Manufacture Dissent

It is despicable the way Palestinian citizens of Israel are being told to shrink themselves.

Across workplaces in Israel, Palestinian employees are being told to stop speaking Arabic — their own mother tongue — because it might make Jewish customers “uncomfortable.” Managers are demanding it out loud, as if it’s perfectly normal to demand that an entire people mute their identity so someone else doesn’t feel uneasy.

Middle East Eye documented cases where Palestinian workers were warned that Arabic could “trigger” people traumatized by October 7th. As if Palestinians — who have lived through decades of state violence, surveillance, land theft, and military rule — are somehow responsible for soothing the emotional fragility of the dominant, violent group of terrorist colonizers. As if their language is a weapon. As if their existence is a provocation.

This is a state project.

The 2018 Nation-State Law laid the groundwork by stripping Arabic of its official status and declaring that national self-determination in Israel belongs “uniquely to the Jewish people.” That law was a declaration that Palestinians inside Israel are guests in their own homeland — tolerated only when silent, invisible, and obedient.

Since the war on Gaza began, the mask has fallen completely. Lawyers say discrimination is now overt. Palestinian employees are monitored, reprimanded, and threatened for speaking Arabic even among themselves. They’re told their language is dangerous. Their identity is destabilizing. Their presence must be softened, diluted, made “palatable” for Jewish comfort.

It’s disgusting.

A country that claims to be a democracy is policing the language of the Indigenous population. A state that insists it’s “shared” is demanding that one group erase itself so the other can feel safe. This is the very definition of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Language is not just communication. It’s memory. It’s belonging. It’s the last piece of home Palestinians inside Israel still control. They cannot rewrite discriminatory laws. They cannot stop political crackdowns. But they can speak Arabic to each other, to their children, to their communities. And now even that is being targeted.

Suppressing a language is never about words. It’s about power. It’s about who gets to feel at home. It’s about who is allowed to exist without apology.

The cases documented by MEE are not isolated. They are part of a long pattern: Arabic downgraded in law. Palestinian political expression punished. Cultural symbols treated as threats. Now workplaces policing casual conversations.

The message the colonizing terrorists are conveying: Palestinian identity must be quiet, it needs to be completely erased. All for Jewish comfort.

Israel has spent years building the legal and social machinery to make Palestinian erasure feel normal. When a government signals that one group’s identity is secondary, society follows. And when society follows, discrimination becomes casual. Violence is expected as well.

Palestinians inside Israel are being told to silence themselves in the land they were born into.

Let that absurdity sink in.

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The United States is running low on the missiles it needs while the conflict is widening. Reports say Pete Hegseth didn’t fully brief Trump on how depleted key munitions had become, including long‑range guided missiles and air‑defense interceptors. According to the Washington Post, these shortages were part of why Trump held back from authorizing new large‑scale strikes on Iran. Hegseth reportedly blamed Deputy Secretary Stephen Feinberg, though both the White House and Pentagon denied the story. Regardless of the political drama, the core problem is that the U.S. doesn’t have enough missiles for the war it’s fighting.

The stockpile issue has been building for years. Precision weapons are expensive, slow to manufacture, and rely on supply chains that have been strained since the pandemic. The war in Ukraine drained inventories faster than production could keep up. Now the confrontation with Iran and its network of allied militias is stretching those inventories even further.

While Washington tries to rebuild its stockpiles, Iran‑aligned forces are expanding the conflict. In Yemen, Ansarallah (Houthi) fighters launched a major attack on Saudi‑backed government troops, killing at least 45 soldiers and wounding at least 50 more. It was one of the largest escalations in Yemen in years. Ansarallah have grown more confident and more capable, and they’re clearly willing to push harder while the U.S. is distracted and stretched thin.

Across the region, Iran’s partners are moving in sync. Groups in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen are testing U.S. positions, striking at bases, targeting allies, and opening new fronts. Every attack forces Washington to respond, and every response burns through more of the missiles the U.S. is already short on. Iran understands the pressure points and is exploiting them.

The economic fallout is already visible. Gas prices remain under pressure because instability in the Gulf always hits energy markets. Shipping disruptions in the Red Sea add to global inflation. Investors see a conflict spreading across multiple countries with no clear containment and adjust their expectations accordingly. A widening war becomes a global economic risk, not just a regional one.

The strategic picture is bleak. The U.S. is trying to rebuild missile stockpiles while fighting a conflict that keeps expanding. Iran‑aligned forces are opening new fronts faster than Washington can find an offramp for. Allies are exposed. Bases are vulnerable. Markets are nervous. This is only what winning looks like from Trump's pov.

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Rabbi “Pedo” Shmuley: “Say it again, say it, say f**k Israel”

Icelander: “F**k Israel. Do you want me to tell the world?”

Icelander: “How many times do you want me to say it? F**k Israel, f**k Israel, f**k Israel…I will say f**k Israel all day, it is my country…why don’t you leave?

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