RE Question
※→ Issa, et al,
BLUF: I just have to laugh.
Issa said:
You just accustomed to oppressing and backing the oppressors. I'm sure you would be cheering for the apartheid and Vietnam War if you were around back then.
(COMMENT)
In various capacities, I did serve my country in Vietnam, as well as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen.
But my service does not change the reality of the Middle East conflict between the Hostile Arab Palestinians (HoAP) and Israel.
Israel was initially established through a recommendation by the United Nations. It became self-governing under the Right of Self-Determination. It probably would look much different today if it were not for the act of Aggression by the Arab League. It was changed yet again as the adjacent Arab League members conspired to mass forces along the Armistice Lines with Israel and reignited the 1948 War of Independence. And the sneak attack in 1973 did not do the conspiratorial Arab nations any good either.
Who knows what the territorial outcomes would have looked like if the HoAP had chosen peace over conflict; cooperation over belligerents.
The oppressors were that of the Arab League... NOT Israel. And it has been the policy of the Arab Higher Committee down through the Arab Palestinians to choose
(each and every time) conflict over peaceful resolution.
If there is someone here who is accustom to being the
(unsuccessful) oppressor, if there is someone who tries over and over again to insert race discrimination as a means of incitement to violence, it is the HoAP. Israel has been involved in peaceful Arab and Israeli relationships for more than a quarter of a century. Even today it is the HoAP that is opposed to members of the Arab League establishing a peaceful relationship with Israel. And --- it is the HoAP that is trying to drive a wedge between the Arab League members and Israel. Anyone who doesn't see that is simply falling prey to the Ostrich Effect
(burying their head in the sand), a very literal cognitive bias.
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Most Respectfully,
R