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Originally posted by JeremySF
Oh, if it were just so simple. So are you saying that if we stopped supporting Israel tomorrow, the Arab countries would love us? ......
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Yes, it is this pretty much that simple...
The next time you spend months inside these "fanatics" homes speaking with them about life, politics, religion, etc....till all hours of the night, eating with them, drinking, etc.... Then we can sit down and talk about how they REALLY don't care about the Israeli issue....
HOWEVER, I agree with you wholeheartedly that there is more hate that solely the Israeli issue. Howwever from my experience or observation it was roughly about a 80/20 split on how that works. They hate us primarily for the Israeli issue and about 20% on other shit....
Please don't get me wrong I'm not trying to support or defend their position, merely state what exactly I gathered from direct personal experience back in the early 90s in that region (specifically the Ryhad & neighboring suburbs in Saudi)....
The people I came to know pretty well, from local college dudes to old bedoin guys & actually a few of the religious police (Mutawa)...were really nice people! Honestly some of the most hospitable I've ever met...
The majority had a lot of respect and admiration for the US, until we started discussing the Israeli situation.... That and the 'decadent' US culture becoming more and more of a problem in their countries, they're kinda being forced to deal with images of Madonna & Britney & don't always like that...at least not in public ;) I consider this in the same realm as how much the French love us for importing MaC-Donnalllds to them lol....it's a cultural growing pain that eventually they'll get used to.
Anyways, that's enough babbeling for me...
I agree with much of what you said, but people blow off this Israel issue too much as 'it's only propoganda' and I'm telling you, even if it is THEY are buying it and beliving it in DROVES over there...that in itself makes it REAL...
Also, as a side note I think the Palestinians and Isrealis are both guilty as fuck of doing evil shit to eachother....there are NO innocents in that region today :/ with the exception of most of the kids...and even then????????