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I don't think many people give a crap if I'm honest, at least in Europe. I'll be honest and say I don't. The whole Middle East has done a lot of repetitional damage to itself over the last 20 years by bringing its politics to us in Europe in the form of killing citizens. When it starts using those tactics in home territories against allies we're insensitive to their position.

As much as this sucks, Yemen is another Middle East shit show. And it's not a shit show we should expend anything further on other than protecting our shipping lanes.

I wish it could have been better but the damage is done. I'd rather everyone just stopped being nut jobs and blowing each other up respectively. And I don't think we should get involved in Middle Eastern politics, just distance ourselves from it.

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Man, if the west completely left the middle east, almost all of the "shit shows" wouldn't exist.

The occupation wouldn't exist, the zombie state in Iraq wouldn't exist, and much more. Please just leave it alone!

> The occupation wouldn't exist,

If you meant the Israeli occupation, you're wrong. Israel isn't "The West" and isn't able "to leave" in the same way that e.g. the US could leave Afghanistan. This is true both in terms of Israelis having mostly nowhere else to go, and also in that the majority of Israelis aren't Westerners in the first place.

> If you meant the Israeli occupation, you're wrong. Israel isn't "The West" and isn't able "to leave"

It won't leave it will just be defeated.

> the majority of Israelis aren't Westerners in the first place.

Not true, especially when taking into account that it's the "country" with the highest dual citizenship percentage in the world.

Israel has a population of roughly 9.3MM people.

Of those, a little over 2.0MM are Israeli Arabs. Arabs are the largest ethnic minority in Israel.

Among Israeli Jewish people, over half are Mizrahi. They're the former Jewish residents of Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and other MENA countries.

It is not possible that the majority of Israelis are westerners; you can't possibly make those numbers work. It would be like trying to claim the majority of Americans are Irish.

Not sure why you're putting the word country in quotes - it is a country.

As for dual citizenship, it might be large, but it's still estimated at only 10% if the population. And that includes lots of people with citizenship in countries that they have no connection to at all.

> It won't leave it will just be defeated.

They have nukes. They aren't going away. Ever.

And in some absurd world where their existence actually is threatened, they'd take out the countries trying to destroy them along with them.

Oh completely. I'm also 100% fed up of my tax money being spent on stupid attempts to unfuck it.

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