Quote:But I will say this.   When children are taught at a very young age to hate Israeli's and others that are different than them and when most eventually become terrorists or terrorist supporters,  you better believe I'm going to call these individuals beasts.   This doesn't apply to the ones that don't act that way.   Actions speak volumes. 

Have you ever studied the history of that region? Like, actually looked it up in unbiased history textbooks and on the surprisingly-neutral Wikipedia? Arabs have been given no shortage of legitimate, diplomatic reasons to hate the existence of Israel since the 1910's--before there even was a modern Israel. The history of that region after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire is one of the west's greatest screw-ups. I don't think particularly highly of the Palestinians who are teaching their kids to hate Israelis specifically because they're Israeli, but I can hardly fault them for hating America after we have repeatedly stomped on the throats of those who had lived there for millennia in order to give a nation to those who'd largely left for centuries, then returned about ten years prior to deciding that they were a nation now.

 

I had a whole scenario written here for you to think about regarding the creation of Israel and why Arabs have every reason to be ticked off at its existence and continued protection by the US, but I'm pretty sure it crossed lines on the CoC. Just go look up what actually happened in the historic region of Palestine between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and today, and even though I doubt you'll acknowledge it, you'll at least see why the creation of Israel is the most poorly-handled bit of diplomacy the US has ever embarked upon, and why the circumstances leading up to it and following it were just thoroughly screwed up by the entire western world.

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