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Originally Posted by ganbaru
And if they ( the others middle-east countries) just wanted Israelians and palestinians to dissapear ?
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Nuh-uh they don't, or at least not the Israelis, ironically enough (the neighboring governments used to view Palestinians as...burdens, and pawns). Who else are the despots going to blame the woes of their population on if the Jews just packed up and left the Middle East? They'd lose the last flimsiest excuses left not to get up and shoot themselves in the head so their peoples could finally be free.
Although, one thing we can most certainly take from the recent revolutions sweeping the Arab world is that nobody was blaming the Jews. Not the Egyptians, not the Green Revolution in Iran, not the Tunisians, not the people of Dubai, not even the few Afghanis who support their own nascent "Green" revolution movement. They know who their real enemies are: the tyrants, the fundamentalists, not the Jews.
That of course does not excuse Israel's own right wing for radical, blatant provocation and the dangerous siege mentality. How many times have the peace efforts turned into a trainwreck because of those damned settlers anyway? And people can be quite rightly annoyed when Israel wrecks Beirut for the nth time invading Lebanon to take out Hezbollah or whatever.