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Hate's Inevitable Harvest: Sources of and Solutions for Middle East Hatred
Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS
Author: Don Losman
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/2006
Size: 8,229 Words, 53,018 Characters

Middle East instabilities have clearly been the major driving force for global terrorism. While it is essential to destroy both the terrorists and their organizations, just killing these snakes is insufficient, because the Middle East swamps will continue to generate more.

In the wake of Yasser Arafat's demise, the Gaza withdrawal, and a new Iraqi constitution, new initiatives and democratic rituals are blossoming, but these efforts will fare no better than past ones unless the most basic source of enduring tensions is addressed. Plainly and simply, the issue is hate, a trait so repugnant to the contemporary Western psyche that it is not given center stage in our diplomacy and is bypassed in virtually all public discussions. Only by draining the swamps of hate will peace and economic d...


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... Hatred Pulls Apart Iraq's Mixed Towns," detailing hate's devastating and divisive results. If the media can get it, so can the U.S. government.

Hate propagation in the Middle East has been willfully turned on, and then takes a life of its own. It is time to permanently turn it off, and that should be the prime and very visible goal of U.S. Middle East policy. Everything else is secondary.



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