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Hamas has lobbyists and high ranking politicians spread throughout the world. There are right wing fanatical religious movements in different countries supporting Hamas. Hamas has broad support in the West and in Western media. Meanwhile, the Global South broadly condemns Hamas and supports…
wait sorry I got it flipped, that’s all Zionism
I mean on the other hand, I know plenty of people who are either Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Persian (everyone I know who is from Iran magically becomes "Persian" once they immigrate for some reason... probably all that "Death to the west" that I see on the news) and for some reason I never have to ask where they stand on the issue. Muslims scare white people more than Jews, brown Muslims even more. Give them a beard and a kaftan and you watch Karen clutch her pearls. At least the Jewish people get Jon Stewart and Mel Brooks.
The vast majority of people dont see this as a vast complicated 70 year ongoing geopolitical hot potato, they just pick their side and defend it.
Your first part of the comment reminded me of my coworker. She is proudly iranian (though i think that is more because she is from the Azeri part and is therefore not really persian) while also being a monarchist who want the Shah to come back and constantly defends the Shah as somehow more civilized than the current Islamic Republic.