and conflation is obscene.

and I am untanned and quite pale for sure. Having worked in the ME, I was amazed.

Have blue or green eyes. Quite a beautiful mix of colors and features.

or Greek Orthodox...
And to add to the confusion there are plenty of Armenians in Lebanon. They are also Christian.

I'm Armenian and I know there is sitll a large community in Lebanon.

I don't think many are Coptic

12 officially recognized groups, dominated by Maronite Catholics (approx. 52.5% of Christians), followed by Greek Orthodox (25%), and smaller groups including Greek Catholics (Melkites), Armenian Orthodox, Armenians Catholics, and Protestants.

throughout the Middle East but include:
followers of the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Alexandrian Greek Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church. They are the largest Christian population in Egypt and the Middle East,[36] as well as in Sudan[9] and Libya.[37] Copts account for roughly 5 to 15 percent of the population of Egypt.[33][38][39]

He’s not going to be learning new things now, and wouldn’t care either way even if he could integrate the information. They’re ALL brown to him.

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I’m guessing he just sees Asian, African, Mexican, Arab, and Indian (American and East). You know people from the shithole places we shouldn’t care about. If any further taxonomy is needed, skin tone is definitive. This was made only slightly made in jest.
The conflation only helps in dehumanizing ethnicities. Grouping countries or ethnicities together like this makes it easier to export preestablished hate to a new group or country. It’s why fighting right wing propaganda is so difficult. Misdirect and make it simplistic and emotional. By the time one responds by explaining the cultural, religious, and ethnic differences between Palestinians and Iranians, you’ve lost part of the audience. Also, it has the added benefit of putting the explainer on the defense as a supporter of the actions being criticized. It’s even more effective when those actions are atrocious This tactic is used rather clumsily by Trump, but it doesn’t seem to be so clumsy that he loses more support than he gains. I know he had me thinking about the horrors of the October 7 attacks while writing this response that started with mere snark.
Just adding in response to several posters’ correct statements about the “whiteness” of some people from the region. When I say “non-white” I’m gesturing at what many Americans consider non-white at this time, regardless of skin tone and eye color. My statements here are a generalization and there are sure to be cases that fall through the cracks in both its facts and logic. It seems race might start at skin color, but certainly doesn’t end there.

in Kuwait and grinding machines.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T15:31:22.183Z

The IDF is accepting the Gaza Health Ministry’s figure because it knows it is an undercount.

The number includes only identified dead, and bodies that have not yet been identified remain beneath the rubble. There have also been additional deaths due to disease, exposure, and malnutrition.

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2026-01-29T17:06:11.235Z

I guess we should stop using good grammar as well?

yes INDEED

Now they are lunch...

The poster asked whether they bombed schoolgirls. Implies to me that the poster thinks what we do is worse. It's all horrendous.

RAPE LITTLE GIRLS! You sell them, beat them and some of your buddies have actually killed them!

Your, look over there is not working. How many are going to die to cover your sins?

Go F*** Yourself.

But whatever mango mussolini- and you think you're above this ? wouldn't put it passed ya.

Bullshit.
Trump is getting desperate.

...that I've heard nobody saying the regime in Iran isn't horrible.
So, this demonizing is pointless because it's arguing against a case not being made.
It's just useless rationalization for a dumb decision.

WTF is he talking about?

Using the proven lie/propaganda of 40 decapitated babies to foment hatred of both Palestinians and Iranians so people won't mind so much when they are being slaughtered or ethnically cleansed.

He's the worst of humanity for sure.

is he talking about his Epstein buddies? Sure sounds like it.

Sure, he was told to use such depravity to justify what Israel and US are doing but on a personal level I truly believe he's fantasizing about being able to do some incredibly depraved things himself. I think someday we'll find he's already done much worse but his buddy Epstein isn't buying victims for him any more. Now he has to get his jollies by proxy.

Piss himself again?

Cutting babies and halving women. DJT
Weapons of mass destruction. GWB
Babies thrown out of incubators. GHWB
Gulf of Tonkin. LBJ

We love to go to war over a good story.

But it's a habit of all Republican presidents to lie like a mother fucker to us. They consider it a skill.

I think that's what's known as a "senior moment." In Trump's case, that moment has lasted a lifetime.