Yeah, sanctions are designed to target and put pressure on the regime, not the people, right? Wrong.

I thought conflating Jews with Israel is antisemitic?

Salivating.

This (the United States) is not your country. You are Canadian on a visa. Mandy Patinkin, however, IS an American, and his opinion actually matters. No one cares what you think or believe about our political system.

“Discrete.” Let’s announce it on Twitter

Yeah, and the ceasefire I arranged in Rye, NY between Russia and Ukraine is working great. No gunshots or drones so far.

What I think he probably means is that Jimmy Carter vacillated and didn't save the Shah when he could. Instead of sending General Huyser to advise the Iranian generals to not initiate a coup and instead support the weak PM Bakhtiar government, he should've, according to Shah supporters, told them to take over and shoot any protestors to stop the revolution. A common opinion among right wing Republicans at the time.

Yeah. And New York isn’t York, England. So?

Not to praise him for his illegal war and lies about the Strait, but give him credit that he's the only American so far who, at least in this case, pronounces "Hormuz" correctly as, "Hormowz". Maybe it's a one-off.

At the time of the Islamic Revolution, support for the Shah was in the single digits. Today, support for the Islamic system stands at anywhere between 10-20% of the population. Support for regime change may indeed be high, but that support is not universally in the former crown prince's favor. There are republicans, socialists, communists, MEK supporters (small in number), and separatist groups (as well as some reformists who would not necessarily wholesale change the system, but would institute major reforms that would effectively be a change in the regime). The former crown prince hasn't shown that he has the overwhelming support of the people (as Khomeini did by the time he was boarding a plane for Tehran), nor has he shown that he has a ground operation that can keep all the various groups that will vie for power or separate from the country together. (People chanting his name at the January demonstrations is not proof that the majority of the population would support his return to form a new regime and to run the country.) It is true that Iran is not Yugoslavia. And comparisons are not really apt here. But a collapse of the Islamic republic would also not be a smooth transition back to the monarchy or a secular, democratic republic that monarchists wish to portray. It is not fear-mongering to suggest that it won't be.

My kid emulates them.

Because according to most people, AIPAC represents the interests of a foreign country, despite not being registered under FARA. While it can claim that the US' interests align perfectly with Israel's, that claim doesn't really hold water. Americans, Jewish or otherwise, are of course free to fund whatever cause they want to. @SenSanders is not "condemning" the people funding AIPAC; he's condemning AIPAC itself. There is a difference. AIPAC is spending an enormous amount of money to try to prevent a person who doesn't support Israel unconditionally from becoming a US Senator. That is in Israel's interests, yes, but not necessarily in Michigan's or the US'.

A woman SG would be great and good progress. The UAE's role in the genocide in Sudan, however; hardly covered by the western media and never mentioned by western governments, should probably disqualify a high rankling and current member of its government, be it a man or a woman. If there is a good argument as to whether the UAE's role is significant, or if there even is a genocide, it hasn't been heard.

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Nothing to do with his being Jewish. If he was Christian or even Muslim, his racist and anti-Muslim, anti-Third World mocking would be called out, too. Punching down isn't cool, even if it's humor.