The Washington Post should familiarize itself with an obscure Western country called the United States, whose intelligence apparatus has repeatedly assessed that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too.... Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area."

The people of the area... not the Palestinians.

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Bless Nisreen for writing this. Anyone who doesn’t feel the sheer cruelty of what’s been done is contemptible.

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Gosh, sounds like fair use to me. It's not like OpenAI / Microsoft cared one bit about licenses or copyright when they absorbed my entire legal blog into their LLMs via Common Crawl. Why should their probabilistic LLM outputs get better copyright protection than my original human work?

Boy, it only took Israel some 45 days to change the status of their Mount Hermon occupation from "temporary" to "indefinitely" 🤦🏻‍♀️

I will. Thanks a lot!

Sure looks like it'll be one hell of an arrangement, if it works at all. Sinwar was released in a prisoner exchange deal.

I hope they release him.

Interesting! I'm Egyptian, and I have never heard of it. I had to google it.

He already started a new war in the West Bank. He just couldn't wait.

This is what makes Egypt what it is today. Certainly, we are not without fault, but this long history of struggle has not only molded our identity but also taught us resilience, tolerance, and compassion.

like how the Hellenistic period (332–30 BC) is "defined by the interaction of the Greek with the Egyptian culture and the emergence of a mixed style."

The way I see Egypt is as a melting pot of all the civilizations that settled here during our very long course of history. They came as invaders, yes, but over generations, many of them fused with Egyptian culture in a way that gradually distanced them from where they came from—

It's neither. Egyptian identity is far too complex to fit into such narrow definitions.

I see endless debates arising every so often about the "Egyptian Identity." Some say it's purely Islamic - dismissing over 3,700 years of Egypt's history - while others would like to think it's everything that predates all invasions - dismissing over 2,500 years of our history.

Perhaps it's time to talk about what it means to be Egyptian.

I never endorsed the notion that the Mohamed Ali dynasty was a foreign rule. Corrupt? Yes, but Egyptian.