So is there a clash of civilizations or is it a made up thing?

I don' know how you can deny that there is a clash of clans.

 

There are plenty of safe havens for Jews around the world. The United States being one of them. Why should there be a political state based on ethnicity? I have a lack of sympathy for the necessity of a Jewish only state when I see videos like this.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7NMwohMhP10" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
A father who had a perfectly prosperous life as an American citizen decides based on a fairy tale that he should uproot his perfectly good home in the US and bring his children to a much more dangerous region and on top have his children stir up the hornets nest and rile up even more hatred. He had a perfectly fine safe haven here. The reality is that majority of Jews who migrate to Israel today are perfectly safe in their place of origin. They move based on a fairy tale. No I have no sympathy for a safe haven for Jews. All of western Europe and the United States and Canada is a safe haven for your ethnicity.

I'm serious dude. Come move to the US. You'll like it here.

 

I think it's kinda of silly to argue about who is against Islamic radicalism and what's happening in that region of the world or whether we should be criticizing them or not.

More importantly, what is the solution? Sending American troops there doesn't seem to be the answer. Hard to think sitting back and letting it take hold over countries is very productive either.

Maybe secular dictatorships are the way to go.

 

The final solution to Islamic fundamentalism will occur when the world's major powers end their use of fossil fuels.

 

Yes, absolutely I believe in the right for Israel to be a Jewish state.

 

Gaza isn't a viable homeland - it's the most overcrowded place on earth. Unless Israel is willing to actually create a viable state for the Palestinains, which they are not - I don't see a 2 state solution ever happening.

 

I too am in favor of a two state solution. However, Israel can do more to erode the support of Hamas and groups like it by stopping their settlements, discrimination against Palestinians, allowing them the land they need to sustain themselves etc. By Israels brutal actions, oppression and discrimination they are only going to build more support for Hamas and groups like them.

 

States do not have the 'right to exist' and no state in the world but Israel demands that this pseudo-right be recognized by other states.

States either exist or they don't. Other countries recognize a state or they cease to recognize it.

Did the Soviet Union have a 'right to exist'? What about Yugoslavia? Or Czechoslovakia? Or Prussia. Saxony? If so, then their 'rights to exist' have certainly been abrogated.

It's utter nonsense, and don't get me started on the 'right to exist as a Jewish State'. It's manipulative to the core and should insult Jews everywhere (thankfully, a large portion of Jews do see through this farce).

 

The two state solution is dead. Just ask any credible authority on this issue and they will tell you the same. Even Aaron David Miller, the former lead negotiator for the US and former JINSA shill has said as much.

 

It's a lame pretext. They have a right to a Jewish state on land they've stolen, they have the right to defend themselves as they live on land they've stolen, and if you disagree with it you're hateful, anti-Semitic, and a terrorist. *snore*

 

Which won't happen any time soon, and no, won't solve the problem. These guys will keep going and going. They won't stop in the middle east.

The only solution is through education and economic development. The West really needs to understand this. You have to make fundamentalism unappealing to the general population. The same reason this country doesn't let Christian fundamentalists have their way - because our lives are pretty freaking good.

You fight fire with intelligence. You invest in the country in Muslim areas and build them up and equipment them so that they people living there are inherently against the destabilization fundamentalist bring.

This isn't a clash of civilizations as much as it is a race. A race to industrialize and bring these areas into at least the 2nd world before the fundamentalist can create another Afghanistan.

 

The Taliban and other Islamists like Boko Haram, etc. try to prevent education and economic development, sadly.

 

The problem is this extremism has gobs of money behind it. If Saudi wanted an end to this they could do it yesterday. You can't outspend the Saudis in building up these areas. For every dollar you spend building it up they spend ten cents tearing it down.

We really need to just get off oil. This religious conflict is going to last for a long, long time. We shouldn't be involved.

 

How about one state for all it's people (i.e. everyone whether you're in the Negev, the Galilee, Hebron, Tel Aviv, or Gaza?)

The two state solution is dead, the settlements rendered it as such. Wake up it's 2014 not 1994.