When talking about the Arabs we cannot help but also talk about the Arab culture of the time when they occupied Spain for eight centuries. They had developed a high culture and made progress in science while the Europeans were still primitive and were learning from their progress. Although the crusaders had killed all the Arabs in a Jerusalem mosque, Saladin has shown his generosity by sparing them and putting them on a ship that took them back to Europe, with a warning, never to come again. At that time, one did not see what we now encounter - the savagery of the groups or movements that we can call killers of human beings.
There has been a huge change recently, which disgusts us and turns us away from some of these Arabs, such as the Hamas, ISIS and others who live only for revenge, hatred, and murder, because they were taught to aspire to become martyrs. Unfortunately, the good Arabs, who are in the majority, do not have the strength to rid themselves of the extremists who hold them hostage.
Israel tried to make its utmost best to accommodate the Arabs within its borders. Even for the Gaza territory, which Israel relinquished to the Gaza population, Israel is conscientiously fulfilling its responsibility by consistently supplying them with everything they need, such as food, fuel, electricity, water, medical supplies and equipment and other humanitarian goods.
As long as hatred is not set aside, human beings cannot evolve.
Copyright 2014 Emile Tubiana
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Jane
These young Syrian rebels are not willing to give in to the extremist views of those held by ISIS, Al Qaeda and the lot of other terrorists that run roughshod over Muslim people. I think one of the reasons that ISIS is in northern Iraq is because they see northern Iraq as weak and were forced out of Syria.
I also read an article about underground heavy metal bands that play their music at private parties in Iran. Just like the Beatles music brought down the Soviet Union, young people with the Internet in all of these countries are gradually undermining the dogmatic irrational conservative points of a dead religion that has used force of terror to control millions of people yearning for freedom.
In other words, Arab people are not weak. They are oppressed by cruel leadership, but that is changing and the Arab Spring is far from over, it's just beginning.
Ron