Reply #9: It would all be more believable, Klat, if we weren't meddling [View All]

In the past 100 years, which arab states were not meddled with by
colonial forces from europe and america? Strike these off your list,
as anglo-imperialism has made for a real mess in most of its meddlings.

In world war 1 times, the entire middle east was an outpost of the
hapsburg empire, and later the british. What has kept the evil
government's in place are western dollars paying, like bribes for
oil rights. Without this economic slush, the whole ponzi scheme
would be long bankrupt and the region's peoples economically forced
to open up to change, as was the case in japan... a country without
oil.

I do agree, that many of these societies are repressive, but when
you support them with your right hand, its all a bit rich to scold
them with the left.

And indeed, i concur that our repression coincides with the racist
israeili approach of a 2 tier state, in the name of racial purity,
as sick as any south african state was as well a racially pure
operation. Arab? Sorry, get out in to the refugee camp, you can't
live here... Yes, it was your family's land once before, but now
we've taken it, and you're to get to the refugee camp for your kind.
..

So we come down to the kernel of the race hatred across the middle
east, the israel problem... caused by a century of foolish racist
repression against jews from russia to western europe, all resulting
in a diaspora building a defense-state in palestine. That is the
first nut to crack... to settle the rights of the disenfranchised
once and for all, paying off the arabs that were screwed when their
land was stolen and giving the remaining folks the human right of
citizenship in a free society.

Nasty arab governments could not have existed without western
complicity, and to brand them now, as the problem, misrepresents
the solution. We must stop thieving these poeple's nations, or
using a single democratically-taxed dollar to pay for support of
regimes like saudi arabia and UAR. We are taxed by the right of a
state that is underwritten by our bush-torn constitution. In no
place does it say in that document, that the blood of americans
can be spent to prop up dictators. Until we abide by our own
moral baisis, what is the point of blaming other peoples for loathing
their oppressors and supporting an alternate vision to dictatorship?