Who does Blinken work for?
“If Blinken and the US administration would have liked this war to be over, this war would be over. Continuing to supply Israel with weapons and to beg Israel to stop the war is quite a farce. This is not international relations, this is a children’s game.” – Gideon Levy, Haaretz
Who does Blinken work for?
I thought his goal was peace in Palestine not apartheid, and definitely not genocide.
Ahlan wa Sahlan
I hope one day the rail network in Egypt is connected to Saudi Arabia. There has been talks about a bridge across the Gulf of Aqaba, but maybe that won’t be necessary.
English is confusing and before making this post I had to double check that I am using the correct word and not the other one that you mean here.
The map doesn’t include Iran or Turkiye.
Is bread a processed food? It doesn’t grow on trees. Bread can also be a staple food.
The loss of the Hejaz Railway is still a great tragedy. There are planned railroads that will connect to Iraq, and it is possible to go to Jordan from Saudi Arabia by train, but nothing like what has been lost so far.
The line is a bit more blurry on the East side than the West but this might just be my own bias coming from Lebanon.
I always thought Urban Hejaz and the Levant [and Egypt] share in a dialect continuum or at least a sprachbund, I don’t know a lot of dialects that say مرق to mean pass except those two. Urban Hejazi dialects also drop the use of interdentals like in Lebanese. In the same way Bahrani dialect Bahrain/Eastern Saudi Arabia shares with Mesopotamia in having Akkadian and Aramaic influences.
Here’s a fun comparison between Hejazi and Najdi dialects https://youtube.com/shorts/Fi9_bNiazOA
More aggressive in tone on average.
Only the Bedouin and Najdi dialects which happen to be over represented. Jeddawi in particular and other Urban Hejazi dialects are seen as effeminate https://youtu.be/AHWbA0b9bK4
Harris hasn’t come out in disagreement with Biden’s policy over the last year.