In short, Israel is our colony and it's status is different than that of Third World Nations.
What a load of horse puckey! The US didn't even begin to subsidize Israel until the USSR began subsidizing Nasser in a big way; both Israel and the Arabs then became cold war proxies. BTW, we send Egypt $2 Billion a year, are they our colony too?
The Arab world lacks the infrastructure that Israel has. Because the West has been discriminating against the Arab world, they do not get the Corporate subsidiaries.
Say WHAT? We've been shoveling petrodollars to them hand over fist for fifty years. Our corporations have been in bed with Saudi Arabia and the oil producers since day one... Exxon, Chevron, Bechtel, you name it. Are you seriously trying to convice me that Saudi Arabia lacks the infrastructure that Israel has due to Western discrimination? Please don't insult my intelligence.
Face it, len, the Arab states don't have the same infrastructure because they have badly failed to modernize their economic and political systems. They tried Socialism, they tried Pan-Arabism, they tried state-sponsored mullahism; it didn't work. Lately they've tried blame-everything-on-the-Jews-and-America-ism; but that game hit a snag on September 11th.
Just because the Arabs treat themselves as victims of the rest of the world, YOU shouldn't buy it. Treat them as grown people who should be responsible for themselves. |
