History is not my strongest field of knowledge (honestly, I'd have to say, whatever my strongest is happens to be only by default since I only know a little bit of a lot of things and not much of any one thing). I only know of the middle east what I read in recent news stories. I understand very little of how things got the way they are, who hates or loves whom, who has what or wants what, etc. Is there any primer, whether online or in print, that you can recommend to turn me from an ignoramus to a not-so-bad-amus?
The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart Here you go. This should add to your confusion.
Wow, is that supposed to be clever? Even the likes of ignorant me easily note: 1) Arab != Muslim 2) Maybe I should set up a tent on your front lawn, then show you a property map highlighting how little of your land I'm occupying. 3) I don't even know how to begin to determine what land rightfully belongs to whom, but I do know that displaced Palestinians aren't looking at maps of SA and Egypt, Arab as they may be, thinking, oh, well at least they're unoccupied over there, so I guess we're cool here.
You asked a question: Is it supposed to be clever? No, it's supposed to be a joke. The rest of your condescending rant is based off your incorrect assumption. The middle east can wallow in it's same shitholeness just like it has for centuries for all I care. Arab, Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist whatever religion they may profess to be over there is of no consequence. Shit. Hole. Of course that is just my opinion.
My post was not a condescending rant. Your post above is. I get that the image was supposed to be a joke, but it failed to make me laugh. I like to laugh, so I was disappointed when the laughter I desire never came to fruition. If the image was satire (as in, satirizing Zionist logic) then it might have been clever, and therefore maybe somewhat funny, in such a context. Without such context, my previous comments deconstruct why I have to find my laughs elsewhere.
