Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.
Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”
The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory.
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Genghis Khan would like a word. So would Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, and Hirohito. Those are just the ones I can name off the top of my head.
So you’re saying it’s a cultural issue. Would you agree then that if easterners were to get culture that would allow them to justify colonization and murder, they would do the same things as westerners?
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Okay well if it’s cultural then culture can be changed. So if you’re an easterner, you need to be careful that you don’t end up like westerners. The ideological plague that hit westerners can get easterners as well.
At the end there, It kind of seemed like you were heading back towards the race argument.
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Between person to person. Yeah that’s fine. But comparing population to population is dangerous. Once you know, what do you do with that information?
Historically, this line of thinking has never worked out very well. And as time goes on, who cares, we’ll all breed together anyway.
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No, I don’t take it personally and I would agree with you if you’re asserting these differences are cultural. Unless you’re saying this is genetic?
Edit: cultural or a result of societal pressure. I don’t mean to imply that particular cultures are bad.
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God I hate this myth. The Eastern world had its fair share of absolute dehumanization, be it the extreme brutality in education systems (Pol Pot claimed to have been beaten senseless by teachers multiple times for minor infractions and he had seen this as normal), the Mongol Empire razing cities on a monthly basis or the countless bloody civil wars in Chinese history. Name me a culture and I will name you the ways in which they dehumanized others.
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Re: Chattel Slavery: Egypt after the 7th century, Subsaharan Africa and after the Trans-Atlantic trade was shut down, the trans-saharan and red sea trade continued to ship Chattel slaves to the Middle East. Mauretania abolished it’s Chattel Slavery system legally in 1981, but the practice continues to this day.
Everywhere, where humans established empires, they dehumanized and colonized. Claiming that somehow western Europeans specifically are inherently more prone to doing that.
Even the claim “since Jesus’ birth” false. In the meantime, especially in the early years, there were larger empires than the “western European” ones.