I just think it's rhetoric - any Islamic/Islamist state *has* to say something against Israel. Were the US to kill them with kindness and throw billions of aid $ their way I'm sure they would soon change their tune unless they were really hardline/intractable.
IMO what's needed is to get the 99% on both/all sides to gang up on the minorities in their own countries who cannot/will not compromise and/or for the US to bankroll peaceful nuclear power for anyone who wants it (not sure if this is possible, though I'm sure I read something about pebble bed reactors which suggested they might be viable as a power source but not for weapons). Yes, I'm an idealist...
Except that it seems to be a majority in many of these countries that would happily see Israel destroyed and would rather that people were governed by religious laws.
Yes. But - and very big bit - if they were presented with the choice of live and let live versus being martryrs which would they go for? I guess you could ask the same of religious fantatics in Israel. The irony is that the extremists are closer than they would think. I just wish the moderates on all sides would be extreme with regard to them...
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IMO what's needed is to get the 99% on both/all sides to gang up on the minorities in their own countries who cannot/will not compromise and/or for the US to bankroll peaceful nuclear power for anyone who wants it (not sure if this is possible, though I'm sure I read something about pebble bed reactors which suggested they might be viable as a power source but not for weapons). Yes, I'm an idealist...
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You don't see fanatical Buddhists...