Potentially Interesting Development

[Angrboda]

While I certainly understand (some) of the issues. (And likely will better after reading the article.) I must confess to some mixed feelings. The state of Israel was formed to benefit a people who were oppressed for both religious and ethnic reasons. It's not altogether clear to me that the Israeli state doesn't have some obligation to protect and further an important sect of that religion. And if not, then the whole rationale of defending Israeli interests, period, seems to go out the window, and Israel becomes little more than institutionalized anti-Arab terrorism, supported by the West.

It's a sticky wicket that I'm not sure I know how to entangle. It's a story repeated throughout the middle east, where religious oppression and ethnic oppression and political or economic oppression, all form an inseperable stew with no clear way to separate out the elements.