Starting the count in 1948, out of all years, is the opposite of successfully burying the lede. They’re trying to say “Islamists” (nebulous category, I’m just gonna assume it means Arabs that aren’t compradors) colonized WANA. But this process took place starting 1948? The revisionist mythology of Zionism usually requires that you go back to the Arab Conquest, and asserts that Arabs were always kicking Jews around; if this phenomenon started in 1948 then something is just not adding up.
Starting the count in 1948, out of all years, is the opposite of successfully burying the lede. They’re trying to say “Islamists” (nebulous category, I’m just gonna assume it means Arabs that aren’t compradors) colonized WANA. But this process took place starting 1948? The revisionist mythology of Zionism usually requires that you go back to the Arab Conquest, and asserts that Arabs were always kicking Jews around; if this phenomenon started in 1948 then something is just not adding up.