Re: What do you think about Middle Eastern relations?
Its not a question of the difference in aid between Israel and the arab states that causes islamic militants to hate the US. It is complicated, but a big part is that aid to Israel exists in the first place.
What are osama'a big complaints? US troops in ME/SA and Israel existing.
Most of ME diplomacy (or any diplomacy really) is $$. Aid packages are paramount because these nations are very, very poor. Iran is special because they have a ton of oil. Africa is not because it has, um, Africans.
if us cuts off aid to egypt then egypt will certainly take major notice. If mubarak didnt change things voluntarily he would certainly lose his means of keeping power fairly quickly.
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