Why, every time I bring up something evil the Israelis are doing, do you counter by talking about the Arabs?
Do you think that Israeli policies occur in a vacuum?
That the creation of Israel wasn't contemporaneous to the arbitrary creation of numerous other Arab states, all involving the subjugation (and often oppression) of various tribes and peoples?
What I'm tired of is how people of your ilk spend inordinate amounts of time discussing Israeli responsibility for this and that, but seldom wish to criticize Arabs when they engage in similar, or even more brutal, activities. The consequence of this ommission of objectivity is that it feeds the impression that somehow Israelis are cruel racists victimizing those enlightened, spiritual Arabs....
Not that it matters that NONE of these Arab states are democracies.. That the press constantly remind of us Sabra and Shatila, but never mention Hama, or Black September..
It is precisely because loyalties are based on religion and tribe, that these experiments in nation-building, in Iraq and Afghanistan, are going to be failures.
Hmmm... So Western societies can successfully make the transition from clan/tribe, as well as aristocratic and monarchy, but the Arabs and muslims are incapable of this?
Now who's implicitly guilty of cultural racism? I guess you probably still think the same thing about Africans, don't you? They are tribal/clan based as well...
But not those Arabs, nope.. They can't manage to handle democracy, or even liberalized society.. Don't try and encourage them..
Don't try and make it possible for freedom of speech and other liberal values to establish themselves in a manner where no future government can risk denying them...
Nope.. just sit on our dead @sses and let all of those young people become brainwashed by unaccountable power elites, to fight for various petty causes... or even worse, to wage Jihad at the urging of Wahhabist militants.
What a wonderful defeatist attitude Jacob..
Thanks goodness people of your ilk did not make up the majority of the US population in 1776... We'd still be an English colony..
Hawk
It effectively excuses
People with your views
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