posted on Nov, 11 2005 @ 07:10 AM
no-one, up til now, has brought up the viewpoints of the esteemed
Sir John Glubb, aka Glubb Pasha, concerning Arabs....
-snip from wikipedia-
"We have given them self government for which they are totally unsuited.
They veer towards dictatorship. Democratic institutions are promptly twisted into engines of intrigue- - thus the same bunch crop up after each coup
in a different guise, until disposed of by assassination"...
-snip from www.highbeam.com-
"Palestinian Arabs have developed a culture of resistance to the state of Israel not only because the latter was recognized as a state in 1948
but also as a reaction to Israeli colonization in Palestine, the loss of Palestinian land to Israel and a lack of any channel to peacefully state
their claims and obtain justice"
..............................
perhaps the writers on the StarTrek series fashioned their
"Klingons" after the characterization of certain people made by Sir John Glubb.
then, because the culture of coups, intrigues, assassinations is the driving force of life in that culture, unsuited, for democratic politics...
the events and outcomes cited in the 2nd paragraph
-snip from www.highbeam.com-
became the reality today's world has to deal with.