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  • The Islamic Republic is under clandestine assault by the US and Israel with the help of heavily armed Kurdish infiltrators. I do not “denounce their massacre by Khamenei’s regime” because it’s unclear who is massacring and who is being massacred, and to what scale these massacres are occurring. If innocent civilians are dying it is accidental. And these accidents are occuring because the Islamic Republic is under extreme pressure from these armed infiltrators and not because of something systematically wrong with its system of government, which allows for democratic vote under clerical supervision. The United States has a similar system with democratic vote under the supervision of AIPAC.

    The Islamic Republic is not against protesting. The Ayatollah recognized the initial protests as legitimate—they were in response to real economic crisis caused by US sanctions. If the US cared about Iranians, it could ease the sanctions. The problem is when these protests are co-opted by infiltrating groups with weapons.

    The BBC article cites the HRANA, the NGO I mentioned in my article which is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy. Yes, they are manufacturing consent.










  • He is not anti-israel for any humanitarian reason, he only cynically uses anti-israel talking points to push antisemitic conspiracy theories.

    I disagree. I think he’s sincere when he calls killing children evil, and that’s good. And I thought his interview with Munther Isaac was very important for breaking conservatives out of the “all Arabs are crazy Muslim and want to kill me” false belief, even if it did focus on the sufferings of the small minority of Palestinian Christians.

    I don’t agree with everything he’s ever said or will say, he may say things I the future I have serious disagreements with. But I think the genocide in Gaza is the most pressing moral issue of our time, and am willing to build a big tent coalition to stop it and hold Israel responsible. I am also a big admirer of Hezbollah, who are very socially conservative, for what it’s worth.


  • Reposting removing explicit X hyperlinks:

    Tucker Carlson has called out Ben Shapiro for cheering on the killing of Palestinian civilians, calling it evil, while Piers Morgan defended it (X link: SuppressedNws/status/1885475171667972426)

    Tucker has gotten Matt Walsh to implicitly admit that Israel shouldn’t exist, because it depends on the US for its existence: (X link: abierkhatib/status/1917775533355720801)

    Tucker is a member of the isolationist wing of Republicans trying to prevent war with Iran, and has called out “Mossad agents and warmongers” for derailing the talks: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-allies-say-mossad-agents-and-warmongers-trying-derail-iran-talks

    Tucker hosted an interview with Thomas Massie where Massie revealed that every Republican Congressperson has an ‘AIPAC babysitter’ (X link: HotSpotHotSpot/status/1799169397510311993)

    AIPAC is bipartisan, so I can be bipartisan too. I try to seek out and include conservative voices that are critical of Israel, and amplify the isolationist wing of the Republican party that opposes wars in the Middle East. I especially appreciate Tucker calling the killing of Palestinian civilians “evil”.