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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (52116)9/14/2001 3:53:14 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
Sun-Tzu, I am sure all these books will show that indeed there is no connection between the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" and the hate for America emulating from the radical wings of Islam. I am not saying that the US did not err (taking down Musadek in the 50' and replacing him with the Shah might have been such an error, driven by the nascent fear of communist expansion into the oil rich middle east) time and time in that region, including its very recent criticism of Israel's ways of handling terrorism with forceful elimination of the terrorist infrastructure. I think that while the historic activities of the US in the mid-east were driven from the US/Soviet struggle and US interests in keeping access to the oil riches there, the current hate for American from the extreme factions of Islam, is simply driven by raw power lust and the local rationale (or call it the rallying battle cry) is instilling the fear of cultural absorption by western principles, such as the "strange" concept of equality between men and women (Allah forbid <g>), western concepts of human rights (and thus abolishing slavery which is still practiced widely out there), and not last the "decadent" western music and culture in general (which is invading their space via satellite TV). Throw in western economic dominance and you got yourself the armamentarium a demagogue needs to incite hate and xenophobia not seen in 60 years.

Zeev
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