The Limits of Diplomacy

[AAAintheBeltway]

Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:

Condemn him?

Not at all.

I think if Israel did leave, they would no longer be attacked, and there would be more peace in the middle east.

If the Lebanese people left, noting much would change....we have seen millions displaced and leave in the past few weeks...has that ended the violence?

Israel has the power to change the situation, to bring peace to their people, to save lives, to calm the area.

However, they are righteous, the chosen of God, blah, blah, blah....

Nonsense.

Do you think the violence in Iraq is about Israel? Will Iran be governed by rational people? Will al qaeda stop its campaign against the saudi government?

Israel is a convenient hot button issue used by those in power and those who want to be in power to distract the Arab populations from their miserable existence and the corruption of their governments.

If the Arab governments actually cared about the Palestinians, don't you think they would have extended some compassion to them and let them establish a new country somewhere else, like maybe in the vast emptiness of Saudi Arabia?

 

[ZZZzzzzzzz]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Nonsense.

Do you think the violence in Iraq is about Israel?

We were talking about Israel, not Iraq.

The violence in Iraq is about the US having destabilized a government that held the three factions in Iraq in check, the Sunnis, the Shias, and the Kurds.

Now it appears that the resolution to Iraq may be a return to a totalitarian leader like Saddam, or 3 separate states.

Will Iran be governed by rational people?

That is really up to the Iranian people.

Will al qaeda stop its campaign against the saudi government?

Maybe, maybe not. A removal of the US presence and the absence of Israel may bring peace to the region. The current situation certainly has brought nothing but war and killing.

Israel is a convenient hot button issue used by those in power and those who want to be in power to distract the Arab populations from their miserable existence and the corruption of their governments.

I would prefer we got rid of the corruption in our own government before we go tilting at Arab windmills.

If the Arab governments actually cared about the Palestinians, don't you think they would have extended some compassion to them and let them establish a new country somewhere else, like maybe in the vast emptiness of Saudi Arabia?

Get real AAA, you don't care about Arab governments or the Arab people, you care about oil.