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“Do not dare challenge Israel’s bid for regional hegemony or ethnic cleansing of Palestine . Achieving the first would give Israel the immunity it needs for the second: rectifying the mistake the historian Benny Morris lamented when he criticized Ben Gurion for not expelling all the Palestinians in 1948.”

Challenges of overcoming both Arab chauvinism and Kurdish nationalism in building a political movement capable of winning self-determination for the Kurds and challenging the hold of both the imperialist powers and the local predatory and reactionary capitalists who rule in Syria. A long analysis with a historical background The disastrous Arab nationalism carries on

“Iran’s current economic and political crisis is often narrated as the cumulative outcome of international sanctions or authoritarian governance alone.  Such accounts, however, obscure the deeper political-economic transformations that have unfolded since the early 1990s.”

Renowned Palestinian historian and co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies

No collapse of the Soviet union, no China, no capitalism and American nationalism. All what has happened since 1991 happened without a global context and international and regional power relations, or class realignment.  A liberal analysis by Patrick Wintour Related America's long war in the Middle East

With the support of leftists. “The involvement of female fighter pilots in the ongoing operation has been a cause for self-congratulation for Israel’s military, and a point of pride and vindication for many Israelis. “In street interviews, social media posts and television debates, Israeli women reiterate the same point: they are willing to live under bombardment if it means helping Iranians - and particularly Iranian women - achieve freedom .”

Knowledge, in the sense of theoretical knowledge, refers to ideas that reveal mechanisms underlying empirical/observable events/processes. Theory tells us how to connect the different bits of information to produce the bigger picture about reality. It tells us how an apparently isolated thing or process represents wider processes. It provides knowledge that is explanatory (as well as critical).  —Raju Das, The Age of Unreason , 2018