[quote=FlyerInHi]I singled out Israel because proportionately Israel gets way more support from us. Even Kerry mentions Israel all the time as if we owe it to them.
We are the enablers of Israel. Without us Israel would have to rethink its survival in the region and make peace with its neighbors.
Saudi Arabia is a big country has has plenty if money.
My opinion is that the arc of history bends towards justice and democracy. We just need to support the democratic evolvement of the Middle East and let the chips fall where they may. We need to build our image with the population as fair arbiters. In the long run that would serve us well. If Israel is diminished and the Jewish state is no longer just Jewish because of the Arab population, and if the royal Saudi family falls, then so be it.
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Israel is not just Jewish. Roughly 20% of the citizens are Arabs. Not 20% of the population. The citizenry. Arabs hold seats in parliament. Jewish populations in the surrounding countries, which less than 100 years ago was over a million? Egypt, in the dozens. Syria, maybe a dozen. Saudi Arabia, zero. Iraq, less than 20. The number of Palestinian citizens of Israel, outnumber and have more rights than those of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon combined. So if we’re going to be fair arbiters in the middle east, we can only do that in the context of our own democratic framework. The only justice and democracy that has existed in the middle east over the last 100 years is in Israel.
