CWFoster wrote:You can bash Israel all you want, but there ARE a few Palestinian Arabs in the Knesset. How many Jews are there on the ruling Council in Egypt? in Syria?, Saudi Arabia? Lebanon? Iraq?, Iran?, Libya? Morocco, Yemen, Oman? Baharain, UAE, Dubai? Go ahead, I'm sure it will take awhile for you to count them all!
You think that maybe.... just MAYBE that MIGHT be indicative of the Israelis trying to have a government that is relevant to THEIR faith, and at the same time, tries to respect the sensibilities of others, as long as they aren't shooting rockets into their cities?
Take that one step further... you think that MAYBE that might be indicative that ALL those Arab countries have no concern whatsoever for anyones sensibilities OTHER than their own, and they have little if any tolerance for others?
OKAY ONE MORE STEP, now this is a BIG one, so get ready! you think Maybe.... POSSIBLY, THAT difference could make any comparison of moral equivalence between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood backed government and Israels parlimentary system to be propagandistic and intellectually bankrupt? I'll let you go have a cigar now, you probably have a headache.
If you want to look at how many Jews are in those various governments, first you have to look at how many Jews live in those countries. How many Jews are in the governments of Japan, Argentina, Brazil, etc. You could apply that same line of distraction to various US state legislatures.
You realize a government "relevant to their faith" is a theocracy, right? At a minimum it sure isn't a western democracy that we like to push all over the world.
By virtue of pure demographics, Israel has Arab members in the government but at a minority level that keeps them powerless. Lebanon has Druze Christians in the government but at a minority level that keeps them powerless. Israel will never annex the West Bank or Gaza because of the huge concern that the Muslims will out-breed the Jews and Jewish immigration and would eventually take over the government through its "democracy". Anybody want to disagree and call for a one-state solution? Wait for crickets for that one!
I haven't made any comparison of moral equivalence between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood backed government and Israels parliamentary system. I made a comparison between Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak dictatorships that we loved and supported with M1 Abrams tanks, Apache helicopters, and F-16s. I don't know what the wonderful democracy that we were slow to support will bring but we eventually threw Mubarak under a bus.
Remember, I said cut US taxpayer funding to both Israel and Egypt, don't send more US teenagers off to fight wars for either of them, build a wall around the entire region and fill it will sea water from the Mediterranean. They've had 3000 years and can't get along so we should end the US arrogance of thinking we can fix it.