the spotlight is always on the Israeli's. But Israel isn't roiling the middle east.
It's internecine warfare and the clash of the regional powers that are doing it.
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It's internecine warfare and the clash of the regional powers that are doing it.
Darth Omar
Russian asset
this is 16 years later - 4 presidential terms. OBL is long dead. Keep trying for relevance -you can do it!
The struggle had endured for well over 1000 years.
Answer the question fool.
It is entirely relevant.
GazzaQueen
Verified User
Is it because of something that happened over 1000 years ago?
A lot of it happened 5000 years ago.
When history becomes irrelevant you will be the first to know.
anatta?
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
isn't it interesting that this thread was intended to be about Obama's foreign policy, but thanks to one post by Thing that was never discussed.......
How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore Apart the Middle East
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/middleeast/iran-saudi-proxy-war.html?_r=0
Behind much of the Middle East’s chaos — the wars in Syria and Yemen, the political upheaval in Iraq and Lebanon and Bahrain — there is another conflict.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are waging a struggle for dominance that has turned much of the Middle East into their battlefield. Rather than fighting directly, they wield and in that way worsen the region’s direst problems: dictatorship, militia violence and religious extremism.
The history of their rivalry tracks — and helps to explain — the Middle East’s disintegration, particularly the Sunni-Shiite sectarianism both powers have found useful to cultivate
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/middleeast/iran-saudi-proxy-war.html?_r=0
Behind much of the Middle East’s chaos — the wars in Syria and Yemen, the political upheaval in Iraq and Lebanon and Bahrain — there is another conflict.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are waging a struggle for dominance that has turned much of the Middle East into their battlefield. Rather than fighting directly, they wield and in that way worsen the region’s direst problems: dictatorship, militia violence and religious extremism.
The history of their rivalry tracks — and helps to explain — the Middle East’s disintegration, particularly the Sunni-Shiite sectarianism both powers have found useful to cultivate
Run man-child, run from the truth
GazzaQueen
Verified User
I'm sure you don't see the contradiction within your own post. Carry on.
Lightbringer
Loves Me Some Souls
Obama will go down in history as bad on foreign policy but Israel won't have a thing to do with it.
If there was one you would be the first to point it out.
what? jesus man. I'm not here for your beck and call..what "struggle"are you talking about?
Why did Bin Laden bomb the WTC?
stop being obtuse..if you have a point-then make it..
Ask Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for all I care otherwise.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Because he was a Muslim.