Trump likely to acknowledge Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

[Pannonian]

Maybe there's another way to look at it: if Israel now is Western-ish, and it is in the process of becoming more Middle Eastern-ish, do Western countries have either a duty or a self-interest in trying to prevent Israel from becoming more Middle Eastern-ish?

What right do we have to tell them what to be? We don't tell the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to drop the Islamic bit in their being, and they actually have a blasphemy law which people have been condemned to death for.

Also, if we want to talk about self-interest, maybe we should start with Assad. Saddam should have been the lesson, but we stupidly repeated the mistake with Qaddafi, and are now determined to repeat it again with Assad. If a brutal secular dictator is in charge of a Muslim country, thank our lucky stars and do not interfere.