Monday, February 23, 2015
On the Claim by Some that Peace Would Reign Supreme in the Middle-East if it Wasn't for Israel
Yeah, this a strange one in that I don't believe that Israel played a role in a) the nearly decade long bloodbath between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s, b) the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait in 1990, c) the Lebanese civil war of the 1980s (at least not in the beginning), d) the 1994 civil war that plagued Yemen, e) the Soviet invasion and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan - circa 1980, f) the current free-for-all between ISIS and the Assad partisans in Syria, g) the current bloodbath in Libya, h) Sunnis and Shiites slaughtering each other wholesale in Iraq...AS WE SPEAK, i) the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war and Black September from the early 1970s, j) the Egyptian revolt of 2011, k) the Shia insurgency in Yemen from 2004 to 2014, l) the present-day uprising and slaughter in Bahrain, m) the Fatah-Hamas struggle for power in 2006, etc., etc.....Yes, folks, Israel makes mistakes but to say that they are the major problem in that region is absurd. That whole fucking area has been a cauldron of war for multiple centuries and the sooner that we realize it the better.
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Modern middle eastern day society is merely tribes with sophisticated weapons.
Well, pretty much that consistent worldwide.
I would only add one word here; insane.
"Yes, folks, Israel makes mistakes but to say that they are the major problem in that region is absurd"
Less so than the other nations involved.
Yet, it is almost mainstream that the solution to these mistakes is to wipe out the nation of Israel. This zeal for genocide only goes one way, also.
You don't see anyone calling to wipe out all the Iranians for the mistake of their government, or to claim that the Syrians don't have a right to exist.
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