TIL the Middle East was in a vacuum.

Like what you might find in a hot, dry region?

Interesting question. I wonder how common dryers are in the Middle East? It’s famously hot and dry there so a dryer seems a bit redundant.

That’s an expensive ring.

Hmm, not sure USA should be classed as a liberal democracy. I mean, they have a significant number of non-liberal states, an electoral college that doesn’t represent the democratic vote… What puts them in the dark blue and Brazil and S.A. in the light blue?

So one doesn’t justify another, but then you try and justify it by saying it’s quantifiably fewer wrongs… What on earth are you quantifying? Lives lost. Freedoms lost. Land lost. Quality of life lost?

You are deluded if you honestly believe the current Israeli leadership and that of the IDF has no ill will towards Palestinians or Muslims.

I’m more than confident the world knows what Hamas is. But Bibi’s government has innocent blood on its hands and they aren’t being held to the same derision. There are Israelis murdering Palestinians for land and they aren’t being brought to any justice.

I don’t believe that you don’t hate Muslims or Palestinians. You sound like a white American saying “I’m not racist but…”

“pretty reckless” is something you might say about driving while intoxicated, not sure how it applies to a large scale, protracted military operations.

What “settlers” thing are you referring to?

Hamas was formed in 1987, are you suggesting Israel has done nothing improper since then?

So to be clear, you are saying Israel has done nothing improper over the last 2 years in its actions towards Palestinians?

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No shit. The world’s fascism problem never ended. Do you have any articles discussing fascism in Russia? Or America? Or the EU?

How do you feel about Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Is he an anti-Semite fascist too?

I’d love to hear your opinion on Putin.

Again, most of the people using this statement are using it in solidarity with Ukranian independence and are unaware of its origins.

Your comic is too simple to explain the complexity of this issue.

This was a strawman argument anyway.

Interesting history lesson.

Is the implication that Spitzspot is a fascist / communist and anti-Semite because they said Slava Ukrani?

They well may be, but that’s a big call based on the use of a phrase which has seen a rapid evolution in it’s usage in the last few years.

Are all Hindi and buddists and Jainists who continue to use the swastika as a part of their religious symbolism anti-Semite fascists as well?

Is Kim Jong Un a proponent of individual rights and liberties because he leads the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?

I’m guessing there’s a few Americanism’s that’d have the same complex history.

Slava Ukrani may have it’s origins in fascism, but right now across the english speaking world it is seen as a Clarion call championing the freedom of a democratic Ukraine against the current fascist Russian regime.

Words have more than one meaning, and those meanings evolve.