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To: Frank_Discussion

I agree

However, given the reaction in the Arab press in the region, it seems to me Iran's neighbors are becoming more and more concerned for their own security.


61 posted on 05/09/2006 1:25:20 PM PDT by be4everfree
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To: be4everfree
However, given the reaction in the Arab press in the region, it seems to me Iran's neighbors are becoming more and more concerned for their own security.

It's no secret that the Iranians ("Persians"/"Aryans") look down their noses at "The Arabs" and consider them second (or third) class human beings.

If you want to drive an Iranian nuts, casually refer to him -- or, to Iranians in general -- as "Arabs". You will get an instant and very edgy tongue-lashing lecture on how, "We are NOT Arabs!" To get the same reaction out of an Arab, compare him to a dog. That is how intense is the enmity between the Iranians and the Arabs.

This of course puts the Iranians into a massive state of cognitive dissonance, since their religion -- a religion requiring absolute fanaticism -- is not only based on an Arab "prophet", but, its "holy books" are written in the "holy" language of Arabic!

They are obligated to embrace that which they despise, and hold in abject contempt.

I'm sure the CIA has some high-horsepower shrinks working on various angles to capitalize on this situation.

But, I digress.

As I said, it's no secret. In practice, what that means in this context is that the Arabs are well-aware of it.

The contempt the Arabs hold for the Palestinians (which is palpable) is matched by the contempt the Iranians hold for the Arabs. The Arabs thus have a benchmark to use to know exactly where they stand in the equation. They know what it means to be considered to be "as the Palestinians" by the Iranians.

And thus, a nuclear-armed Iran is perceived as something that will be a very real threat to their continued existence!

If things get bad enough, don't be surprised to see the Arabs (speaking of the putatively "sane" regimes, i.e., Saudi, Kuwait, Jordan, etc.) sucking up to Israel, making nice-nice, trying to get in under the unbrella as it were. Agitprop aside, they know they have nothing to fear from Israel (presuming they don't go all stupid and attack Israel).

They have no such assurances insofar as Iran is concerned.

221 posted on 05/11/2006 10:57:22 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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