If you want to understand why Jordan looks the way it does today, you must understand one simple fact: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is not an ancient nation-state. It is a British-created monarchy ruled by a dynasty that isn’t from Jordan. The Hashemite family did not originate in Amman, or in Transjordan, or in…
Everyone talks about the Israeli–Arab conflict as if it started in 1948, appeared out of thin air, and happened for absolutely no reason except “colonialism.” That version of history is convenient, emotionally satisfying, and—of course—completely false. You cannot understand this conflict without understanding the Balfour Declaration. And that is exactly why anti-Israel propaganda tries very…
Some propaganda lines are ridiculous. Some are insulting. And then there’s this one — the mythical claim that Palestinian Arabs “took in Jewish Holocaust refugees,” only for Jews to “betray their hosts.” This lie is so grotesquely ahistorical that you have to wonder if the people repeating it have ever opened a history book, or…
Every time someone points out Islamic violence, the apologists crawl out like clockwork, armed with the same verse they believe ends all debate: > “Whoever kills one person, it is as if he killed all of mankind; whoever saves one person, it is as if he saved all of mankind.” Beautiful, right? Poetic. Almost Western.…
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