Oddbean new post about login | logout Westerners don't understand the Islamic world very well. Islam is divided into two main groups: Sunni and Shia. Iran is Shia. Hezbollah is Shia. The Houthis are Shia. Hamas is Sunni. Why does this article lump them in as an Iranian proxy? I have a guess as to who made up this bullshit. nostr:nevent1qqswedm5xjynj69j20z8s689xpluhutvw76hj0r92q0tdlrxrf3nddgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7u6y4s2
Common enemy. Someone is supplying the weapons and rockets.
Grads, Katushas, Kalashnikovs, rpg-7s, IEDs. None of their popular weapons are hard to DIY. Some of their limited stock of anti-tank missiles may be factory built (Kornets), but those are widely proliferated and made in Russia.
Hamas builds their own rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles, and morter launchers out of plumbing pipes. They have some US made weapons from Afghanistan and Ukraine. But mostly the imported weapons are of Soviet manufacture that are claimed to have been modified by Iran. They also copy weapons: Their Shabab drone is a copy of the Iranian Ababil-2. I think they take any weapons they can get, and most of the world is behind them so they get weapons from all sorts of places, including Russia and Iran. I"ve heard they have some from North Korea and China too.
^ This
Yes they have a common enemy and put aside their ideological differences. I guess I was wrong.
I didn't even read the article or care for either side. I'm just commenting on your initial post about westerners not understanding Islam. Sometimes ideologies are irrelevant when you have a common enemy. Apparently it's seems less plausible to you guys that Iran and other Islamic adversaries would be supplying the insurgency rather than Russia and North Korea. Hell even China. In the same argument why are the Shias attacking Israel at all if they don't care about the Sunnis?
You don't need to guess. The author is Nafthali Bennet. No way would that gaslighting warmonger blatantly lie to Westerners to deflect attention from a genocide :-p
I know a Palestinian guy and he is shia. I think it's better to ask a Palestinian person. #palestine
85% are Sunni. There have been people converting to Shia.
Amethyst flags oldfart's post as offensive. I think/hope? its getting upset by "Shi'a" without the "'". This post is testing that theory Adding Palestine #palestine for consistency
shi'a is the lesser common variant of islam, it's more authoritarian
Shi'a / Sunni split in Islam parallels the Latin Rite / Eastern Orthodox split in Christianity pretty well. Each is internally fractured as well, so its hard to make any generalisations outside the actual theology.
For what i know shia is people who think the sucessor of Mohammed should be someone from his blood. Sunna is who says the sucessor should come from community trust. It is not, per Definition, authoriatarian, but might be or not a characteristic of it's currently followers. I'd say that electing someone by blood sounds less democratic then by Trust, so you might be right
A lot of Christian Palestinians even some Jews who were there before Isreal.
From further reading, it appears the relationship between Hamas and Iran is complicated and on-again off-again. In 2012 Hamas was cracking down on Sunnis that converted to Shia. Later Hamas was receiving funding from Iran.
Hamas main benefactor has always been the Isreali political executive branch. Harder to persue a strategy of tensions with a smart moderate opponent.
How would Isreali politics work if every 6 months a settler maimed a young Haarzt reader who'd moved to Ramallah for tax breaks and just happened to be chatting to a neighbour in Arabic the wrong time?