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Why should you care about regimes in the Middle East? The scourge of international terrorism and suicide bombings has reached far beyond the United States and Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy. The Middle East includes 7 out of 19 of the most repressive regimes in the world and their weapons of mass destruction. It is also the hotbed of Jihad (Holy War), an ideology of world domination. 5 out of the world's 7 state sponsors of terrorism and half of the world’s major terror groups are Arab and Iranian. The combination of these factors makes it more important than ever to be acquainted with the reality of the Middle East.
Terrorism is above all politically motivated targeting of civilians.
For example, the deliberate killings of Israeli civilians by Palestinian armed groups are both widespread and systematic, and are perpetrated as part of a publicly announced policy to target civilians.
Arab and Iranian dictators' propaganda is insidious: sponsors of terrorism establish "independent" human rights organizations, victims are turned into aggressors and savages, barbarians are painted as victims, imperialists and warmongers are declared moderates, defense is aggression, offense is defense, democrats are denounced as imperialists, dictators are lauded as democrats, and there are no problems that could not be resolved through the destruction of Israel, the Middle East’s sole democracy. The propaganda tactics deployed by Arab and Iranian regimes are as simple as they are cunning: diversion and deceit. The diversion is in the systematic changing of the subject from the real aim, which is oppression and embezzlement from their own people and even global Islamic tyranny, to issues that people in the democratic world care deeply about like freedom of expression, right of ownership or equality before the law. The deceit is in that all this crusading energy disappears once one leaves the borders of democratic states and enters Iran and the Arab world. Not only do Arab and Iranian dictators fail to accord Arab, Iranian and Muslim majorities in their states even a fraction of what they demand the democratic world including Israel accord its Arab, Iranian and Muslim minorities, they even incite against other people and support Islamic terrorism worldwide. In other words, Arab and Iranian dictators and their supporters hail democratic values only when it helps undermine democracy. Palestinian Authority TV Sermon, May 13, 2005: "Muslims Will Rule America, Britain ... and the Entire World; Israel is a Cancer; Jews are a Virus Resembling AIDS; Muslims Will Finish Them Off" | Transcript PALLYWOOD - "according to Palestinian sources" The first test of intentions is not what Arab and Iranian dictators say to the West, but what they say and do to the children, women, minorities and dissidents in their countries.
Because the same Arab and Iranian dictators oppress their fellow subjects, sponsor half of the world’s major terror groups and imperil the Middle East’s sole democracy. Democratically governed nations are more likely to secure the peace, deter aggression, expand open markets, promote economic development, protect Western citizens, combat international terrorism and crime, uphold human and worker rights, avoid humanitarian crises and refugee flows, improve the global environment, and protect human health. The mechanics of tyranny make Arab and Iranian dictators inherently belligerent.
The Israeli government is the only government in the Middle East that is elected by free citizens -- including 1.2 million Arabs and Muslims. Israel is the sole Middle East country with the rule of law (including an independent judiciary and state's monopoly to use force), freedom of speech, press and religion, property rights, minority rights, and the right to form voluntary organizations (especially political parties) etc. The enemies of Israel, by contrast, are dictatorships and state sponsored terrorist organizations. They do not recognize the individual rights of their own subjects, much less those of the citizens of Israel. They initiate force indiscriminately in order to retain and expand their power. Israel is the only country in the world which is regularly slated for extermination.
The
purpose of this website is
to provide links to information, predominantly from Arab, Iranian
and international sources, about the Middle-East = 10% of world
land area = 50%
of the world's major terror groups = 67%
of the world's state sponsors of terrorism = 22 Arab regimes,
Iran and Israel.
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