Israel isn’t doing anything TO the Palestinians but trying to help them with economic development (Israel is an employer and trading partner), education (Israel’s universities accept Palestinians), health care (the system frequently steps in to provide services unavailable in Palestinian hospitals), legal assistance and advocacy — amazingly, Israelis are more free to advocate on behalf of the refugees than are the refugees under the the watch of Fatah and Hamas.
Check out Israel’s own far left.
The thematic “get the Jews” / “get Israel” is a part of language behavior and not corresponding with any political reality — it’s a reality in the head, rule based, and perception fixing. Some part flows down from Soviet cant about “American imperialist ambitions” and some about Muhammad’s statements promoting the superiority (by divine edict) of Islam along with the division and subjugation (to dhimmi) of Jews and Christians, as bogus a play as Soviet imperialist ambitions in Afghanistan.
Israel (and the Jews) keep getting in the way of barbarians, dictators, and fanatics.
The truth is the refugees of 1948 wouldn’t be so had the Arabs accepted Palestinian statehood at the time, but the thought of a Jewish state ( on purchased land sparsely populated) would seem to have been perceived as an affront to Islamic ambition, and there proceeded from that three wars (or more) of annihilation against the “Zionist entity”, which won each, claimed territory, enfranchised its immediate Arab Christian and Muslim population, and struggled on to maintain the possibility of a Palestinian state responsibly governed. For its troubles, which includes the evacuation of Jews from Gaza in a “Land for Peace” deal, it primarily provided Hamas and Company a rocket base (8,000 received before “Cast Lead”).
Islam’s best demonstration project today is burning itself up in Syria between fighting a brutal dictatorship, a cause with which only Putin and the Ayatollah would disagree — and possibly only for so long as fewer than 7 percent of his constituency can get around RT and read English freely — and fighting one another, and that to the extent that al-Qaeda as an organization seems to have repudiated ISIL as an affiliate — and there’s more nonsense and betrayal going on back there with money and arms today.
Anti-Semitism founded in the glorious dream of magical Islamic secession just doesn’t work, and governance in Islam — Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Algeria (has had problems this past year as well) is a mess.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood discovered intolerance toward itself inside of a single year’s foray into power.
Should Egyptians be or feel trapped between authoritarian personalities and systems?
Of course not.
Nor should Syrians, who in essence have no army defending their reasonable interests — rather Syria’s malignant narcissists (different talk, same walk on both sides) continue taking the country down brick by brick, and whether by barrel bomb or truck bomb hardly matters.
Perhaps I should think about it before hitting the WordPress “Publish” button.
Okay — a few additional comments . . . .
Egyptians with modern businesses, interests, and investments needs must have a security system guarantying their freedom to sustain their efforts in relation to them.
Syrians perhaps need an army that is not all about itself and its immediate lines of affiliation and alliance, but rather about the interests of the constituents of the land.
A great religion or a strong one affords hope, faith, and solace inclusively, not exclusively. The continuous perception of division — and take that further: trivial division! — drives the Islamic Small Wars.
The want of exclusive favor may do that.
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