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I think the entire notion of arabs respecting only power is entirely racist.

Note that Syria is not getting attacked in Lebanon like Israel had been.

The fella on hardball was an arab, he said, yet he made racist remarks about arabs. This tells me that the was probably a Christian arab with an agenda, good or bad - that's open for interpretation.. But I have little respect for this or that group which attempts to manipulate other groups to do their bidding. Especially when they can't hold their own after the deeds are done by their big brothers..

Racist people are unworthy, in my view, whether this or that religion or race or nationale, does not matter.

I think the answer to "why they don't respect Israel" is simple. If the schools in the USA were to have been teaching black hate, then there'd be rejection instead of acceptance. Arab schools have, for the large part been teaching Jew hate. Why? To keep their people's minds off of the real problems they have there, and to be able to establish and maintain their own leadership on a hate platform.

Works well when your audience is captive as they are in most arab lands.

But the racist notion that arabs respect might is BS..

But the "hate" that is taught to young Arab children has been going on for an eternity.

And if "racist people are unworthy"......what does this say about Arabs? Examples of Arab intolerence towards the "infidel" are too numerous to document.

Racism is a grossly misused and poorly understood word. It's the "burn witch.....burn!" catch-phrase of modern times.

Any given 'race' on this planet can be held accountable......by its deeds, whether it's been a positive or negative contribution, on the behalf of humankind.

As for the statement that "Arabs respect might"

I think it's largely true. They are a 'people' with little exposure to the 'fruits of freedom' and the more complicated level of expectation, that a democratic society fosters.

The Arabs are a 'race' on the whole.....that must step forward. There is little in Arab lifetsyle or culture that is worth idealising.