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> If you want peace, you have to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia as well. Funny how Israel never gets mentioned by anyone!
by anad7 8y ago
> If you want peace, you have to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia as well.
Funny how Israel never gets mentioned by anyone!
- saiya-jin 8y agopolitical correctness, being called racist and whatnot
- flyinglizard 8y agoThat’s probably because Israel is a part of the Western world and nobody in their right mind is concerned about it becoming a military threat or sponsoring radical Islamists.
- Nasrudith 8y agoThe concern isn't becoming radical Islamists but becoming no different. The behavior is the ultimate problem. I mean the Shakers are technically a radical Christian sect who doesn't believe in sexual reproduction. Radical Martha Stewart fans deciding to kill people would be just as big of a problem.
- digianarchist 8y agoIsrael doesn't sponsor radical Islamists it just creates them by it's disregard for international law in the West Bank and Gaza.
- flyinglizard 8y agoAnd yet the heavy hitters (Al Qaeda, ISIS and co) never really bothered with Israel. They went directly after other Western nations which supported the Palestinian cause and sponsored Palestinians with billions of dollars.
- dbuder 8y agoBecause Israel doesn't fuck around, Israel sends a murder squad.
- madengr 8y agoWell if there is anything the Middle East can agree on, it’s their hatred of Israel. Probably better for Israel that they fight amongst themselves.
- aswanson 8y agoIsrael is a bunch of middle European people clinging to a mythology of an omnipotent real estate agent granting them land amongst a bunch of eternally warring tribes. It's not gonna end well. I just wish the U.S. would stay out of that bs.
- krapp 8y ago>I just wish the U.S. would stay out of that bs You mean the descendants of Europeans who clung to a mythology that the son of that same omnipotent real estate agent granted them manifest destiny over a continent owned by a bunch of tribes? And whose support for Israel is based, in part, on the belief that Israel as a state has a role to play in ushering in the Apocalypse of the Book of Revelations and the second coming of Christ? The phrase "not bloody likely" comes to mind. The US is in with Israel for reasons that go far deeper than geopolitics.