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(ahhh jeez - they got used!
Gazza is in ruins.
Think Iran will help pay for repairs??)
from
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/iran-propaganda-palestine/683322/
Pro-Palestine Activists Fell for Iran’s Propaganda
Western supporters would do well to note how Tehran’s policy has left
the Palestinian cause in ruins.
By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
A photo of an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.
Probal Rashid / LightRocket / Getty
June 26, 2025, 8 AM ET
Israel’s attack on Iran has elicited a predictable response from groups
that identify as “pro-Palestine.” At protests in several Western cities—some merely anti-war or anti-interventionist, others explicitly anti-Zionist or pro-Iranian—people rushed to criticize the Israeli
military action to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. In so
doing, they offer succor to a ruthless theocratic regime that has ground
its heel upon its own people and brought misery to the entire region for
nearly half a century.
By backing various regimes and militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen,
and Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death of hundreds of thousands of Arab and Muslim
people in the conflicts it has fomented. Iranian meddling in the region
has provided Arab dictators such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with both
the moral and material means to suppress dissent, crush reform, and
extend their autocratic rule. The pro-Palestine messaging ignores the
fact that a nuclear-armed Iran would be far more belligerent and
dangerous than the regime already has been for the past three decades.
For the pro-Palestine lobby to take at face value Tehran’s claim to lead
an “Axis of Resistance” against Israel is at best naive, and at worst malignant in a way that can only be described as anti-Semitic. It means accepting that the Islamic Republic’s eliminationist rhetoric about
Israel has made it a legitimate advocate for the Palestinian cause.
These pro-Palestine voices seem oblivious of the fact that the
Palestinian national project for independence and statehood is in ruins,
thanks in large part to Iranian influence.
Keep reading The Atlantic.
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