CleverOleg [he/him]

Ilan Pappe stated that before Al-Aqsa flood, he felt the cause of Palestinian liberation was really on the ropes and possibly done for. Saudi legitimization of the entity would have been disastrous, and the Resistance themselves cited this as a reason for launching Al-Aqsa Flood; now that’s not happening anytime soon. Now Pappe says he think the entity is living on borrowed time.

Not to downplay the unimaginable price paid by the Palestinian people over the last 15 months, but the story isn’t over yet. It is certainly possible that down the line, schoolchildren will learn that it was Al-Aqsa Flood that was the beginning of the successful liberation of the Palestinian people and maybe even the end of the Zionist entity (inshallah).

I have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL:

Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare.

Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie.

Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say.

But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.

Just to add, the idea that western countries do not subsidize their exports is laughable. I don’t doubt that in many sectors, western governments - both now and in the past - have subsidized their industries to far greater degree than China ever has with theirs.