Middle East

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The Opening of Trump’s Box​

Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.

by David DayenApril 2, 2026
https://prospect.org/2026/04/02/opening-of-trumps-box-iran-war-strait-hormuz/

 

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Joe Rogan: “I’m confused… we started bombing Iran supposedly to stop the terrorists” Theo Von: “That’s crazy though if you’re the fucking terrorists! If you wanna stop them stand in front of the...

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The Opening of Trump’s Box​

 

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That's, well I don't know what to say about that

 

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That's, well I don't know what to say about that

Ben Gvir, the guy whose video I posted has a golden noose lapel pin on his suit.

We know what this is. We have seen it before.

 

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Ben Gvir, the guy whose video I posted has a golden noose lapel pin on his suit.

We know what this is. We have seen it before.

He's looking for a final solution to the Palestinians and doesn't see any association with this versus how his great grandparents were treated 90 years ago.

Do we just have to be enough generations removed from that for us not to see it? Because Jewish history is littered with events where people attempted to exterminate them just because of who they are. You would hope kids would see what happened to their ancestors time and time again and not think when Im old enough Im going to be the one doing the ethnic cleansing.

 

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He's looking for a final solution to the Palestinians and doesn't see any association with this versus how his great grandparents were treated 90 years ago.

Do we just have to be enough generations removed from that for us not to see it? Because Jewish history is littered with events where people attempted to exterminate them just because of who they are. You would hope kids would see what happened to their ancestors time and time again and not think when Im old enough Im going to be the one doing the ethnic cleansing.

This is ethnonationalism and its inevitable conclusion. It doesn't matter the ethnicity involved or the country it is active in.

I think this is a prescient quote from a Ta-Nehisi Coates interview on NPR awhile back on this same topic:

I am part of a community that fought in the Civil War to free themselves as members of the Union Army, and we praise that effort, and we talk about that effort. And some of those soldiers went West and fought wars against the Indigenous people of this country. They became victimizers. I'm part of a community that, in an effort to free itself and liberate itself from white racism in this country, bought into the dream of Liberia, which meant going over to Africa and subjecting Africans to Western civilization ... and "Christianizing" them and "civilizing" them. That is victims becoming victimizers.

What is uncomfortable is for us to see that the victimization and oppression, even at its highest point, may not necessarily be ennobling. ... In the most cliché terms — I'm sorry to use this — but to be a hurt person who hurts people [is] certainly possible. And that's a dark thought ... because I think we want to believe that having that oppression is some sort of card, you know, a moral high ground that is automatically conferred. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes that's true. Sometimes it's not. And I think as much as I saw the connection between Black people and Palestinians when I was over there, it was not so hard for me to see myself in the Israelis.