Shadi, maybe Democracy isn't inherently good at all. If our democracy demeans Arab and Muslim lives, and Arab/Muslim majority democratic nations would be (and are) inherently Antisemitic, or Anti-Israel, perhaps the only good thing about democracies is that they elevate the kind of compromise that might make for peace agreement in the Mi…
Shadi, maybe Democracy isn't inherently good at all. If our democracy demeans Arab and Muslim lives, and Arab/Muslim majority democratic nations would be (and are) inherently Antisemitic, or Anti-Israel, perhaps the only good thing about democracies is that they elevate the kind of compromise that might make for peace agreement in the Middle East, were it not for these states being at each-other's throats.
To be clear, Zionism exists because of American and European Antisemitism, (we feel bad, so here's a country for you over there). Maybe that makes the West is the worst of all.
Shadi, maybe Democracy isn't inherently good at all. If our democracy demeans Arab and Muslim lives, and Arab/Muslim majority democratic nations would be (and are) inherently Antisemitic, or Anti-Israel, perhaps the only good thing about democracies is that they elevate the kind of compromise that might make for peace agreement in the Middle East, were it not for these states being at each-other's throats.
To be clear, Zionism exists because of American and European Antisemitism, (we feel bad, so here's a country for you over there). Maybe that makes the West is the worst of all.
Democracy empowers people. And people often have hateful, shitty conceptions about each other, and use that power to hurt each other.