beg Israel to stop the war is quite a farce. This is not international relations, this is a children’s game.” – Gideon Levy, Haaretz

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  • RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.worldOPtoArabs@lemmy.worldArabic, A Christian Language
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    also most arabs was worshipping multiple gods like el lat and el ouzza and not christianity.

    that’s false, Christianity was widespread among Arabs in the Levant, Najran (South Saudi Arabia) and in Beth Qatarya (Eastern Arabia from Kuwait to UAE)

    the Kaaba 🕋 had murals of Jesus and Mary inside of it that Muhammad didn’t object to or ask to be defaced, mentioned in tradition but the murals have been lost as the Kaaba was rebuilt many times over the years

    The polytheism or shirk mentioned in the Quran was not paganism, but syncretic Christianity that developed in Arabia with elements of Arabian paganism, not unlike what happened with Christianity elsewhere. Brigid the Celtic goddess becoming a Christian saint. The Quran spends more time arguing with Christians than with pagans, makes it clear who the target audience was.

    The level of arabic in quoran is extraordinary

    poems are harder to write than prose, the Quran is in prose





  • 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





  • 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.