NoneOfUrBusiness

Imperialism does tend to boil down to just murdering people.

Keyword here is “accused.” Neoliberal media likes to accuse leftists of Bad Things™.

From what I’ve heard Canada doesn’t even have an EV industry to protect.

Tourism is a cancer and generates nothing but misery for the people living in beautiful places.

It also generates money (through tourism-related jobs) for people living in those places. I get your frustration, and governments should absolutely be doing a lot more about overtourism, but plenty of ordinary people benefit from tourism.

China is worse at home (for now, give it a year and it’ll flip), but abroad the US no-diffs.

I mean that makes sense; realistically a weaker yen will lead to more tourists going to Japan. What I’m saying is that Japan’s problem is more tourists, not worse tourists, which is what the parent comment implies.

Tourists not knowing courtesy or basic human decency isn’t restricted to any economic class. Japanese tourist hotspots have suffered from this since forever.

They are open to maybe discussing potentially reaching a consensus about the 1967 borders.

You’re exaggerating, but also sure, why do they need to go any further? Compromising beforehand is never a good idea, see: PA. Speaking of which, PA isn’t a tragic victim; they’re an active collaborator. The only thing they do is keep Palestinians under an oppressive dictatorship and fight what little Palestinian resistance exists in the West Bank. That’s why they have no legitimacy; their current program is one of submission, not “peace.”

Hamas is batshit crazy, they’re just far less militarily powerful.

What? Hamas’s position of “give us a Palestinian state and we’ll give them our weapons” is very reasonable. Their lack of respect for civilian lives is one thing, but “batshit crazy” ain’t it. Why do you think they’re batshit crazy?

That is fucking insane.

My pet theory is that they want to make Europeans feel unsafe so they flock to the far right.

Just had to put a bothsides in there didn’t you? With no real facts to back it up, mind you.

I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.

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Yes, true, but the main driver of this round of infighting is ISIS-linked drug-trafficking Israeli collaborators. Holy evil bingo lmao.

Apart from some episodes of violence, it was stable. But when imperialism ended, it was basically a mess.

Not directly relevant to your question, but for starters you should read about Sykes-Picot. The destabilizing impact of imperialism simply comes after the imperialist force and its vastly superior military leaves. Also you’re thinking of colonialism; imperialism never ended.

Now to directly answer your question, I’m a politics and history guy and the Ottoman Empire doesn’t get nearly enough hate for its role in shaping the modern Middle East. The stagnation they caused that allowed the region to be so easily swallowed by Western imperial interests is a direct result of centuries of Ottoman stagnation and authoritarian incompetence. The janissaries in particular deserve a special place in hell for their role in obstructing any and all progress in the Empire until it was too late. Those fucks are the reason there’s no Ottoman Catherine the Great or Frederick the Great.

The fact that they do have business accords and treaties with the Israeli has more to do with the fact that they are neighbors and Israel can basically land lock them, if they want.

They were doing fine until 1994, and less strictly until the early 2010s, so whatever problems they’re solving by trading with Israel are clearly not existential threats. Jordan is too valuable to Western interests for Israel to “landlock them” as you put it. You’d expect an Arab Muslim country to at least boycott Israel, not actively pursue trade relations with them. Given their actions, their rhetoric is meaningless. Now the Jordanian government isn’t run by Zionists obviously, but they clearly give much less of a shit than they want you to think.

I’m curious how you’d say they are more supportive to Israel than say the UK or other European countries, who have -with exemptions- more actively supported the Israeli.

That’s why I said “in the region.”

“But the anti-Hamas figures aren’t people like the Palestinian Authority; the anti-Hamas figures are collaborationist forces with the Israelis."

Implying the PA isn’t a collaborationist force, but also fucking ew.

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Surprisingly he’s probably the most tolerable autocrat in that part of the world, but to answer your question: As with half the problems in the Middle East, the Brits did it.