NoneOfUrBusiness

I seriously have no idea.

It’s not even extreme; that applies to most of their decisions, but not this one, which literally makes no sense. The 100% Islamic thing to do even if you don’t care about women’s lives or autonomy or any of that would be to encourage women to become doctors so they can treat other women and minimize haram mixing between genders. I mean they haven’t exactly been following Islam up to this point but this time it’s particularly egregious because it crosses from “Islam doesn’t tell you/allow you to do that what the fuck are you doing” to “Islam explicitly tells you not to do this what the fuck are you doing”.

Source: Am Muslim, up until now I could at least comprehend most of their decisions (in the sense that I was familiar with the thought process that lead to them because misogyny is everywhere around here; I obviously don’t condone any of it), but now I’m as flabbergasted as everyone else.

What, pray tell, happened to Jews in 1948?

Israel will never allow this to happen (source: The last two times this was tried, they did not allow it to happen) so… Uh… Good luck.

Uou would’ve had more of a point if this was establishment media (I’ve never seen them use the word massacre to describe anything happening in Palestine) but the article in the OP isn’t by establishment media.

Okay up until now you could kinda sorta see what they’re trying to do if you try to think as an old Middle Eastern guy who thinks Islam allows him to be a bigot, but this is just weird as fuck. Preventing women from becoming midwives means that only men will be able to help women give birth, which Islamically MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE. I thought I knew what these guys are doing, but now I have no idea.

By ignoring Israel these rebels are failing to assert the real problem in the region.

And how are they supposed to do anything about Israel while being nerve gassed by Assad at home?

I see your point but honestly in their place being concerned with yourself first and foremost with yourself is perfectly acceptable. If Syria is the hill Iran and Russia want to die on then that’s frankly not Syrian rebels’ business. Put another way, imagine if someone said Hamas should stop operations because they’re indirectly helping Iran who supports Assad. Ignore for this hypothetical that Israel supports ISIS out of all groups.

If you’re reducing Syrian resistance activities to “because Israel” then you should learn… well, anything about the Syrian civil war.

I mean I have to object to your use of the term “defenders” to describe Israel but yeah that’s about it.

I guess France has slightly more spine than the US. Let’s see how far it will go.

Is it me or has Haaretz been going hard lately?

I mean not another; it’s the proxy war in the region.

This is outdated. The US (represented by Israel) supports ISIS now.

Setting aside the merits of an AI-generated world, that shit is computationally expensive and already causing environmental issues.

This is likely a projection that doesn’t take into account the past year.

This attitude doesn’t help anyone. Source: Am Middle Eastern, everyone around here thinks like this and it only led to disaster.

That’s how EU investigators are thinking too IIRC.

I mean not denying their (our) responsibility, but that’s mostly because they’re bought and paid for by the US.

To be… Fair??? Technically according to the ceasefire they get to do that for the time being. Still an asshole move to put it lightly but technically that part isn’t violating the ceasefire.