"Israel has always been happy to go to the table with it's neighbors and discuss terms, they have made many concessions in the past," - I would hardly say Israel has been reasonable in its negotiations. Look at the situation currently, they continue to take over Palestinian land in East Jerusalem and evict Muslims and throw them out of their houses so that they can build more houses on the land for Israeli citizens. Israel cannot be described as a good country which has always seeked peaceful solutions, a lot of its current problems and violence are self-inflicted.
Recently, your right Israel has turned into quite the bully. When the state was first formed Israel was the one that complied with the negotiations and their enemies were the ones that usually broke them. IMO Israel got tired of it and has finally started fighting fire with fire. Is it right? No. Is it the best strategy? No. Do they have more reason than their enemies to do it? Yes.[/quote][/quote]
"Prove to me that is incorrect" - I'm not even sure where I begin. Axis of Evil speech, invaded neighbouring countries, anti-Iran rhetoric, threatening over nuclear programme etc.. Honestly, this really isn't something I should have to prove as its so obvious. Heres a basic start - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-US_re ... #2001-2004
"Before I can answer this truthfully you are going to have to expand the abbreviations" - IRA - Irish Republican Army, NI - Northern Ireland, UK - United Kingdom
"Those are very vague categories, I don't see the issue with putting all Middle East Arab countries into those two categories. Please point out the countries other than Egypt that don't fit into these categories." - UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon (North + Central), Pakistan, Iran (the citizens rather then the govt), Turkey, Yemen. I think that list will do for now.
"Recently, your right Israel has turned into quite the bully. When the state was first formed Israel was the one that complied with the negotiations and their enemies were the ones that usually broke them. IMO Israel got tired of it and has finally started fighting fire with fire. Is it right? No. Is it the best strategy? No. Do they have more reason than their enemies to do it? Yes." - I will agree with you here. Up until 1973 Israel was the one that acted respectfully and it was the Arab states who were more intent on making violence and trying to defeat it. However after that war and when Israel conclusively beat them and the terrorism started (especially during and after the Lebanon civil war) Israel really lost its way and dealt with the situation horrendously. I agree that they do still behave better then the other countries in the region, but as a free liberal democratic states we have to act better then the closed off totalitarian regimes.
