Comment by master_crab
2 years ago
They aren’t a monolith. Levant Arabs have a hard time understanding people from the Maghreb (North Africans). North Africans think differently than Iraqis, and everyone despises Gulf Arabs and their easy oil money and the Wahhabist tendencies of the Saudis.
The one thing they have in common is they don’t like the way Palestinians have been treated but have ceased viewing it as “their” fight long ago.
Yes, I agree with your first paragraph. The second paragraph I agree with less, as the Iraqis that I've talked to do in fact seem to see the Palestinian struggle as their own struggle as well. But I don't claim to really know Iraqi culture.
That’s because both Iraqis and Palestinians were occupied and brutalized by America and Israel respectively. so there is much to share. Just like South Africans commiserate with Palestinians or African-Americans about their experiences.
But that doesn’t mean Iraqis are going to fight a war for the Palestinians. They have their own problems to deal with.
Thank you.
Do you mean that the Levant Arabs do not understand the Maghrebi language or the Maghrebi culture?