(March 4, 2015 at 10:10 am)Nestor Wrote: Israel is behind ISIS? What American news outlet said that? Lol.
I have thought about this. While I've yet to be convinced that Israel is behind IS, I have found this interesting Wall Street Journal article titled, "
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas". Probably worth a read. Seems like those on the political Right are always happy to support Fascists/religious fanatics, regardless of their religion, so long as it stops the political Left from being in power. In my opinion, the existence of Hamas appears to have two goals:
1. Divide and conquer. They want to stop the Leftists/Secularists (e.g. the several Marxists/Communists in the chamber) in the
Palestinian Legislative Council from gaining too much influence.
2. As a justification for bullying the people of Gaza. Israel needs international support in order to exists as they are surrounded by countries that hate it.
We saw the same thing in Afghanistan when the United States wanted to get rid of the Communists there. They supported the Fascists fighting the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Ever since the United States and their allies of convenience in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan supported the Mujahadeen back in the 1980s, Afghanistan has been in a state of permanent war. Afghanistan is now much worse than it once was as the ruling Communist party actually gave women an education and managed to
get a human into space. Afghanistan once also had large Hindu and Sikh communities but they are now gone.
But back to ISIS. They are attention seekers and should not be listened to. While the goings on Arabia steal the headlines, there is civil war in South Sudan. The media is largely ignoring the Civil War. I think it deserves way more attention than it has got. All the headline grabbing news stories from Africa seem to be about Boko Haram - with a smattering of Libya and Somalia every so often.
Children are being kidnapped in South Sudan too! And in large numbers! So it really bothers me that the conflict in South Sudan isn't receiving much attention!