U.S. middle east policy, pros and cons: discuss

Damned Jews run everything in this country.

InfraBlue wrote:

That does not negate the fact that Israel was created for the benefit of the European Jews. The Sephardic Jews were caught up in the fiasco that followed Israel’s creation. Their expulsion from the countries of the Middle East benefited Israel in populating the country.

It does not matter for whom it was created. Just like the U.S. was created for the benefit of Protestants that did not fit into the religious beliefs of Europe. And now the U.S. is a very diverse society that the world thinks of as a diverse society (and so many people of diverse backgrounds want to come to the U.S.).

So, Israel presently has a Sephardic majority, and their countries of origin in the Middle East do not want them back. No different than the displaced people after the Holocaust that could not return to their countries of origin.

You seem to have little problem with the fact that Israel is actually composed of people that would have no country to live in, if it were not for the Zionist state, in my opinion.

Tell the Zionists that it does not matter for whom Israel was created.

The US' diversity has nothing to do with Israel's ethnocentrism. It's a joke that you attempt to compare them.

They've been very vocal critics of corruption in fact.

He said the United States must respect the Arab world’s history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values.

That these people would have no country to live in other than Israel does not justify Israel's repression of the Palestinian people.

It only proves how tainted Foofie's thinking is on this topic.

And they have also won a free and fair election. That's how democracy works, it's what the Egyptian people want, not what the American people want.

Elections do not a democracy make.

And it is our business when he tells the NYT:

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He said the United States must respect the Arab world’s history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values.

Or else?

His brand of democracy is to sentence a Coptic Christian to six years in prison for the crime of 'insulting' him.

Two Egyptian journalists are facing the same fate. Their crime? They insulted the smelly little weasel, Morsi.

If we had his brand of 'democracy', half the population would be in prison (insulting politicians is practically a national past time here).

(He's still not getting his buddy the blind sheik back, which, IMO is why he's engaging in this particular show of chest-thumping).

InfraBlue wrote:

That these people would have no country to live in other than Israel does not justify Israel's repression of the Palestinian people.

The Palestinean people are not repressed anymore than they were under the Ottoman Empire. But, I guess when Jews are in charge that is really humiliating for a non-Jew.

I suspect that accepting a Jewish state is very humiliating for many a Gentile worth his soccer ball.

By the way, Israel is an ethnocentric state due to the ethnocentrism of Europe. Perhaps, they learned it over the two-thousand year learning curve of state sponsored anti-Semitism?

A court in Bahrain has sentenced the prominent pro-democracy activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, to two months in prison.

A judicial source said she had been found guilty of destroying government property, which her lawyer said related to her ripping up a picture of the king.