Everything related to the Middle East has always been insanely confusing.
So many moving parts and alliances and history and so much disinfo hidden behind… they used to say “in America there’s a gun behind every blade of grass”, the Middle East equivalent would be something like “there’s 13 disinformation campaigns on every page of print” and it all gets rewritten as needed…
Makes it damn near impossible to have a firm opinion.
Everything related to the Middle East has always been insanely confusing.
So many moving parts and alliances and history and so much disinfo hidden behind… they used to say “in America there’s a gun behind every blade of grass”, the Middle East equivalent would be something like “there’s 13 disinformation campaigns on every page of print” and it all gets rewritten as needed…
Makes it damn near impossible to have a firm opinion.