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IDF is an institute, you can wish its demise without it being understood as death to all conscripted Israelis. Putting aside that as a settler-colonial project founded on ethnic cleansing, no one in Israel is innocent, only varying degrees of culpability. Even more so when they have been constantly voting for extremist and genocidal politicians, and the one prime minister that was willing to make peace with the Palestinians got assassinated.

Would you morally object to "Death to the Hitler Youth"? how about "Death to Nazis"?

allahu akbar

How do you feel about churches being bombed and Christians being killed by the IDF?

death to America

Similarly, this doesn't imply death to all residents of the USA some of which are Muslims.

The ADL has been an anti-Palestinian hate group for years.

I hope a third player balances things out. I don't care if it is Bombardier, Embraer, Comac or some other company. Just need the Airbus-Boeing duopoly broken.

Climate change is changing the migration patterns of wildlife

Ahlan wa Sahlan

I hope one day the rail network in Egypt is connected to Saudi Arabia. There has been talks about a bridge across the Gulf of Aqaba, but maybe that won't be necessary.

This is a map for whales

Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.

English is confusing and before making this post I had to double check that I am using the correct word and not the other one that you mean here.

The dishes made with them are prepared in a similar manner. Rice in Mashreq replaced bulgur sometime over the past century or so.

The map doesn't include Iran or Turkiye.

Is bread a processed food? It doesn't grow on trees. Bread can also be a staple food.

The loss of the Hejaz Railway is still a great tragedy. There are planned railroads that will connect to Iraq, and it is possible to go to Jordan from Saudi Arabia by train, but nothing like what has been lost so far.

The line is a bit more blurry on the East side than the West but this might just be my own bias coming from Lebanon.

I always thought Urban Hejaz and the Levant [and Egypt] share in a dialect continuum or at least a sprachbund, I don't know a lot of dialects that say مرق to mean pass except those two. Urban Hejazi dialects also drop the use of interdentals like in Lebanese. In the same way Bahrani dialect Bahrain/Eastern Saudi Arabia shares with Mesopotamia in having Akkadian and Aramaic influences.

Here's a fun comparison between Hejazi and Najdi dialects

https://youtube.com/shorts/Fi9_bNiazOA

More aggressive in tone on average.

Only the Bedouin and Najdi dialects which happen to be over represented. Jeddawi in particular and other Urban Hejazi dialects are seen as effeminate https://youtu.be/AHWbA0b9bK4

1. Arabs at the rise of Islam already were speaking different dialects and so they took those differences with them.

2. Different regions have had different influences, e.g. Coptic and Greek in Egypt, Punic, Latin and Amazigh in North Africa, Nubian in Sudan, and so on.

3. 1400 years of divergent history, including different foreign rule in different regions.