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[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hamas is Sunni, Iran is Shiite. They’re aligned out of convenience more than religion. The Middle East isn’t actually that complicated, the idea that it is so complicated is peddled to scare people from actually understanding the region and forming their own conclusions, usually out of fear that the listener might not find a genocidal European colony to be “the good guys”.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, then it makes sense that Iran provides no real support to the Palestinians. They're a different religion, so the Iranian regime only has an interest in using them against Israel.

[-] Gigasser@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I mean there's probably other reasons Iran can't really help the Palestinians. More practical reasons having to do with logistics, economy, cost, geopolitics, potential consequences/sanctions, etc.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Okay tap the brakes. Let's not let that pendulum swing too far the other way here. Iran doesn't really help the Palestinians because they don't actually care about the Palestinians. That's very obvious to everyone I don't think we have to pretend otherwise.

[-] Gigasser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Ehh tru. I'm just saying, that even if they wanted to help, they'd have their hands tied in other ways too.

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