A quick look at the a Taliban’s network of friends:
Hamas and the Taliban are the same, hence the celebrations from Hamas. Neither are big on elections or freedom.
For Jews in Israel, “Antizionists” seek an even more hideous version of Afghanistan’s reality...
Of course the Taliban are cosy with Iran, the psychopaths behind most war in the region who publicly hang dissenters and hate women. Shared values...
And China won’t hang about. Not with all those natural resources they can take advantage of as well as increasing their influence...
Of course the Taliban are keen on the Islamic republic of Turkey, who have imprisoned the most journalists in the world and conduct a permanent racist war on Kurdishness....
It’s an open secret that Pakistan is helping (or dictating) the Taliban. The leadership were always welcomed, their soldiers got treatment, their children schooled and some own property there. Pakistan’s politicians have laughably rebranded them as “the new, civilized Taliban.”..
This is the network that the US and UK withdrawal has supercharged. This is the future.
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Post enlightenment, intellectuals used to debate the status of Jews. This was known as ‘the Jewish question’. For Jews, despite all their efforts, enlightenment ended in the gas chambers…
The new ‘Jewish question’ to fill the minds of intellectuals is called antizionism. It is a rallying call, and one of the most dominant ‘isms’ of our time…
Antisemitism is a fantasy version of Jews by racists. Likewise antizionism is a fantasy version of Jewish life, politics and history, using the same stereotypes and accusations
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You’ll never see this nursery rhyme the same again....
1/5 It’s about impoverished Jews collecting Oranges and Lemons shipped by Livorno Jews to St Clement’s (Eastcheap - by the Thames wharves)...
2/5 They were fronted the money near St Martins (Outwich) and if they couldn’t sell their produce (to pay back what they owed) they endedup in Newgate, where they would hear the chimes of St Sepulchre opposite the Old Bailey...
3/5 Jews lived in tenements in Shoreditch and Stepney - places like this were packed with thousands of Jewish immigrants , mainly Ashkenazi but also Sephardi...