Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: A real solution to the conflict [View all]Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Instead of promoting democratic values, the US administration promoted democratic structure. In other words, instead of promoting human rights, and womens and minorities rights, the Americans supported holding elections.
They failed to understand that it would have been preferable to have a dictator who allowed the promotion of liberal values (against his will and under US pressure), than to have a democratic structure that was indirectly responsible for bringing Islamic extremists to power.
So says the bigot: To solve the conflict, we first need to understand the underlying issues. This is not a conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinian- Israeli conflict is merely one front of a much wider international struggle the struggle between the West and fundamentalist Islam. Islamic theology assumes that the world is split into two groups: Dar al- Islam (the House of Islam the area of the world under Islamic rule) and Dar al-Harb (the House of war countries where Muslim law is not in force).