Middle East - Why they hate us.

The promise of reconciliation with Iran | Al Jazeera America:

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"Being pessimistic about prospects for peace in the Middle East has always been easy. Never in the last half-century, however, has violent turmoil there been so widespread. An astonishingly brutal civil war is consuming Syria. Attempts to consolidate democracy in Iraq, Libya and Egypt have given way to bloody repression and anarchy. Yemen is collapsing amid surging militancy and U.S. drone strikes. Threats of sectarian conflict hang over Lebanon. Tensions between Israel and Palestinians remain high.  

There is one startling exception to this bleak panorama: Iran. Often portrayed in the West as a rogue state where seething dissent is brutally repressed, Iran is in fact remarkably stable. It could even become a stabilizing factor in the Middle East -- if the United States would allow it"

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"Being pessimistic about prospects for peace in the Middle East has always been easy. Never in the last half-century, however, has violent turmoil there been so widespread."

I wonder why?

"An astonishingly brutal civil war is consuming Syria."

With Rebel factions supported by the US and Israeli along with the more despotic Arab regimes.

"Attempts to consolidate democracy in Iraq, Libya and Egypt have given way to bloody repression and anarchy." 

Again, with interference from the US, Israel and their friends.

"Yemen is collapsing amid surging militancy and U.S. drone strikes." 

US drone strikes?

"Threats of sectarian conflict hang over Lebanon. "

Religious strife plus Israel has made war on Lebanon more than once in the last 30 years.

"Tensions between Israel and Palestinians remain high."  

Israel still stealing Palestinian land while building an apartheid state. The US and Israel overthrew a democratically elected Palestinian government a few years back.

"There is one startling exception to this bleak panorama: Iran. Often portrayed in the West as a rogue state where seething dissent is brutally repressed, Iran is in fact remarkably stable. It could even become a stabilizing factor in the Middle East -- if the United States would allow it"

Why would they hate us?


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