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1. UN can condemn things, it can't stop things. We're not living in a global governance, the only thing UN is capable of is giving countries' international pressure. UN is trying to be respectful bellow the authority that sovereignty has which makes the institution slow and ineffective.

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2. Even in UNSC everything against Israel had been vetoed by the US. You can check on it. Israel has strong diplomacy and lobbying power right inside of the US governmental system, regardless of what Barrack Obama had said "bla bla bla Israel you should stop." it goes as much as spoken words but not much changed within the system.

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3. Who sided with Palestine now? Well we sympathize and be all 'oh, it's sad' but the important thing is who fight for them now + who support their economy now? in the past under the leadership of Gamal Abdl Nasser Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan were the ones who oppose Israel at all causes. Now King Saud allowed Benjamin Netanyahu to enter his kingdom lol, Syria is fucked up, Lebanon hates the PLO (read: black September), the mighty Egypt is crippled and can't even have one decent leader, Israel is one of Turkey's main economic partner, etc etc. Only Iran who shows it's opposition towards Israel and the Arabs marginalized Iran due to various reasons.

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Gak mau jawab Iran-Iran lagi kemarin disuruh orang re-ask eh ga doi gubris, padahal udah ngejelasin dari jaman 1950 sebelum revolusi 1979 dan El Musa waterway, balance of power shifts dari Gamal Abdl Nasser to Saddam Hussein dan seterusnya-seterusnya. Eh aku minta orangnya re-ask ga di re-ask jadi penjelasannya gantung. Padahal kalau mau belajar timteng emang complex dan harus belajar sejarahnya dulu. Karena tension antaara Saudi Arabia dan Iran itu bukan kerjaan semalem, bahkan kalau ditelusuri bisa sampai pecahnya Dinasti Ummayah.

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But then again in ask.fm dan kerjaanku dibilang TL:DR padahal jawabinnya udah serius. Jadi aku males jawab kalau cuman di scroll-like doang. I spent weeks di Turki and 1 year disini studying about Middle East from their government, foreign policy, insurgency, etc, and I truly hate it when I am being serious and others arent.

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it's going to be hard if you just read the recent news, the question which will arise would be .. but why Arab league? why so harsh to Iran? Iran, why you act like that? but since I this region is my focus area and apparently it's the current de rigueur, yea I can tell a thing or two about how things work in Middle East. Funnily, it all started with my first paper on the first gulf war and still affecting my last paper on the houthi insurgency.

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what we needed to know about Iran is, Iran is different than the rest of Arab league countries.
1. they are Persian, not Arab (even though Arab breaks down into smaller clans, but still, the Arabs speak the Arabic language with different dialects while the Persian speaks Farsi)
2. their majority is shia, not sunni (okay UAE is like this but they are still Arab)
3. they are the only country in Arab with theocratic system of government

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so yeah, Iran is this little odd kid from the Middle East playground, not exactly fulfilling others' criteria, and what's best, this odd kid is super provocative. Long time ago Iran used to claim Bahrain as its territory, in 1965 Iran dropped its claim over Bahrain, but on 1971 again, Iranian forces occupy three islands, including the strategic island of Abu Musa at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, claimed by both Tehran and the United Arab Emirates. The UAE agrees to share control of Abu Musa but continues to call for the return of the other two islands. However, it was all good in 1975, when Iraq and Iran signed a deal in Alegria, ending all of the outstanding border disputes. Iraq makes territorial concessions, chiefly relinquishing demands for the Shatt-al-Arab waterway shared by both countries in the Gulf. In return, Iran stops supplying Kurdish separatists with arms and money for their war against Baghdad.

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1979 - Iranian Revolution, removal of Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran became the Islamic State of Iran, led by Grand Ayatollah Khomenei
1979 - Iran hostage crisis, Iranian students took hostage of United States students at the embassy around 400+ people were taken into hostage (this angered the United States and became the fundamental cause of distrust between the two countries)
1980 - Khomeini calls for Iraq's Shia to rise up against the Saddam Hussein government. Saddam responds by annulling the 1975 Algiers Agreement. Both countries shell each others' borders.

and Iraqi military forces invade on September 22.
who supported Iraq, really? all Arab states, except for Libya and Syria. Since Iran captured the Abu Musa waterway, they united, by then the UAE submits its claims on Abu Musa to the UN. In the same year, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain form the Gulf Co-operation Council in response to Iranian threats.

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so why? why Saddam Hussein took the lead in the Middle East region and altered the balance of power in the region? in 1950, the leader of all Arabs was Gamal Abdl Nasser, the father of Pan-arabism, (re-ask if u wanted me to explain)

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