The Muqata
03 November '10
Conventional wisdom in the Obama administration is that somehow peace between Israel and local Arabs is the lynchpin for peace and success in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some Obama officials have gone so far as to imply (if not say outright) that US soldiers are dying because of Israel.
The problem is that once again the Obama administration has the situation completely backwards.
Peace in the Holy Land will only be possible once there is peace and democracy in the rest of the Middle East.
The US troubles in Iraq stem from Iran and other Islamic fundamentalists. And Afghanistan? That’s been a problem ever since the Russians got there, if not before.
And let's not get started on Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Lebanon.
And none of them were caused by the problems of the Holy Land. They were caused by fundamentalist Islam and their individual dictatorial forms of government (and the colonial powers that created these artificial Arab states in the Middle East).
And the solution to their problem has nothing to do with Israel (or Jameel trying to expand his house).
But the opposite is true.
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