>>Dictators do use [hate propaganda against external enemies], but it works because the population supports it. The people really do hate Israel and the Jews.
True afaik, but it could never be the same scale without the official sanctions and official media. Otherwise it would just be like racism against e.g. blacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Arab_world
I'm sorry, but I just can't see this as anything but gigantic double standards.
An example before I run:
>>Many on the left do believe Israel shouldn't exist in its current form, simply because we don't think it was right for the UN to arbitrarily confiscate the land of a bunch of (largely) innocent Palestinians.
I don't know enough about the arguments re Palestine. I'll just note that there were lots of area changes after the world wars.
Palestine was hardly the worst (at a minimum, Karelia should be worse) -- but it is the only area where the subject is still problematic (well, there are some Japanese islands).
The reason that little area is still a big question is mainly because the Arab states refused to integrate the refugees of the civil war and destroy their lives. So the Palestinian refugees still remembers and hates.
Why have I never seen any criticism from the left of the Arab states for that?!
Agh, idealists... I seriously think they just hate everything that is supported by USA. (I don't know about other countries, but my local left wingers have never supported a democracy against a junta controlled place...)
I have too little time now, sadly.
>>Dictators do use [hate propaganda against external enemies], but it works because the population supports it. The people really do hate Israel and the Jews.
True afaik, but it could never be the same scale without the official sanctions and official media. Otherwise it would just be like racism against e.g. blacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Arab_world
I'm sorry, but I just can't see this as anything but gigantic double standards.
An example before I run:
>>Many on the left do believe Israel shouldn't exist in its current form, simply because we don't think it was right for the UN to arbitrarily confiscate the land of a bunch of (largely) innocent Palestinians.
I don't know enough about the arguments re Palestine. I'll just note that there were lots of area changes after the world wars.
Palestine was hardly the worst (at a minimum, Karelia should be worse) -- but it is the only area where the subject is still problematic (well, there are some Japanese islands).
The reason that little area is still a big question is mainly because the Arab states refused to integrate the refugees of the civil war and destroy their lives. So the Palestinian refugees still remembers and hates.
Why have I never seen any criticism from the left of the Arab states for that?!
Agh, idealists... I seriously think they just hate everything that is supported by USA. (I don't know about other countries, but my local left wingers have never supported a democracy against a junta controlled place...)