I was in Dubai right after the recent Israeli destruction of Beirut and a lot of Lebanon and there were posters everywhere telling the population to donate money to Lebanon to rebuild and they raised millions of dollars on this campaign. My question is that if the Muslim world feels so strongly about the injustice they feel, why is this revealed through the media in such small and non-effective mediums? Why don't the Muslim nations stand up against the occupation more because it seems to me that its obvious that they strongly oppose it? Is it the fear of the defence that Israeli backed by the superpower United States? Why aren't there widespread protests by the Muslim community that surrounds the conflict on every side?
ok it's Iraq but it's interesting
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Here is a link to a blog put up by Morgan on a different Blog. There are a
number of entries that tie more to your topic than theirs. Enjoy.
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ReplyDeleteYou posed a number of good questions in your post. I think its important to look back at history especially at arab nationalism and how the Israeli/Palestine conflict has been a major role of it. Arab nationalism became really popular and peaked around the 50's with NAssers anti-Israeli sentiments because Israel had just been established. Before that many of the Arab countries tended to only worry abouthemselves and their currrent European colonialists mainly Britian, France, and Italy. But once many of the countries had independence they could focus on ISrael and they had Nasser to rally around. When the '67 war happened and the countries lost this pretty muched stopped the idea of Arab NAtionalism. Many people ask how did the Arab countries lose if so many different countries attacked. Usually the answer is the fact that they were different and seperate countries. Yes Nationalism was present but many of the countries were still concerned with their own efforts, arab countries also felt that there was to many differences between countries to actually unite. With the decline of arab nationalism and the humiliation of defeat I think many arabs felt they couldnt do much. The rise of arab countries making peace with ISrael also mae after that. The first country in the Middle East to actually recognise ISrael was Turkey so they have actually had good relations with ISrael. Then there is Egypt and Jordan who made peace as well. This is not to say there aren't people or countries that want ISrael's destruction. One country that has always had a rocky history with ISrael is Syria who allows arms to pass through to Hezbollah and the PLO in Lebannon. If there will every be a resurgence in Arab nationalism I believe it would be rallied against ISrael again. It wil be interesting especially now to see the rise in anti-Israel sentiments due to the recent fighting in Gaza, from arab countries and if this somehow unites them.
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