There is yet another op-ed in the paper blaming Israel and the US for all of the ills of the middle east. I am willing to listen to those accusations, after all the US has really screwed up in Iraq (but the sectarian stuff is NOT the American’s fault) and Israel is always doing something, which even if justified, pisses people off. This guy went over the line though, he is blaming the Hamas/Fatah mess on both the US and Israel. Please, if the US and Israel had anything to do with it, Hamas wouldn’t be left standing. Let’s face facts shall we? Arabs have been killing each other long before the US started meddling over here and before the state of Israel was created. There is a cultural tendency towards revenge and retribution over here. No one is willing to “bury the hatchet,” it’s too important to exact revenge. What other countries have government ministries and non-profits dedicated to mediating revenge cases? And let’s not drag Islam into this, they were fighting and killing long before Mohammed (PBUH) came around. You don’t see Indonesia suffering from this sort of violence, and they are the largest Muslim country in the world. No, this is an Arab thing, reinforced over the course of centuries. People, governments, and religious sects all follow the same revenge plan. How do you fix something like that?
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