Tuesday, December 16, 2025

this reflects a bias in the white house and longstanding reaganite policy to prop up arab crazies to fight the communists, who they see as trying to restrict their "religious freedom" and are therefore seen as reliable allies, but negates history and empirical reality on the ground.

remember that jared kushner said the administration doesn't think history matters, which is the most retarded thing i've ever heard.

the reality is that gaza has almost no history inside of the arab world, as it's been under turkish rule since the crusades and was a key part of the roman empire until the 7th century, at the latest. the region was periodically under some kind of arab occupation for a few centuries from about 700-1000 that ended over a thousand years ago. the gulf monarchies have had no control over this area for many centuries and really have no business trying to decide it's future.

the problem is that most decision makers in washington just don't know that; they think the region must be arab because it's muslim, which itself is even not really true. they're also propping up the arabs to keep the iranians out. unlike the arab peninsula, persia actually has a long history in gaza, and that's not going to work due to the geography, specifically the massive desert, which we should not forget is partly manmade from overfarming. the fact that the gulf monarchies have all of this money all of a sudden doesn't open up a royal road from the desert to damascus.

if you don't understand history, or don't care, or understand it poorly, you're likely to create the same mistakes over and over. 

at some point, the fact that recent attempts by monarchist gulf arabs to colonize the levant with radical versions of islam are the cause of most of the problems on the ground rather than the solution to the instability needs to be understood to get passed this. 

take solace in the realization that the oil is running out, the temperatures in the area are climbing to uninhabitable levels and the small area of the region that is fertile after millennia of desertification is falling into the sea. this attempt to make arabia great again won't last much longer. their towers will fall, and their cities will crumble. the people of the levant need to tough it out.

our society's reliance on oil will cause it to make bad decisions and align with bad actors. i've said many times that if you want much of this to end, you should start by boycotting, divesting and sanctioning the oil industry as best as you can.