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As I said, I'm not venturing into the Israeli/Palestinian 'debate' as I don't want to take on five hundred Israeli apologists all armed with the same talking points.

He did. He asked you to name the ones - there are 57 - which are kind and treat other nations well and don't discriminate or take advantage or brutalize or abuse. True, but only a few Muslim states are run by theocracies. What's the excuse for the rest? People mention this endlessly. I guess because it's the only democratic government on earth ever overthrown with the help of a foreign power... oh wait... Lots of governments do their best to stir up trouble in other countries, their best limited by a variety of factors. South and Central America had lots of experience with this, yet we don't see that being constantly blamed for their present day behaviour - perhaps because they are mostly far and away more democratic now than any Muslim states. It was land owned by the former Ottoman Empire which disintigrated and was being managed by the victors in a war - just as has happened throughout history. The 'additional land parcels' Israel has taken since are likewise the spoils of war. A time honored tradition hardly unique to this region. They're not a country, therefore they don't get to decide trade. LOL. You realize the Arabs had no clue there was oil, or what it was good for, right? It was developed by the West, and they were paid for it - underpaid, perhaps, but paid and agreed to the payments. They still have no ability to maintain their oil facilities, btw. They are all managed by westerners. How is this different from all over the third world, where mines were developed, resources extracted, and the locals paid whatever bare minimum people could get away with? All major powers support friendly regimes all over the world. Witness the Chinese and Russians. The alternative to the Saudi regime, from all I have read, is one which is far more rigidly authoritarian. The only strong movements against the Saudi government come from groups which think they are far, far too liberal. Muslim nations have not been treated any worse than any other nation out there, given their power and abilities to deal with other governments. It's a big, bold, mean, cruel world. If you say you're an independent nation run by yourself should everyone be nice to you because... well, because you're special or something? What and where has that EVER happened? When in history have kindly nations refused to take advantage of other nations which were willing to grant them things at low cost? You want to look at how Islamic warlords invaded India and slaughtered literally hundreds of millions of people? What the Spanish did to the Azteks? What the Europeans did to the NA indians? What the Japanese did to Korea or China? What's fair got to do with anything?

The above fractured syntax is incoherent, irrational and an illustration of extreme simplism. You engage in a clumsy disjointed attempt to state that whether a Muslim country is assisted by or conflicted with the US its shortcomings are all caused by the US. Your comment is moronic. The US did not draft the Koran nor did it implement Sharia law in Muslim nations nor did it even exist for the vast majority of the time Muslim countries have existed and been at war internally or externally. In your world everything can be blamed on the US government. It also necessarily means since you are in conflict with the US government, your behaviour is solely the result of the US and not your own free will. Might I suggest your issues might be caused by a congenital conditions and not by the US government.

Reading up on......... .......Looting?