Okay, but the only reason why Israel is so advanced is because all of the people from 1947 - 60 are de facto European Jews, educated in European standards. Israel started out at a much brighter spot than the Arabs. And, ironically, them being so often at war, a small state versus the Arab world, has created a strong sense of philia among the citizens, whereas that hasn't happened in the Arabic world.
Yes, Historically low, not recently low. As a mountain starts with a lowly rise, so does a trend start with such humbleness.
Red herrings my ass. Weather or not that vast majority of westerners support it or not is irrelevant to the point. It exists with hardly any major pushback for what it deserves. Oh and I bet most people are still supportive of BLM despite the past year of "protesting".
There's plenty of pushback; you just have to bother to look for it. The reason it doesn't tend to make front page news is because it's an immensely marginal issue which affects a tiny number of people at worst, whereas the daily displays of barbarity which afflict the Middle East are both commonplace and systemic.
Your joking right?
Are you a fed by any chance? I assume you can't be one, since you're from 2018. That's way too long for feds to be active on the site.
If you're seriously comparing the recent racial unrest in America to the ongoing problems in the Middle East then you clearly have no perspective of the world around you.
I'm not attempting to marginalize anything; I simply have some perspective. It is estimated that the riots across America in the last year have led to 400 injuries and 25 deaths. The UN, meanwhile, estimates that upwards of 5000 women are murdered every single year across the Middle East in so-called "honor killings", which statistics indicate are supported by up to half the population in many of the countries concerned.
They're not "so-called" - they are honor killings, because societal stigma, circumvented by honor, are important parts of all of the Asian cultures. For their cultures it makes sense that honor must be upheld. For guilt-ridden Eurofags and their descendants who bend the knee to the minorities and tend to the needs of every fucking feminist maybe it doesn't.
Lol, your a joke. Obviously a war involving rockets and fighter jets and guided bombs is going to have a higher death toll. Of course.
If you truly wish to live in some backward theocratic dystopia then feel free to move to one, but most people in the civilized world have a healthy respect for civilization, and there are few places in the world where the dichotomy is more pronounced than it is between Israel and Gaza.
BLM and Antifa are mostly just kids who want to LARP as revolutionaries, with a lot of criminal opportunists hitched to the bandwagon. Hamas is a terrorist organization which seeks the destruction of Israel as it's stated goal.
Lmao, they are civilized, and have nearly 3000 years of civilized history over any European. And I wouldn't call them backward.
The definition of civilized is an advanced stage of social and cultural development, and the present-day Middle East is not more advanced than present-day Europe or Israel.
Democracy is just a form of government - it's not the end point or the mark of an advanced state. A state can be advanced without a democracy.
I would imagine so, seeing as they are developed states, while the rest of the world is still developing.
Well, yeah, you don't fucking see the USA threatening to invade Israel for developing capabilities to defend itself like it does to Iran, now do you?
democracy in and of itself is worthless if it doesn't achieve prosperity and a sustainable future for the people under it, which in current year it really doesn't. every western democracy is in decline, and in the process of getting gradually replaced and taken over by hostile foreigners. this is in stark contrast to undemocratic countries, many of which have a much more sustainable population development, and a good future outlook as a result.
Lol, why move to the middle east when I can move to any western nation have the same in a decade or two.
Both BLM and Antifa's stated goals are the destruction of the US and the establishment of a marxist utopia. Not that different from an Islamic theocracy in its brutality and ignorance. Kids my ass. The one that attack the ice facility was in his fifties. The one who murdered the proud boy was in his thirties or forties.
The trend of both BLM and Antifa is been toward greater and greater destruction and carnage. Just as Israel and Hamas go throw periods of open fighting to "peaceful distrust", so does antifa and blm. The only why you could have a point here is if the US has reached peak "fiery, but mostly peaceful protests". And given last year's performance, the evidence is clear it isn't.
Lol, god your a joke. BLM and Antifa both are committed and organized. They have multiple umbrella organizations trying to establish proper insurgent cells. Antifa has tried several times to establish "autonomous zones" which would function no different then Gaza does now. They would be the government and the law. They would seek to expand.
Lol, your a joke. You think a we have to be in the middle of a problem for us to be able to compare it to another. Anyone who saw last year and the response can see where its going. "Muh arrests are done!" Is such an idiotic point when one realizes the cops aren't arresting people in numbers anymore because prosecutors don't care to press charges. Portland is the perfect example of this. Antifa hasn't stopped with their "direct actions".
Except the data clearly shows that you're wrong, since democratic countries are statistically the wealthiest (by gross financial wealth per adult), the most stable, and the most free. The contrast between Israel and the Palestinian territories is by no means an exception to the data in this regard.
And a short person can still become a basketball player. The fact you're missing is that there is a strong correlation to the contrary, and the Middle East's lack of advancement is by no means limited to it's lack of democracy. You also have to factor in the problems of sectarianism, religious fanaticism, inept leadership, military incompetence, and the lack of free expression and women's rights, both of which have dire consequences for innovation and economic development.
It means that societies which emphasize education, critical thinking, and resourcefulness will invariably be better off than societies which discourage those things. As an example, Israel alone has produced six Nobel Prize winning scientists; the entire Arab world combined has produced just one.
No, I just think that you should broaden your perspective and realize that there are countries outside the US which easily rubbish the equivalence you're attempting to draw between the BLM protests and Islamist militia groups like Hamas, because right now you sound like an insular American who gets all of their information from American news outlets.
China, a despotic realm, had been the leading economic power for 1000 years before the Industrialization and creation of the British Empire. China has existed between 1900 and 2700 years, making it more stable than any other country currently existing, even Iran. Most of the world is now democratic, doesn't matter de facto or not, yet most of the world is poor.
From what I gather, you basically want every country to follow the Western model, a universalist model, that has proven to be a failure for all non Western countries who have adopted it.
retard metrics like wealth and freedom(*) are fucking worthless and irrelevant in the face of population decline and ethnic replacement. your very own people are being diminished day by day, your numbers are dwindling, hostile foreigners encroaching on your lands a little bit more with every passing day. you are facing the slow death of your people and your answer is "but muh gdp per capita though!" which is just laughable
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