The Arabs....are NOT monolithic

**sephodwyrm** · March 30, 2009, 02:03 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7971624.stm

Splits among the Arab League nations have become glaring, says the BBC's Katya Adler who is in Doha, over Arab nations' differing attitudes to internal Palestinian divisions between the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militant group Hamas.

Arabs disagree with each other. Few Arabs want the destruction of Israel. Arabs have different ideas about the Palestine issue. And Arabs are not Persians.

But when the emir of Qatar switched off his microphone, Col Gaddafi insisted that he could not be denied the right to address the summit as - he called himself - the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims.

I find this part esp. amusing, though.

**ShADoW** · March 30, 2009, 02:08 PM

The Arab League is screwed up as it is anyways.

**Ishoss** · March 30, 2009, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by sephodwyrm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7971624.stm

Arabs disagree with each other. Few Arabs want the destruction of Israel. Arabs have different ideas about the Palestine issue. And Arabs are not Persians.

I find this part esp. amusing, though.

He got his talentless kid into a Serie A club, that gotta count for something.

**toto233** · March 30, 2009, 04:10 PM

thats

i live in israel and i know what real heppen 90% of the muslim arabs IN ISRAEL want the destruction of israel there are many polls that show this and i can see the arabs behavior every time there is a conflict there is fightings betwen arabs and jews

there are very few arabs who actualy wants peace and dont want the destruction of israel

**Mikelus Trento** · March 31, 2009, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by toto233

90% of the muslim arabs IN ISRAEL want the destruction of israel there are many polls that show this and i can see the arabs behavior every time there is a conflict there is fightings betwen arabs and jews

Why do you suppose this is?

**Каие** · March 31, 2009, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by toto233

thats

i live in israel and i know what real heppen 90% of the muslim arabs IN ISRAEL want the destruction of israel there are many polls that show this and i can see the arabs behavior every time there is a conflict there is fightings betwen arabs and jews

there are very few arabs who actualy wants peace and dont want the destruction of israel

Never have I seen a post full of total and utter lies and nonsense as much as this one.

**Babur** · March 31, 2009, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Яome kb8

Never have I seen a post full of total and utter lies and nonsense as much as this one.

Too true,and my dad's friend was at that summit and he looked pretty
bored

anyway the Arabs are indeed far from monolithic all the Gulf Arab states are friendly with the West for example.

**Orko** · March 31, 2009, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by toto233

thats

i live in israel and i know what real heppen 90% of the muslim arabs IN ISRAEL want the destruction of israel there are many polls that show this and i can see the arabs behavior every time there is a conflict there is fightings betwen arabs and jews

there are very few arabs who actualy wants peace and dont want the destruction of israel

have you, by chance, met 90% of Arabs in Israel?

**Babur** · March 31, 2009, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by orko

have you, by chance, met 90% of Arabs in Israel?

Probably not

**sephodwyrm** · March 30, 2009, 04:13 PM

The Arab League is screwed up as it is anyways.

I wonder if the Arab league is concerned about ethnic Arabs overseas as well. This squabbling is not doing any good to their street credit.

**toto233** · March 30, 2009, 04:14 PM

the arab league is a joke the arabs hate each other more than they hate the jews there is no arab unity

**fieldmarshal** · March 30, 2009, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by toto233

the arab league is a joke the arabs hate each other more than they hate the jews there is no arab unity

They are united in their hate for Israel.

**jankren** · March 31, 2009, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by toto233

the arab league is a joke the arabs hate each other more than they hate the jews there is no arab unity

Yeah, just like there is no Jewish unity. Before they even only had 12 tiny tribes and they still couldnt stop butchering each others. Crazy people.

yeah they disagree with each other about killing all the jews or throw them to the sea

they dont know whats the best choice

I hope they choose throwing them all into the Red Sea.

**sephodwyrm** · March 30, 2009, 04:19 PM

They are united in their hate for Israel.

Really?
The article suggest otherwise. They're disagreeing with each other about how they should treat Israel or Iraq, which is the reason for dissenting opinions within the league in the first place.

**toto233** · March 30, 2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by sephodwyrm

Really?
The article suggest otherwise. They're disagreeing with each other about how they should treat Israel or Iraq, which is the reason for dissenting opinions within the league in the first place.

yeah they disagree with each other about killing all the jews or throw them to the sea

they dont know whats the best choice

**fieldmarshal** · March 30, 2009, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by sephodwyrm

Really?
The article suggest otherwise. They're disagreeing with each other about how they should treat Israel or Iraq, which is the reason for dissenting opinions within the league in the first place.

I was being sarcastic.

There is a general discontent for Israel among the majority Sunni population,but the funny thing is, they hate the Palestinians equally...ok i understand some of it, because the Palestinians supported Saddam in his invasion of Kuwait, so after Saddam was booted from Kuwait, there was a little purge of Palestinians by the Kuwaiti's. Yes there is sympathy for the Palestinians, but there is also an equal amount of mistrust.

Well Of course there would be some disagreement about Israel from the Arabs, since most of them are US allies, and Israel is a US ally as well, it makes things complicated.

**sephodwyrm** · March 30, 2009, 04:36 PM

there was a little purge of Palestinians by the Kuwaiti'

Not just Palestinians, but Yemenis as well.

**fieldmarshal** · March 30, 2009, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by sephodwyrm

Not just Palestinians, but Yemenis as well.

Yup, when i was in the ME, i noticed that the rich oil states, looked down on the poorer ones like Yemen, Jordan, Egypt. Like Arabs from these poorer states were treated like immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other Asian countries. Its bizarre.

**Thema'zandaar** · March 31, 2009, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by fieldmarshal

Yup, when i was in the ME, i noticed that the rich oil states, looked down on the poorer ones like Yemen, Jordan, Egypt. Like Arabs from these poorer states were treated like immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other Asian countries. Its bizarre.

That's nationalism for you.