re: #259 Obdicut

I also blame those who continually pose the conflict in terms of Israel vs. Palestine, rather than Israel vs. rest of the Middle East. The Palestinians are mainly the proxy force used by the other Middle Eastern states, as can be clearly seen by those states’ treatment of the Palestinian refugees.

The anti-Israel crowd desperately wants to screen out the rest of the Middle East—except when places like Egypt can be denounced as American stoolies.

If you put the conflict into context, their narrative breaks down. So, the tendency is to ignore the context. You find a lot of denial about the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries after 48 for example. It didn’t happen, or the Jews who left were traitors, or the Zionists committed terrorist acts and blamed it on the Arab governments to get Jews to leave, or it has nothing at all to do with the Palestinians.

Actually looking at the history of the region, and how things could be set up so everyone gets peace, prosperity and clean water is pretty much out of the question for most of these guys.