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Silent H
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Message 11 of 63 (338668)
08-09-2006 5:01 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by riVeRraT
08-08-2006 9:35 PM


Re: True but...
There is a large group of people there that will never quit until the Jews are irraticated. Seems to be plenty of alliance going on.
You seem to have an incorrect view of this. There are plenty of alliances of convenience, and voiced alliances with no real support, but that doesn't mean anything as far as a large scale allied body with muscle to make things happen.
In the "Islamic world" there is definitely NOT a large group of people that will never quit until the Jews are eradicated. The largest group are people who are angry with the actions of Israel and want justice for other nations (against the only effective alliance which is US-Israel). The next largest group are angry enough they want the nation of Israel eliminated. That is NOT synonymous with jews, but rather the overthrow of Iraq (which we just did). There is only a small element that are patently antisemitic to the point that they want all jews eradicated.
On top of those views you have political and religious rivalries within Islamic groups. This prevents any sort of longterm cohesive action. About the only unifying element is when Israel and the US act in a way to make them have to worry about that, more than their internal concerns.
If it was as simple as you described, that most are united in wanting to kill all jews, there would not be the number of militant groups with different agendas that we see... there would be only one. And indeed if that were the case they'd probably have already succeeded in that goal. Jews are vastly outnumbered and rely on muslims to provide a lot of the day to day work within Israel. Their only possible hope would be (as has always been true in the past for wars) the intervention of other nations (most specifically the US), but even that might not work if it was about wholesale slaughter and not just military actions against the Israeli state.
Have you seen how they are reporting it on Al-jezeera?
Do you watch Al-Jazeera, or do you see what they are reporting based on the lens of whatever biased US media source you happen to watch?

holmes {in temp decloak from lurker mode}
"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away." (D.Bros)

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