With Israel's criminal air-strikes [9] on Iran's nuclear sites releasing [10] radioactive contamination [11], Bibi Netanyahu cynically invokes [12] the "Woman, Life, Freedom [13]" protest movement that shook Iran for months from September 2022. Of course nothing is less conducive to pro-democracy civil resistance [14] in Iran than to have this cause associated with the foreign power that is bombing the country's territory—and is itself oppressing the Palestinians with biblical justifications [15]. In Episode 282 of the CounterVortex podcast [16], Bill Weinberg again advocates a neither/nor position [17] that rejects the militaristic and reactionary regimes of both Zionism and political Islam, and looks to a secular order in the Middle East.
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