The hatred has been there since the 70s, at the very least. Watched a great video on Iran from Rick Steves filmed in 2009, and when he visited a mosque there was a large sign calling for the death of America and Israel.

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megous an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"death of America and Israel" These are states. A particular instance of cooperating individuals, with some overall vector of behavior that affects people elsewhere. Wishing for that to end is hate how exactly?

I would not mind, and I actually wish america and israel and russia and few other states end as they are today (not just a mild refactoring, end and split to 10s of smaller independent entities, that can cause a lot less harm individually) and end up with reduced externalities on the rest of the world, and lot less power to walk over rest of us.

I don't even mind calling it death to america or whatever, because it would be. So why not.

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phs318u 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You know history goes back before the 70’s right?

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singleshot_ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe he means 70-79 CE

	▲	defrost 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		500+ years prior the Greeks and Iranians were going at it for half a century in the Greco-Persian Wars (499 BC - 449 BC). That's, what, 2,000 years before the settlement of Jamestown by Europeans.