ForeverYoung436
Gold Member
- Aug 10, 2009
- 6,050
- 1,228
- 245
ISIS is not "Arabs"I'm sure that some Arabs regard ISIS as being barbarian. King Abdullah said that ISIS is evil.
It's true that ISIS, al Queida, al Shabab, al Nusra, etc. do not represent all Arabs, but they are made up of Arabs/Muslims or converts to Islam. Let's not pretend otherwise.
Which makes yours and Phoney's points irrelevant to the discussion. The only pretence here is the attempt to conflate muslim extremist fanatics with Arabs in general and so demonise them as a group/race, etc.
It's not irrelevant since Arabs/Muslims have a predisposition towards extremism. (Again, this is not to say that all Arabs are like that.) Israel has to take that into account before surrendering her heartland to them. In the Middle East, it's hard to separate politics and religion.
What psychcogical studies have determined that Arabs have a greater predisposition towards extremism than any other group of humanity? Israel's "heartland" is not Gaza or the West Bank, neither of which is Israel's to surrender. Politics and religion are very prevalent in other countries outside the Middle East, America immediately springs to mind.
The West Bank is Israel's heartland in terms of security (without it Israel is only 9 miles wide at its waist, and the WB has the highlands), as well as in terms of history, archaeology, and heritage.