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Mar. 25, 2010 Regarding the Middle East and the perceived threat by Israel to peace in the region. According to some the greatest cause of alarm for the Arabs and the Persians of the region is the state of Israel. Israel is one of the few (or only) democracies in the region. According to popular opinion there are now two Satan's in the world, the great Satan (US) and the smaller Satan (Israel. I won't go into the military situation of the last 50 years or so but to state that Israel has always reacted against military attacks, any lands occupied being land taken to prevent further attacks. (Israel did launch a first strike on Iraq during the eighties in order to stop the production of nuclear weapons) The US aid to Israel is said to be the deciding factor in its military success but again I will not go into aid to the Arab world originating in the US as it is easy to look up.I will say that Israel gets about as much from the US as do many Arabs countries.What these exponents of the theory the US is behind the Israeli success story miss is that Saudi Arabia practically supports Syria and Egypt. No need to worry about creating a modern state supporting itself through trade and industry because the money given by Saudi Arabia to Syria and Egypt allows these states to get along without a private sector, the police and the military keeping the population in line while their leaders drum up support for themselves using the anti Israel/US line of propaganda. Any criticism of the government is soon turned into support for Zionism or some such thing which allows for the elimination of opposition. In these countries are radical religious organizations more vehement in their anti US/Israel stance than the governments of the countries in which they reside, these governments more afraid of them than they are of Israel. A situation develops where there is a competition to see who is the most anti US/Israel. The problems of the Middle East do not stem from the founding of the state of Israel, but from the formation of the organization of OPEC putting too much money into the hands of medieval societies. It has been the view of many that the formation of OPEC should have been stopped, through military means if necessary, but, with the war in Viet Nam just winding down and the residual anti war feeling fueled by organization in the west operating in the same way as their middle eastern counter parts, this would have been a non starter.The ignorance and malevolence of these anti Israeli organizations are but just another sign of the decay in western civilization following the end of Word War Two;just another lunatic organization on a par with a raft of others. Recommended reading The Tragedy of the Middle East; Barry Rubin
Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herziliya, Israel, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He is the author of 16 books on the Middle East and has edited another 17 that include the widely reviewed and acclaimed The Transformation of Palestinian Politics (Harvard, 1999) and The Israel-Arab Reader (Penguin/Putnam, 2002)
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