I do hope that's sarcasm. But if you look at top Iranian leadership, they are about as 'white' looking if not more so then Netanyahu. But in the west we tend to go by stereotypes not reality when talking of far away lands! Persians are not Arabic. The majority of Jewish Israelis are also not Ashkanazi (or are only part Ashkanazi) even though most of it's leadership still is. And even Ashkanazi Israelis are much less stereotypically 'white' looking on average then the far more intermixed (on average) American Jewish population. Most Jewish Israelis are brown people in reality. But Israel is also still a Western colonial project with all that entails.
Iran is also a far more sophisticated country then Iraq ever was. It after all has a long history as a real nation not just a colonial creation (this is also true of Afghanastan!) and was once the core of it's own massive regional empire. But this is exactly why Israeli and US leadership hate them so much! They want complete effective control over the whole region and Iran is in their way. And now some are (very foolishly) trying to take on not just Iran but potentially China and others in order to not only obtain such control but to fit their own false story of dominance and supremacism...
It's obviously sarcasm. And yes Iran has undergone a massive Westernization in recent years. Especially before they became our enemies. And Iran has a lot of diversity, as does the entire region.
But in America, and around the West and the world, the perception is that Israel is white people and Iran is Middle Eastern terrorists with stuff on their heads.
Very well put. Israel and United States are rich twerps with no history or life experience throwing bombs at a sage wise old civilization that has been around for longer than Americans can comprehend.
Thanks! It is remarkable. One has to be incredably ignorant and misinformed to actually think of most Israelies as being white but Iranians as not, and this nonsence belief (like so many others) seems to transcend American political divides, including on Zionism. Then again, we largely are just that (Ignorant and misinformed about the larger world) in the west. This phenomenon also shows just how much the concept of race is a social construct largely not baised on substance.
However, the US and Israel both do have real history, it's just very shallow by comparison to Iran! The US also does have plenty of our own real vernacular culture and folk traditions by now, but not much that is widely unifying these days other then a very distorted view of the larger world! And even then, not on the specifics of our (widely diverging) distorted views. Israelis have even less (far less!) that is at all unifying to work with outside of the political and Zionist stories they are fed from childhood.
The irony of history. The US uses proxies, as they started to do during the Contra war and as they do now in Ukraine, while at the same time being used as a proxy for Israel in its imperialism. Sadism and masochism combine to churn a filthy, brew.
It's ok the people in it were brown enough for it not to matter.
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I do hope that's sarcasm. But if you look at top Iranian leadership, they are about as 'white' looking if not more so then Netanyahu. But in the west we tend to go by stereotypes not reality when talking of far away lands! Persians are not Arabic. The majority of Jewish Israelis are also not Ashkanazi (or are only part Ashkanazi) even though most of it's leadership still is. And even Ashkanazi Israelis are much less stereotypically 'white' looking on average then the far more intermixed (on average) American Jewish population. Most Jewish Israelis are brown people in reality. But Israel is also still a Western colonial project with all that entails.
Iran is also a far more sophisticated country then Iraq ever was. It after all has a long history as a real nation not just a colonial creation (this is also true of Afghanastan!) and was once the core of it's own massive regional empire. But this is exactly why Israeli and US leadership hate them so much! They want complete effective control over the whole region and Iran is in their way. And now some are (very foolishly) trying to take on not just Iran but potentially China and others in order to not only obtain such control but to fit their own false story of dominance and supremacism...
It's obviously sarcasm. And yes Iran has undergone a massive Westernization in recent years. Especially before they became our enemies. And Iran has a lot of diversity, as does the entire region.
But in America, and around the West and the world, the perception is that Israel is white people and Iran is Middle Eastern terrorists with stuff on their heads.
Very well put. Israel and United States are rich twerps with no history or life experience throwing bombs at a sage wise old civilization that has been around for longer than Americans can comprehend.
Thanks! It is remarkable. One has to be incredably ignorant and misinformed to actually think of most Israelies as being white but Iranians as not, and this nonsence belief (like so many others) seems to transcend American political divides, including on Zionism. Then again, we largely are just that (Ignorant and misinformed about the larger world) in the west. This phenomenon also shows just how much the concept of race is a social construct largely not baised on substance.
However, the US and Israel both do have real history, it's just very shallow by comparison to Iran! The US also does have plenty of our own real vernacular culture and folk traditions by now, but not much that is widely unifying these days other then a very distorted view of the larger world! And even then, not on the specifics of our (widely diverging) distorted views. Israelis have even less (far less!) that is at all unifying to work with outside of the political and Zionist stories they are fed from childhood.
“Well, if the Blacks, and the Puerto Ricans, and the Chicanos and the Indians all get what they want, then there won’t be any United States...?”
-- Oregon high school student questioning a Cherokee speaker from the American Indian Movement
Iran is Indo-European, not Arab. That's why it's more sophisticated.
The irony of history. The US uses proxies, as they started to do during the Contra war and as they do now in Ukraine, while at the same time being used as a proxy for Israel in its imperialism. Sadism and masochism combine to churn a filthy, brew.
Hey, I thought Israel was only allowed to bomb PALESTINIAN hospitals!
Despairing while watching helplessly US genocide in Gaza for eighteen (18) months -- Cecilia Bartoli - Gelido in ogni vena (immortal Vivaldi)
https://youtu.be/EMd7i5Bhd1E?si=6KE4HJoEhze-Ddi4
Sina's volume is low
Wow