The entire region isn't in turmoil..
Well... I guess it depends on what you value. If you value modern human rights, science, arts, literature and so on, then I'll stand by my claim.
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The entire region isn't in turmoil..
Turmoil is the wrong word. Plenty of Middle Eastern countries are quite stable. But you are right about human rights, if not about the rest.Well... I guess it depends on what you value. If you value modern human rights, science, arts, literature and so on, then I'll stand by my claim.
Israel is the reason the region is so unstable. Compare that region prior to Israel's illegal occupation and look at it after. The reason Saudi wont stand up to Israel is fear, fear that Al Saud family will lose power over the country
Have you spent much time in Arabia in the past 20 years?
That's quite a bizarre claim. One of the first things that occurred in Iraq and Libya after we toppled their governments and wrecked their countries, is that they were opened to exploitation by Western corporations. It's all about profit. That is the new colonialism and it's not so different from the old one.
There is a longer history that is involved in the Middle East. The tribalism of Islam, Judaism, and by the way Christianity is rooted in a long history including the Crusades and Western colonialism to cut up the Middle East to suit Western interests,. There is long history of the Jews being expelled from their homeland, and than of course moving in to reclaim it. The Middle East has long been a Battle ground for tribal dominance going back to years recorded in the Torah.
I do not approve of the history of the formation of the State of Israel on a militant basis, but it is a fact of life that reflects history that the Jews moved and staked their traditional claim of their homeland, just as the tribal turf war has been taken place for thousands of years.
One thing that has not been brought up and is an elephant in the room, and that is the Islam of Saudi Arabia is among the most radical militant fundamentalist divisions of Islam.
You obviously don't know anything about Saudi Arabia. The Wahhabis are the opposite of militant.
Dear exchemist,Nobody is stealing anything and there is no colonialism. The oil and gas belong to the nation states of the Middle East, and is sold by them at market prices.
Now, you may argue that the rulers of these states are siphoning off the wealth of their people for their own gain, but that is another issue.
Some of them are even using it to export a horrible variant of islam to the West, where it leads to cultural discord and terrorism. That is also another issue.
It is about time people in the Middle East stopped blaming everyone but themselves for this mess.
Yes. That is what goes, inevitably, with being the most powerful nation. However one can question how wisely this power has been used.Dear exchemist,
then why do USA involve affairs in the Middle East countries like Iraq, Syria...?
Is USA genderma of the world?
God bless you and may Muslims stop killing each other and the western states stop stealing their oil.
May the oil and natural gas of the middle east fall to the hands of the people who will use it most wisely.
Yes, it may well be that oil in many of these countries creates a sort of resource curse.It seems to me that middle eastern countries are simply selling their oil to the west.
Whenever you are ready to give evidence for this alledged theft...
Actually, I'ld rather say:
"May the oil and natural gass industry world wide be shut down asap and replaced by clean energy"
It's my hypothesis, btw, that a complete halt to using fossil fuels for energy will, in the long run, be the stepping stone for the muslim world to enter the modern age.
Because it's thanks to petro dollars that the ruling elites in the middle east can maintain their iron fist power.
That power and wealth will quickly fade away when the oil wells become worthless due to no more customers.
It seems to me that middle eastern countries are simply selling their oil to the west.
Whenever you are ready to give evidence for this alledged theft...
Actually, I'ld rather say:
"May the oil and natural gass industry world wide be shut down asap and replaced by clean energy"
It's my hypothesis, btw, that a complete halt to using fossil fuels for energy will, in the long run, be the stepping stone for the muslim world to enter the modern age.
Because it's thanks to petro dollars that the ruling elites in the middle east can maintain their iron fist power.
That power and wealth will quickly fade away when the oil wells become worthless due to no more customers.
Saudi Arabia has another 100 years of oil and gas..
The world climate doesn't though.........
Why are the western states staring at the oil and natural gas of the Middle East?
Isn't colonialism obvious theft?
Muslims in vain clash with each other, thieves continue to steal!
Shouldn't they be unity against thieves?
The Arab world was sleepy and apolitical until the end of the Ottoman Empire .. and nationalism has grown out of the problem of Palestine.
Not much nationalism in most Arab states.. certainly not in the Gulf States.
Fundamentalism and ultra-nationalism drive bigotry in the US too.
You clearly have NO idea what is going on in this world if you truly think that statement holds any weight. All you have to do is look at the middle east before the illegal Israeli occupation and after. Please show me how the middle east became better when those Zionist terrorist got there
I know. KSA has been funding studies to reduce emissions at schools like Sanford and Caltex for 2 decades.
Ah, illegal occupation.
Why dont you tell us about one place on planet earth
that was not taken by force from those who were there
before.
It sure is not where you live. You have zero moral high
ground to talk from.