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Are you opposed to the ICC taking on cases from the Levant because you sympathize with the folks there?

The Levant would be sheltered primarily due to their lack of reliance on petrochemical dollars though Syria would degenerate.

So your contention is that all these people's families are perfectly fine with them going to the Levant for a little sun and frolic?

The Israeli-Arab conflict also affects a lot of people and politics outside the Levant - both sides have a lot of prominent political and financial agitators.

Look at Pakistan, and the levant in general.

Sure you can find Ottoman era signs in Egypt and the Levant that display Arabic in nastasliq (my readers sent me plenty such pictures), but by and large Arabic today is written in naskh and almost never in nastaliq.

Almost all of the borders in the North of the Middle East are the same as they were 1000 years ago, barring the size and influence of Turkey and the break up of the Levant (which was largely a good move).

The levant accents are extremely similar that the gulf cannot really differentiate between Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Palestinian (although we see them as distinct and can pick up which accent is spoken from just a word or two).

Also, their charter does not state their goal to be the destruction of the State of Israel, but instead the extermination of all Jews and the establishment of a holy dictatorship, first in the Levant and then across the rest of the world.

I only wish this young man had been able to escape the religion regulated shithole that is the Levant and come to North America so he could have played with network analysis and other nerd stuff instead of being smeared across the pavement by monotheist psychos.

> In its self-proclaimed status as a caliphate, it claims religious authority over all Muslims across the world and aspires to bring much of the Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its direct political control, beginning with territory in the Levant region, which includes Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, and an area in southern Turkey that includes Hatay.

"Daesh" is short for "al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham", which means Islamic State(or Nation) of Iraq and al-Sham (the Levant or Syria)...

> but the "Levant" region really has a lot to offer You lost me there.

The former Republic of Venice had a lot of contact with the "levant", and whereas Greek didn't seem to be problematic (the Venetian dialect incorporates, supposedly, a number of Greek loan words such as 'piron' for fork), I guess Arab was, and thus became the incomprehensible language.

They don't have any real allies and have propped up a few Shia proxies in Iraq and the Levant.

I learned the hard way that you never, ever want to play as the Levant.

Look at any of the cuisines from Europe through the Levant.