Watch what happens when the combined country of Israel / Palestine begins doing stuff like fielding a combined athletic team at the Olympics or competing in international soccer.
VERSUS
"No amount of appeasement will make any Arab State love us; they hate us; but worse, they despise us. We should not mind hatred, but we can make them respect us."
Carl, your posts the last few weeks have really confused me. Maybe I misunderstood your point of view before, but the "Pollyanna" posts from you lately have surprised me.
The hatred between the Arabs and the Jews in Israel had been heated up to a roaring fire in the last century. When you combine that with the fighting that has gone on between the "West" and the Arabs since the dawn of Islam, you have a force that will never, in our lifetimes, be peaceful. It is not only Jew versus Arab, it is the modern West versus the barbarian East.
About all we can hope for, IMO, is to hold them at bay while they modernize, even if it is against their will. The individual Arab wants what we have, but he will never accept it from us. He has to get it in spite of us. It is going to take a long, long, time for this culture, tied to its religion, to westernize and accept us. I am sure my grandchildren will not see it.
It is interesting to look back and realize that we thought the Asian cultures were going to be the tough ones to westernize. But they never had the Religious hangup that Islam does. |
