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Congratulations comrade!!! I’m so happy for you

Thank you comrade, I needed this.

Im arab and will try to speak on an arab state (I am biased, since I am in favor of the idea). This is absolutely not possible in the next 40 (very optimistic view) years, but will be set in the far future.

It’s a very multi faceted problem tbh. But i think it can be split into three big ones, concerning the peninsula, levant and north africa:

The peninsula should be one. It’s less historic/cultural difference that there’s multiple monarchies, but political (and British fuckery of course). Yemen is more complex. I don’t want to speak confidently, but from my limited understanding, I think a republic composing of the entire peninsula is still the best choice (?). Provinces at least, maybe.

It gets complex with the levant and especially north africa. While they are all arabs, they have different conditions. It’s made up of republics (and Jordan) who, despite the modern nations being artificial created after the dissolution of the Ottomans and British/French occupation, they still have roots in actual history, and it can’t be waved away as easily as the Peninsula’s monarchies (i.e. Palestine, Iraq, Syria off the top of my head). There’s also the fact that it has more minorities than the Peninsula. The Kurdish, Yazidis, Assyrians, Circassians. (These are the non-Arab minorities. There are arab minorities such as the Druze and Alawites) In fairness, China is very ethnically diverse too, however the PRC is not based on Han-nationalism. My armchair professional solution? Republics (the Peninsula would be a republic too alongside it, as a reference)

North Africa is the hardest, imo (I know the least about their conditions, so it may not be actually hard but just me not knowing enough lol). However they’ve had the most major Arab nationalist movements, so it’s not impossible. Off the top of my head, there’s the Copts, Berbers (and all the history and differences inbetween) and Nubians. I won’t touch on this too much, but in this scenario, they’d either not be included in the Arab union (unlikely? Egyptian/Libyan history for ref) or be included as republics?

I think the best answer would be a federation that would integrate overtime. a complete Arab nation despite pan-Arabism, would have to be very diverse politically (not that it’s contradictory, but explicitly noting) Of course this is assuming it would be state-atheist/secular, a unitary islamic republic across the whole three regions would implode in civil war in 3 seconds lmao. I’m curious how the historic ML Arab parties thought of Arab nationalism however.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk. I think about this question a lot to myself honestly and would appreciate Arab comrades on lemmygrad for corrections and thoughts.

I used to know one, they were a very sweet person. They were a closeted queer and in a rural area so they did understandably vent a lot about living in China. I still think about them sometimes

Edit: oh I re-read, overseas people too, One was total doomer and talked a lot about “liberating China” lol

English. Arabic is very neglected translation-wise and mixing LTR and RTL is mindnumbing

On the first point, it reminded me a lot of this https://redsails.org/critica-sterile-negativa

“Fuck people with eating disorders, amirite fellow leftists? I’m totally not a fed.” -

From someone who suffered from an eating disorder because of lifelong PTSD, go fuck yourself

Even though the land could not yet absorb sixteen million, nor even eight, enough could return, if not to form the Jewish State (which a few extremists publicly demanded), at least to prove that the enterprise was one that blessed him that gave [Britain] as well as him that took [Zionism] by forming for England a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.

Another good quote, about Israel being a European (later US) colonial outpost. A big cop-out too is how they claim their homeland in west Asia, but still believe in the Oriental “civilization v. barbarity” (of course, they believe themselves to be the floodgates protecting “civilization”). No matter how hard they try to pretend, they will never outgrow their European racism, lol.

You’re laughing. Cowbee crushed 98k innocent Lemmy users with his comically large Communism bag, and you’re laughing.

Big Dino doesn’t want you to know where its funding goes

close Ahlan wa-sahlan

mean Welcome in arabic

Hello اهلًا وسهلًا !

“Praise be to Allah.”

Assuming we live in the same region West Asia, then I fully agree and it’s refreshing to see someone worry about this too here. AI climate change and meat industry is catastrophic and will straight up destroy our region and force us all out, all in the name of treats and capitalism I hope we get to live to see us make a 180 (through a breakthrough, revolution or just capitalism crumbling) and save us from the brink of uninhabitance

Solidarity brother

How dare you doubt my Iranian friend living in a gated community in Miami Florida and doesn’t speak Farsi/never been to Iran? Listen to Iranians smh…

Trust the plan. It’s all been building up to this, folks!

Proudly in favor

A year and two ago I thought west Asia wouldn’t have a breakthrough in decades, I’m happy Iran proved me wrong. The fact in merely a matter of weeks the chance of the US indefinitly withdrawing from west Asia is now a very real possibility, and Israeli society is collapsing from within is something I thought I’d only ever get to see in at least 3 decades. A flash of hope in a sea of despair

We will both live to see imperialism die and that makes me very happy