Years ago when some more Arab countries bend the knee to the US and Israel and signed submission... ohh sorry "normalization" treaties with them someone told me "Arabs are the modern day slaves" and even though I still don't agree with the statement itself, I do agree with the sentiment and understand what he was trying to say. I thought about it so long that I rephrased and amended it to the headline you just read but still think the philosophical conclusion lies somewhere in the middle of these 2 statements.

I mean, slavery was something entirely different and we have since then not seen anything quite as horrendous on such a large scale. I still think people don't really understand how massive and inhumane it was. There are somewhere between 1 and 20 million corpses still on the ocean bottoms from Africans who either died by the horrendous conditions on the slave ships or because they killed themselves, which was quite common and one of the saddest things I've ever heard. In many African tribes they believed that after death, they would return home and when they were captured and forced to go on these month long journeys in horrifying conditions, many ended their own lives. Some because of the unbearable condition, others because they wanted to go back to their families and believed that by ending their own lives they would return home to Africa.

Nothing like that is happening today and I think it would be an injustice to their memories if we'd just callously compared everything to slavery. But the point he was trying to make isn't far off regarding how many Arab nations/kingdoms behave towards the US and Israel and how African nations/kingdoms behaved towards Europeans back then. Just a glace at the headlines should already make you understand why. Isn't it btw funny how the Africans who sold their own people back then were "kingdoms" and many of the Arabs who today facilitate and ignore genocide are also "kingdoms"?

But going back OT, today it's the European nations that are standing up to Israel for the sake of Arabs in Palestine and Lebanon while most Arab nations are bowing their heads and on their knees before that same Israel. Weak gutless dictators who in no way represent their people and yes, they are the majority of Arab nations: Morocco, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Sudan, and even that same Lebanon that's being attacked right now but pretends it isn't happening while numerous Indonesian and French peacekeepers have been killed. The whole thing is just one major ***show.

Now before you'll say some of those do not belong on the list like e.g. Qatar who was just last year attacked by Israel, you forgot that they are quite literally occupied by a certain nation who facilitated the normalization of Israel and the Arab world despite a literal fookin genocide on their fellow Arab brethren. Not only have there been numerous signs of their not so covert ties, but it's only a matter of time before they are kneeling as well. I guess the only real question here is who will kneel down first, Qatar, Saudi Asskisser Arabia, or all of them together in some other weird cringe humiliation ritual.

As for Lebanon, is there even anything left to say which the Lebanese haven't said themselves?

Lebanon puppets when some random French peacekeeper is killed:

Lebanon puppets when a prominent Lebanese journalist is killed:

I guess the moral of the story can be summarized in one sentence: These Arab dictators have no morals, the end.