Arabian Nights – And Other Myths of the Middle East
To hear Scheherazade tell the story, it sounds almost plausible.
"If we can end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and create a two state solution we will unite the Arab world to confront our existential enemy nuclear Iran."
The biggest myth of all is that any of the Arab States or Iran gives a damn about the fate of the Palestinians or a Palestinian State. Not a single Arab State or Iran has ever seriously used its petrodollars to improve the lot of the long-suffering Palestinian people. They have however, spent billions to inflame the conflict for their own political purposes.
Hamas and Hezbollah do not receive money and military support because they are fighting a war of liberation, but rather as a diversion for the populace of Iran and the Arab States so that… Continue reading | 10 Comments