rvg, some couple of years later?

[Hax]

That's Israel, not us.

Since you don't bother reading: American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Being insensitive to public opinion <> "characterised by general ignorance concerning even aspects that any amateur historian or anthropologist could know about the Middle-East"

Read again: "and largely ignorant of".

Like Hamas?

Yes, because that's the only Islamist organisation everywhere anywhere all the time.

It's not worth $26.00

Yes well, y'know, it's your choice. You do realise that's exactly what's wrong with the world, right? By the way, it was written by this guy.

The thing is that you already think that you know everything you need to know about the Middle-East. Everything that differs from or seems to disagree with this opinion is immediately disregarded as wrong.


EDIT: By the way, remember that thing I said about the Ba‘ath party executing children a couple of threads back? I found the passage:

Warning: graphic descriptions

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The next pages, therefore, belong to dr. Shahristani: [...]"One prisoner told me he was seventeen and he was the youngest prisoner and so they made him sweep the corridors of the internal security headquarters every morning at seven o'clock. He saw a peasnt woman from the south with tattoos, he said, a woman from the marshes with a girl of ten and a boy of about six. She was carrying a baby in her arms. the prisoner told me that as he was sweeping, an officer came and thold the woman: 'Tell me where your husband is - very bad things can happen.' She said: "Look, my husband takes great pride in the honour of his woman. If he knew I was here, he would have turned himself in.' The officer took out his pistol and held the daughter up by the braids of her hair and put a bullet into her head. The woman didn't know what was happening. Then he put a bullet into the boy's head. The woman was going crazy. He took the youngest boy by the legs and smashed the baby's brain on a wall.