| I don't deny the preferential treatment, but it is necessary, imo. To sit on the fence and allow the rest of the Arab world to gang up on it, as they repeatedly have done in the past, will not improve matters in the middle east. Israel, for all its flaws, is a more open and free society than any Arab country. I have a greater respect for the ideals that Israel strives for as a society than, let's say Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran or any other nation in the ME. Arab nations need to be a lot more introspective than they have been for a long while. The U.S. and Israel are not the source of their troubles, though most Arabs believe it to be so. Arab nation, collectively, have to get together, with Israel and the U.S., and figure things out and forget about maintaining the idea that Israel's destruction is a viable option. |
