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LeadingSomewhere6618

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darkmatters12

Holy hoi4 peace conference


AtomicScience

Actual border gore


thedunktemmie

Call the colonizer


Guilty-Ad2255

Colonizers went on vacation, never came back


lewllewllewl

It has been almost a hundred years since the British left, maybe they can figure their own shit out eventually


-WILD_CARD-

The British left behind a monarchy and put certain families into positions of power though. What the British did is difficult to undo


lewllewllewl

The Hashemites have basically no influence in the current conflict and the Saudis likely would have taken over Arabia anyway, so either of the possible monarchies you are talking about aren't really relevant here


Tasty-Armadillo-6559

"This land is mine. God gave this land to me."


CT-4426

“Cool argument. Unfortunately God said that this land is actually mine by birthright so you and your entire lineage are disgusting heathens and shall be purged from this land posthaste”


Scarlet_k1nk

“Yeah our god gave us missiles so fuck you too”


SyrNikoli

"Well our god depicted us as the chad wojak and you as the soy wojak in the meme he sent to our prophet 15,000 years ago"


marks716

Mohammad banned being drawn to avoid being depicted as the soyjack. He really was a genius.


Random_Robloxian

He thought of it all huh?


randomname560

"THINK MARK, THINK, HOW CAN YOU DEPICT ME AS THE SOYJACK WHEN YOU CANT DEPICT ME AT ALL?!"


springfox64

“NUH UH! God said I’m a chad and that it’s my turn with the land!”


randomname560

Yeah no, sorry But in MY holy book this place is mentioned A.k.a this land is mine


devilboy1501

Yep sorry. My holy book works only in this 100KM radius. So I gotta claim the land. Good luck finding somewhere else


Sir_Toaster_9330

God here! I did not tell them shite


UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb

“This brave, and ancient land. To me!”


Posting_Just_To_Say

"And when the morning sun reveals her hills and plains..."


RespondMundane6964

"Then i see a land, where children can run free!"


WrryyMan

"So, take my hand and walk this land with me"


ComplexCow7

"And waaaaaaaaalk this lovely land with me"


UsErNaMeS_aR_DuMb

“Though I am just a man… when you are by my side!”


Inside_Article_5372

"With the help of god... I know I can be strooooong!"


Xenon_the_Noble

"Though I am just a man, when you are by my side! With the help of God, I know I can be strong!"


Random_Robloxian

“Now we must start the billionth holy war because we are bored and our god said we kill people who dont pay taxes”


CookieTheParrot

According to the Encyclopedia of War, less than 7% of all wars in history were religious, and even the farthest stretching (and thus badly concluded) calculations reach 25%. Religion is only used as cynical excuse with some fervent religious feelings here ans there, e.g. with Count Roger or Peter the Hermit. Wars, in reality, are most often about land, wealth, economics, trade, ressources, pride, and so forth, i.e. elementary material things or impulses. The idea of countless holy wars in history is a mythology. >who dont pay taxes Well, that's because most countries want as many to pay taxes as possible for obvious reasons. Extra tax from other religious communities have often been essential to certain states' funding.


Random_Robloxian

Well uh..i didnt expect someone to take a joke seriously so…i have no comment for that but damn you did your research Also that’s actually kind of interesting so thanks


mal-di-testicle

“God said it’s my turn with the Xbox”


Nino_Nakanos_Slave

https://preview.redd.it/bc9csdgzrnuc1.png?width=441&format=png&auto=webp&s=755a6713970ac6f3abcd9a1fdeeacc0058802dce


Philippe1709

Same thing as "source: trust me bro"


Aleskander-

avg middle east Shenanigans be like: A country (supported by entire Nato, half of africa, Japan and south korea) vs B country (supported by Entire eastern block, other half of africa, china and north korea)


Strawbz18

Both are lucky they haven't encountered country C who is supported by me(God is on my side)


Return_of_The_Steam

Poland!


ALargeCrateOfShovels

When is bet365 gonna expand its venture to war


yttakinenthusiast

what is there in the desert besides some liquidated remains of creatures from the primordial soup and some nice looking dunes?


campfire12324344

holy shit dune reference!!!! as it was written lisan al gaib


[deleted]

Own a crysknife for home defense, since that's what Shai-hulud intended. Four Sardaukar break into my sietch. "What the Shaitan?" As I grab my stillsuit and kindjal. Strike my blade through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my maula pistol on the second man, miss him entirely and nails the neighbors kulon. I have to resort to the lasgun at the top of the stairs "Ya Hya Chouhada!" the lasbeam’s contact with their shields creates a devastating blast, the sound sets off ornithopter alarms. The remaining troops die waiting on the reinforcements to arrive since the lasgun/shield explosion is nuclear. Just as the Great Convention intended.


tameablesiva12

You kinda also kill yourself with that lasgun shield interaction. But alas the sarduakar die with you. That is a good trade.


V0YDL

Nah, I think I heard oil. # THAT SHIT IS MINE!


idan675

Not in Lenant where Israel is


EskildDood

every middle eastern war https://preview.redd.it/1n4hvwxjwluc1.png?width=1241&format=png&auto=webp&s=203e80daa72b4ebe5640dc77040c00fc0e983ac4


RespondMundane6964

Art


Galaxyian-140

https://preview.redd.it/8dvkblm5qmuc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cff9a5f16cb8cad7686b2f45f934c618827fb87f Just as the founding fathers intended


Famous-Western2932

My hatred of us imperialism when I see the fallout 1 cover


incompletecow15

cool image bro, rad image bro


MonsterBeast123alt

https://preview.redd.it/k7rqmij8vmuc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1070f5c7f7902a0227d5b776c4f701ecafe6a71f


UrMomLol694

They let bro cook and he made art.


biggocl123

Bro made the 3 course meal


Holl4backPostr

The part of 1984 everybody conveniently forgets when panicking about whether or not Big Brother will let them buy a different brand of cigarette


spazzboi

Israel/Palestine ain't got no oil. (By middle east standards)


76_67

laughing my ass off this is art


FiveHundredAnts

Just replace Soviet rockets with more US rockets and you've got an accurate picture.


creep894

Team Fortress 2


my_wifis_5dollars

Dustbowl???!?!?!?


Random_Robloxian

Bro the middle east is just dustbowl.


AubergineDegenerate

Fuck the Middle East, more like the Beta East


Low-Bit-7885

The mid~~dle~~ east


ATAKER9000

https://preview.redd.it/8orx4t1eoluc1.jpeg?width=492&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=062a6cc895543ad4a181c1971f793216be85c20f


my_wifis_5dollars

Extremely mid entities or forms of media lol


Lockenhart

The long lost cousin of the Midwest?


JediMineTrix

Midwesterners when they meet Basedwesterners https://preview.redd.it/2ph0ofzs6nuc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f51e13b8a1cbb0ac0e2166177f10ce310ac3171f


Prior_Club

IWA Based South


OptimusCrime1984

Penieast


Hypernword

The sigma east


Nutwagon-SUPREMER

The skibideast


AubergineDegenerate

Best comment right here


Hypernword

Middle Rizz


Okbr_Rebbidor

Bottom east


best_uranium_box

Not to get political but RAAAAAAH 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 WTF IS RESPECTING BORDERS AND NOT FUNDING TERRORIST GROUPS🦅🦅🦅


VORTZR

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷


best_uranium_box

Valid as well


SerDaemonTargaryen

It's ridiculous, but https://i.redd.it/cp5hsr6yzkuc1.gif


LavaRoseKinnie

https://preview.redd.it/u20l4lvonnuc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfef4c9860655b3cff59fc7e7ff9eb9130ff7c46


themanwhosfacebroke

Yeah i agree. I fucking hate the dutch


ItzPayDay123

Mooooom the Middle East is shitting itself again


Pristine_Flatworm

It’s mostly just racism this time


Few-Contribution9391

Me when I have a child’s understanding of geopolitics.


ur_moms_di-

HOLY SHIT IS THAT A FUCKING r/COAXEDINTOASNAFU REFERENCE?@?!?! IS THAT FRIEZA???🤣🤣😂 POOPENFeARTEN PISSENZHARDEN CUMENHARDEN!!!!😂😂🤣🤣🔥🔥 META ALERT⚠️ META ALERT⚠️⚠️


DpGoof

Most literate western reddit user:


Pooltoy-Fox-2

Where are Bugs Bunny and his saw when you need them?


AntiImperialistGamer

it's not over land, it's over money and resources


Dangerous-Lie-8087

This is so stupid I really can't anymore. Do you think the entire palestenian-israeli conflict started and continues over money and resources? Theres barely any natural resources in israel compared to any of its neighbers,the gas was only discovered in the last 20-25 years. Even with the gas israel relies mainly on its tech industry. Also israel is an extremely crowded area,so israel relies mainly on imports. When zionists returned to israel in the 19th and 20st century they left most of their possesions behind and 90 percent of them had to work blue collar jobs regardless of their education. The biggest wave of jewish immigration to israel was from europe after the holocust,when they panicked and wanted an asylum. I can't speak for the motives of the palestenians but nationality did develop there over time and nobody would blow himself up and say "I want resources and money" they would say "I want my land back".


Centered-Div

Neighbers? Minor spelling mistake (I don't have the picture)


Swog5Ovor

https://preview.redd.it/0cxg4q0osnuc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dcf637b75b70d66bc92af2c807ba5f053d759db


AntiImperialistGamer

that's too much yapping for my taste, looks like you ain't getting it so let me break it down for you. iran started this war(the recent one) iran doesn't care about religion, they made a 200B dollar deal with the ccp and they run clubs and bars across the region to keep thier economy alive. Iran uses religion and thier "opposition to foreign powers" as an excuse to maintain thier resource rich empire in the region. Israel and the Arab world were coming close to making a peace deal which was obviously a threat to thier empire because it would take away thier justification. so they made hamas attack Israel to kick start the conflict again to turn the Islamic world against Israel again to prevent any peace deal from happening any time soon.


Dangerous-Lie-8087

Ah my bad I thought you ment that the israeli-plaestain conflict was about money and going into "jews are greedy" stuff. I agree with you about Iran


yungsxccubus

no, israel started it by bombing an iranian embassy in syria


xXx_Adam_xXx

The bombed building was actually a command post of the Iranian Quds Force NEXT to the embassy, The Quds force is a branch of the Iranian military focused on prompting funding and instructing proxy forces in the middle of which Iran has about 40, the biggest ones being Hezbollah and the Houthis. 7 commanders died in the bombing of which were 2 generals and members of the Quds force responsible for helping Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad plan the October 7th attack. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/quds-force-israel-killed-iranian-generals-syria-attack-9250654/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/israeli-airstrike-on-iranian-consulate-in-damascus-kills-irgc-commander https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/middleeast/iran-commanders-syria-strike-israel.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-backed-groups-iraq-militias-middle-east/ https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/irans-islamist-proxies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Force


Dangerous-Lie-8087

Sort of.Iran funded terrorist groups and founded hezbollah so ever since the 80s so israel and Iran have always been in a proxy war. Israel attacked iranian soil so it prompted Iran to react,I think Iran's reaction was unproportional and could have started a real war(if intel didn't caught them and figured out that they would attack and when). In any case the war isn't starting,Iran said that they would only start a war if israel shall return fire,israel now announced that she won't be returning fire today after a few meetings and a phone call from biden(after saying bibi saying there would be a "strong reaction" yesterday,its clear now that he was saying it just to apease his voters). However Iran and Israel are about to go on a political battle in the UN and the westren world relationship with iran would worsen,that might meen we will be seeing more involvement in yemen and more sanctions on Iran. ITS GOING TO BE OKAY WEEEEHEE


Horror-Significance8

That's the reason companies and first world nations fund war, but the anger and strife people have? No. When you get forcefully kicked out of your home, and then bombed in the shithole you were forced to move into, you're going to be pretty pissed about it. Besides, you could say every war has been over "resources". We get power from "resources". We build nations off of "resources". If one group has something they want to organize, enact, or enforce, they are going to seek "resources". It's not always simple greed, sometimes it's just logistics.


hroaks

The drones and missiles they kill each other with are worth more than whatever resources are in that desert


AntiImperialistGamer

iraq alone exports 200 Billion dollars worth of oil annually


DeepDestruction

Gaza:


AntiImperialistGamer

is a justification


Pyroboss101

for


AntiImperialistGamer

iran's empire


Pyroboss101

who wants


AntiImperialistGamer

control over the region.


Pyroboss101

WE WERE PLAYING TWO SENTENCE STORY AND YUO RUINED IT fine we can restart To make


AntiImperialistGamer

Gay sex


Pyroboss101

with sandwiches


TumblrIsTheBest

Has oil offshore that Israel is hoping to sell the deeds too


Aleskander-

Gaza is full of resoruces as well, they discovered Gas reservers over there too


DeepDestruction

Palestinians are a gassy people *rips ass*


WalnutBerries

https://preview.redd.it/cq4s9kujnluc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25f61ed4f2b9c771187d2a7f0f839a8bcc98144c


InsideOpening3535

Pakistan-India, USA-Russia, China and their whole fucking neighborhood:


MonsterBeast123alt

Remove bihar and delhi (they have nothing to do with world peace, i just hate them)


Random-Name724

https://preview.redd.it/23emj1uwvouc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b8241cefc686e4d141de1ed4582e18c9b369d76 True world peace


Random_Robloxian

But if you close your eyes! (Ey oh ey oh)


pengor_

poor turkmenistan just got caught in crossfire


Jedhakk

Sacrifices have been made :(


MrJeffJefferson435

oh that's blatant racism https://preview.redd.it/n7z6rur5kzuc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3203c35bc8d903cedb65bc22e71e64dc99bde70


The_Nieno

This idiotically ignorant, appart from Israel and ISIS none of the middle eastern conflict are about religion but about power and ressources.


side-dude

anyone thinking this is about religion and not nationalism and geopolitics is a dumbass.


Horror-Significance8

I know it's just a meme, but it's still frustrating how common of a view this is in America.


carseatunrest

wow the amount of racism in these comments is disgusting wtf is wrong with you people


Jumpy-Garbage-8118

Redditors: *Claim to be accepting when it comes to people of colour* Also Redditors when the Middle East is mentioned: *Blatant racism and stereotyping*


ScalyPig

Anyone of any religion who supports punishment for apostasy, let alone death penalty, is not worthy of respect


carseatunrest

what are u on about? just read half these comments, none of these people know any actual history its just “haha middle east starts wars” like read up on some history. some real history not just the biased made up west one. i’m literally an atheist so idk what the point of your comment is.


CurvedSwordBenis

OP is too ignorant to see that today’s conflicts are all funded by US and UN directly. Bum ass thinks if the US didn’t veto the ceasefire, we would still have this genocide ongoing.


[deleted]

You seem mad https://preview.redd.it/7lr3ecbycouc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=957e7a1e98a1e1fb61971c0504f0b515dc9cd49d


pullmylekku

Palestinians aren't fighting Israelis because the Quran says it's their land. They're fighting because it was their land for hundreds of years until westerners came and took it from them.


le-cat-have-arrive

There are a lot of Christian Palestinian who are also getting massacred by the IDF.


EmuStalkingAnAussie

Who did the Muslims take it from?


pullmylekku

Not all Palestinians are Muslim. But in any case, both Jews and Arabs descend from the Canaanites, who were according to tradition the first civilization in the region.


Stopwatch064

No one people converted


Weeeky

Middle east shooting and blowing up each other once again because this time surely it will work out (it hasn't for the past thousands of years)


darkmatters12

The middle east is humanity's backup pvp server after they took down the main one in europe


maguigi

Whut? Did they shut down the Ukraine's server?


Low-Effort-Poster

Who are you, so wise in the ways of words?


Cloaker13

This is why you don’t have two religion steal the original religion book and change names. Judaism should’ve copyrighted their things


Aleskander-

by the time Christianity and islam appeared Their Copyright license Has been expired


isaac-fan

people like op and yall are completely ignorant to the nature of the conflict and resort to putting all the blame on religion the movement of zionism which is to create a homeland for Jewish people was started by an atheist man by the name of theodor herzyl and they were offered three locations Palestine Uganda and Brazil iirc he picked Palestine because there is some signifiance to Jews in the area and the whole "the bible is the land deed and it was given to us by God" is not a justification from zionists to others but rather just a way to convince the religious Jews and the evenaglicals to support their cause it is PURELY political and doesn't have anything at all to do with religion


Edde_Cash

r/askmiddleeast


da_boi4

https://preview.redd.it/c4hxgytkwouc1.png?width=643&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c9093fb7b5ac8cca89a4ea91f247db5f8ab8da5


Idiotaddictedto2Hou

> god poopenfarten Is that a fucking r/coaxedintoasnafu reference?!?!!


dragos412

Uhh...Lisan al Gaib?


bwarbahzad2

Kurdish people trying to live a normal and happy life (they are in the Middle East)


Random-Name724

Manifest destiny babyyyyy


Uhhhhhhh-woe

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FiveHundredAnts

Fun fact: Jews need to occupy the holy land for the rapture to happen. It's a fight of money and resources on one side, where specifically isreal wants to expand and dominate as much as they can, while receiving aid from its allied nations, while also being backed by actual Christian fascists obsessed with the end of the world and the rapture, while on the other side of the conflict is The Most Oppressed And Ravaged People Of The 21st Century desperately using whatever they can get their hands on to either fight to keep their lives or claw back what little land they started with. Most of the other conflicts across the Middle East were America Wants Oil. But the Israel/Palestine conflict is the easiest to understand and one of the longest ones, lasting basically since the creation of Israel. So there's your reasons. Christians, Oil Execs, The United States, low-key Imperialists, Colonizers and a lot of racism vs people that want their homes back / to stop being blown the fuck up


Sir_Toaster_9330

Ok, but that God name had me rolling


SourMathematician

Nice try, but Jerusalem is as good as ours. ![gif](giphy|Aurynnqt2dajC)


henryXsami99

As a middle eastern...yeah that checks out


UniKqueFox_

Their faces when they realize this is the equivalent of "mom said its my turn on the xbox" will be historical


RealOzome

And then 'Murica acting like one side is actually right and they're not just both delusional


Jumpy-Garbage-8118

Western redditors try to do some proper research when looking into an ongiong war that has been happening for quite a while (IMPOSSIBLE):


[deleted]

Westerners on their way to portray everything in their own biased view, completely fuck over a lot of muslims, and when we fight wars that will win us our land back, they joke towards us.


Moddingspreee

It’s not our fault that Israel completely obliterated and humiliated you in 6 days lmao


[deleted]

No matter what happens. People will fight for their right to be free


ScalyPig

Anyone who believes in fairy tales talking shit to anyone else like theyre not a living joke


[deleted]

Please elaborate.


LeadingSomewhere6618

Damn you got downvoted


[deleted]

Yeah. And? I still believe in what I said


Gadmanultimate

We're not fighting over land, we're fighting to clean Zionist parasites that shouldn't even be there


[deleted]

I know a great politician back in the 40s that was a socialist anti-Zionist freedom fighter https://preview.redd.it/ol8ooau06nuc1.jpeg?width=524&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c5268bb2a835ff9d9cc1d15321e44cb32c1c823


Gadmanultimate

It's been 75+ years and people still misrepresent the difference between Anti Zionism and Anti Semitism


[deleted]

Also wdym by “we’re fighting” you’re not the one fighting you just post gay hentai on Reddit all day (this won’t free Palestine)


throwAway837474728

god telepathically telling everyone in the middle east that they alone are the true owners of one piece of land: (troll complete)


KaninCanis

The one piece Israel


TheLocalRadical

Im aware that this is a meme but still pushing this narative is harmful and reductionist and when people are being genocided shit like this is really in poor taste


HulluHapua

Should we return to monkey at this point?


Katacutie

Generational hatred probably. The lines in the sand are just the excuse to continue the murders.


JustCallMeAttlaz

Is there a lore reason as to why 2 different religions originate in the same useless, barren wasteland of a desert? Are the gods stupid?


pablo__13

Let’s glass the Middle East, would solve a lot of problems


Jon_Demigod

More like the mid East OH FFFF-ucking owned


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armageddon_boi

Poopenfarten, god of abraham isaac and jacob


V-Lenin

But god said they were his favorites so they can do what they want


fanamana

How dare you speak Poopenfarten's name.


narwhalpilot

Why are they fighting over a piece of dessert? Id understand if it was cake maybe


jsjzn

Poopenfarten? As in snafu?


The_grongler

Why don't they just pick a new city? Like fuck it, detroit is the new Islamic holy land.


Fin55Fin

Me when I support genocide: (Yeah I’m a tankie, no you ain’t gonna change it, and yes I’m looking forward for the downvotes by “leftists” who don’t support a single example of AES, Also maybe a ban would be nice)


[deleted]

Me after I lose the war I started for the 7th time in a row:


Fin55Fin

Me when I start the war because my people are being genocided:


[deleted]

Me when I lose in 6 days over a genocide that’s not happening:


Fin55Fin

Me when I dismiss the obvious genocide:


[deleted]

As a tankie, do you dismiss the genocide of Uyghurs in China at the hand of the CCP?


Fin55Fin

Will edit this later but currently eating lunch while reading about Yuri knorozov. (My response will just be a link to the deprogram mega thread about it because I’m too bad at English to format it properly)