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| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
I'm sure its easy to tell what kind of bomb fell on you. |
the rest of the world isn't as sheltered about u.s. foreign policy as we are. everyone over there knows where israeli ordinance, israeli tanks, jets and helicopters come from. everyone knows how much money we give them in aid every year, and how deeply embedded aipac is in our political system. in fact, around the world, most people see america as israel's lapdog. and i would call that a fair characterization. with the whole issue made out of iran in this conflict, few people realize that the united states is seen as the iran to lebanon's hezbollah... iran supplies hezbollah with rockets, united states supplies israel with missiles. both are being used to kill civilians. except who is going to be sympathized for and who is going to be demonized in the end? yesterday i saw an american flag being burned alongside an israeli flag by lebanese refugees in syria. it might not make any sense to you or i, but israel is damaging our middle east relations just as much as they are their own. it doesn't matter that the majority of americans think israel is going too far, when the official stance of the united states is that israel isn't doing anything wrong and we have no objection to their actions, that's all that resonates with the arab world.
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Last edited by R!CH on Jul-21-2006 at 21:15
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