(March 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm)Chuck Wrote:(March 3, 2015 at 12:36 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I don't have a problem with Israelis as a whole, but the policies the country pursues are counterproductive, and I don't think we should support them financially so long as they continue to act in a manner that harms our interests.
I don't have a problem with Israelis, but I do think the insertion of the state of Israel amidst an arab world just embarking upon a trajectory of secular nationalism and modernization at the end of WWII was the largest multilateral diplomatic blunder of the 20th century after the treaties that concluded WWI. The ongoing damage it is doing stability and progress in central Euroasia won't stop until either Israel or Arabs subjugate or displace the other from a large area between the Mediterranean and Persian gulf.
Knowing that the fundy bible view has always had Israel as a consolation prize to Jews as the Christian motivation to rush to the "end times" if I had been there to advise the European Jews and displaced Jews I would have said "Um guys, is that a really good idea to move there? Your so called friends the Christians are just using you to get past the velvet ropes, you are just their limo driver".
