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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's also a good possibility that one of the high ranking military officers will use the opportunity that will arise from the chaos to orchestrate a coup and put themselves in power.

  That is, admittedly, a possibility I hadn't considered.

  This treaty has been active for 50 years, what would Israel gain from destroying it?

  If the treaty remains active then makes sense, but I doubt anyone will care about a peace treaty with a failed state. You know how when a country just falls apart its neighbors go after the pieces? That's the sort of scenario I'm envisioning here. Admittedly my thinking might be overly simplistic, and I should've considered more orderly possibilities, but at least in the Syria-style absolute chaos situation I'm imagining (which after thinking about it isn't as likely as I thought) of I don't see why they'd honor the sovereignty of a state that ceased to exist, in the same way nobody really cares about Syria as a sovereign state anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something on the ground that is not apparent in the media our Egyptian diaspora?

  Not really; it's just that I doubt the army will give up power peacefully. Hence civil war or violent revolution. And in both cases it wouldn't be strange if Israel decided to expand into Sinai during the chaos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You only say that because you don't know how Egypt is looking like right now. Egypt's economy is the worst it's ever been in decades because of mismanagement, and it's not getting better. We're seeing the government build new bridges and cities using our tax pounds while people can't buy food. They're borrowing money at absurd rates to try to keep the whole thing from collapsing and paying back by selling the counter piecemeal to gulf states while refusing to actually fix anything. People keep having to find places to cut back on food and other essentials just so they don't starve. We can't get enough fuel for the country so blackouts have been going on for a while and it's killing newborns in hospitals. Hell, a guy I know had a 9-hour long blackout recently.

  Egypt's economy is in free fall right now and there's not much more room for falling before people starve. Some kind of revolution is going to happen within the next few decades and you know what happens when the people try taking back control from a military dictatorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh... Egypt did not collapse in 2011. That was a regime change. I'm talking about a Libya or Syria-style failure to keep existing as a sovereign state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? Are we having the same conversation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh... I think you missed the part that said "when Egypt inevitably collapses".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh... Have you heard of the word "settlement"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm... For a more realistic answer not necessarily. This isn't the first time they invaded Lebanon. I'm admittedly not aware of why they left the first time, but from what I know at least in the short term they're mostly content with the territory they currently control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people speak English but with German grammar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we just appreciate "breakfasted"? Why doesn't English have that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh... Like the other guy said FGM is an African practice with no origin in Islam. Like go get me a hadith where any early Muslim of note does it.

  Furthermore any religion that prohibits women from getting an education above grade-school level, and prohibits them from having their own money, having a career,

  Well good thing Islam doesn't forbid any of that then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes more sense yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The stats they're using refer to the increase in women identifying as "unaffiliated" regardless of starting religion.

  True enough, but that's almost completely because they've leaving Christianity. Upon reading the title I thought religion as a whole was in decline in the US, which isn't very inaccurate but Christianity is clearly an outlier here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we stop using "religion" to refer to only Christianity? Please?