Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Most Likely Israel Regional War Scenario" video.

  1. HEY RYAN: If you can look it up back in 2012 (I think) Jon Stewart interviewed king Abdullah of Jordan on the Daily Show. It was during one of the negotiation attempts. It was simply an amazing interview for JS to get and its worth ANYONE's time to look up. I can't do it easily because I'm in Australia. During that interview Abdullah said (words to the effect) that if they didn't solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue at that time then it would be ANOTHER generation before we'd get another chance because you'd need new generations ON both sides to say they'd had enough. BUT TO YOUR POINT about the other Middle East regimes needing the Israeli-Palestinian to stay - Abdullah basically said that but in a slightly different context. Abdullah put it in terms of dealing with Al Qaeda. Because the Israeli-Palestinian issue was an international issue it could be used as a soap box by all the little antagonists. That enabled the Middle East Regimes to simply claim that their own internal issues were in fact international issues and as such they needed American Aid helping deal with them. Abdullah said that if you solve the Israeli-Palestinian issue then you take away all those soap boxes that people preach from. In doing that you force all the Middle Eastern regimes to deal with their own people and their issues instead of calling in the Americans because it was part of the War on Terror. Abdullah didn't explicitly say we'd be in the place we are now but he implied we'd be in a bad place one day. So your assessment isn't just right. Its spot on and lines up with what the King of Jordan said over a decade ago.
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