"Is terrorism bad?" Asking pro-Palestine protesters the tough questions"October 7th was justified?!!"
Must Watch: Is terrorism bad? PolitiBrawl’s Matt Miller asked pro-Palestine protesters in Washington D.C. if terrorism was justified in the fight against Israel. “Bring democracy to the Middle East?” Not as easy as you think…By Richie McGinniss  Before heading to the anti-Netanyahu protest in front of the White House last night, I dusted off the Keffiyeh that I got in Southern Lebanon in 2010. If I learned anything covering protests over the last eight years, it’s that the best way to avoid getting punched in the head for asking the wrong questions is to blend in. What I wanted to uncover was what exactly the demonstrators thought would be a proper solution to the conflict taking place in the Middle East. They were protesting Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu on the other side of multiple rows of nonscalable fencing and hundreds of officers of the law. As it turned out, the picketers were no longer focused on the “two-state solution” that has been the aim of peaceniks for the last half century. Instead, the majority of the protesters I spoke with wanted a one-state solution, under which the Palestinians, Israelis, and anyone else living there would have equal rights.This sounds nice on paper, but while studying Arabic and Middle Eastern history–and while living in Amman, Jordan in the fall of 2010–it became obvious that the only comprehensive truth over there is that absolutely NOTHING is as simple as it seems at first glance. (Continues below) Dennis Quaid on Helping To Secure your future….
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Democracy may work in America, but the Middle East has entrenched tribal divisions that ensure voters will cast ballots along sectarian lines. If we can gather anything from the unilateral (second) invasion of Iraq, it’s that Americans have a tendency to superimpose their New World idealism onto a place that is mired by thousands of years of war. As a model for a more palatable solution to the conflict, the protesters cited a return to the inter-faith peace that existed prior to European colonialism. Here’s the problem: Ottoman, Arab, and Roman rule over the region was not achieved through the kumbayah mentality that the demonstrators naively pointed to for a way to bring peace to the Middle East. Put simply, the Middle East has always been ruled by whoever carries the biggest stick. I gave up on this misplaced wishful thinking–along with using my Arabic anywhere other than Uber rides–when I realized how cynically both the Bush and Obama administrations manipulated the emotions of Americans in order to justify the continued funding of a war that could never be won. A war that was supposed to bring democracy to Iraq. Similar to when gun-control advocates tell me that they want to confiscate every privately owned AR-15 from the hands of American citizens, that toothpaste simply cannot be put back into the tube. If we are to make any progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict, it’s high time that the public comes back down to earth and understands the reality of the situation on the dry, water-starved ground of the Levant. A true Democratic system will never function over there. One need only to view the demographic makeup of [insert Middle Eastern country here] to know precisely how its people will vote. I do not claim to have a solution to the unsolvable problem taking place in Israel and the West Bank. But I do know that if we are to move forward as a country, our politicians should be asking one and only one question before making any deals: how will this benefit the AMERICAN taxpayer? No, that does not include American oil companies, or American defense companies, or international bankers that relish the petro-dollar’s multi-decade domination of global commerce. Average Americans are the ones who get sent over there to spill blood in the desert sand, and their well-being should be paramount above multinational interests that have dominated foreign policy for far too long. During times like this, the press should be asking the tough questions rather than endorsing whatever narrative is most politically correct. They should keep in mind that one simple fact: the Middle East is a place that can only be ruled by the sword, and I am sick and tired of our politicians and so-called media professionals pretending otherwise.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
"Is terrorism bad?" Asking pro-Palestine protesters the tough questions
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