Blame Israel

Why are all the Arab leaders obsessed with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict? Arab leaders themselves hardly are coming up with road maps or seem to be in any great hurry to solve the problem.

The answer is simple, it's because Israel (and it's ally the United States) is an easy scapegoat for the Arab leaders to fuel the frustrations of their own societies away from them.

Thanks to 2Slick, I came across this great article written by Haim Harari. It is long, but it is well worth the read. It highlights some of the problems in the Middle East - and why Israel is a scapegoat.

Click Here to read.

"Why do I put aside Israel and its own immediate neighborhood? Because Israel and any problems related to it, in spite of what you might read or hear in the world media, is not the central issue, and has never been the central issue in the upheaval in the region. Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is.

The millions who died in the Iran-Iraq war had nothing to do with Israel. The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel. The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilian in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel. Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait, endangered Saudi Arabia and butchered his own people because of Israel. Egypt did not use poison gas against Yemen in the 60's because of Israel. Assad the Father did not kill tens of thousands of his own citizens in one week in El Hamma in Syria because of Israel.
The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with Israel. The Libyan blowing up of the Pan-Am flight had nothing to do with Israel, and I could go on and on and on."