When will Israel ever be an issue?

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How many Israel threads have you made this weekend alone?

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Echoing that support for Palestinians is likely at least marginally higher than support for the PA (the PA is a pretty depressing institution)

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Israel is a great country, I don't want it to ever become an issue.

I'll echo this, but I'll add the qualifier 'unless it becomes radically different than it is now.'\

You are aware that Israel violates international law, right?

I've always seen you as a hardcore national sovereignty type.  When did you start caring (or recognizing the legitimacy of) "international law?"

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Also one that is perpertrated by people who are mainly on the left-wing of politics, like Jimmy Carter (whose foreign policy based upon "human rights" allowed for the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomenei, Robert Mugabe and the Sandinistas).

Because Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Ian Smith, and Anastasio Somoza were such better options than those three.  Right.

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(whose foreign policy based upon "human rights" allowed for the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomenei, Robert Mugabe and the Sandinistas).

I don't know about the others, but I think it was previous presidents' foreign policies that led to Ayatollah Khomenei.

Blaming Khomeini's rise on Operation AJAX is a gross oversimplification and a clear example of Anglo/US-centric historicization that completely ignores Iranian domestic politics and political developments except when they can be contextualized as part of the Cold War.

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Ernest: he could also dye his skin to help us with our racial disparity.