Ok, then lets not make it transcend but equal to anything else - where is the equal declaration concerning all the Arab states - made scandalously behind closed doors, with no nations voting - do you approve such? If Israel is rejected, then all the states carved out by Britain become first negated - because these are less legitimate, by every criteria. But you are solely focused on Israel, which is a nano spec in the M/E. Oh the Sufferin Pretend pals!
You assume that the carved states are equally legitimate, with support from the people who reside within the carved states (and that "Arab states" would automatically support other "Arab" states as if they existed as a single entity).
We (I assume you mean the "left") are not "concerned" with Israel, especially, but the actions of Israel (with full support from the USA) are heinous, just as the actions of Hamas are heinous. Just as the actions in Saudi Arabia are heinous, just as the the actions in Afghanistan (pre 9/11) were heinous, just as the actions in Iraq were heinous (but we made them worse...why doesn't the "martyr doctrine" sink in?). No one paid attention to the "extreme left" then. No one gave a shit about the increasing anger in the ME, especially the intifada in 2000, except the left. The left was screaming about the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the implications of extreme fundamentalism (not only with regards to human rights, but in general) for at least a decade before 9/11, but no one listened.
It only sunk in on 9/11.
And now the left are a bunch of sympathetic commie traitors...or whatever. Because we don't want to bomb them or try to make treaties with them with their infants on the end of bayonets. Because we saw this coming...not this exactly, but something like it and we want to *gasp* talk to them and see what they want instead of killing the young agitated adults and creating a new crop of fucked up kids. Because imperialism or the appearance thereof does not make for stabilized countries or happy fucking campers in what we hope to be stable countries.
Any great ideas besides those based on a 2,000 year old book? Something that might try to answer the modern conflict? Something that might have something to do with an answer based on something besides the OT or the NT?
"You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong--to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers. Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live, and your thinking has no place in the real world except in so far as it is phenomena of mental aberration." -
The Iron Heel by Jack London
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