Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "PANEL: WHAT IS THE WEST? | Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, John Anderson, Os Guinness" video.

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  2. After reading her book "Infidel" it is easy to understand that after the terrible things that happened to her in childhood, and as an adult, Ayaan is very bitter towards Islam. But there are many ways of perceiving ... and to balance out Ayaan's bitterness I suggest we should pay attention to the words of this Jewish woman, who has a different point of view concerning problems in the Middle East. From the book … Sipping from the Nile … My exodus from Egypt … author … Jean Naggar “Despite that understanding that her efforts could permanently undermine the way of life she had always known, Auntie Helen, accompanied by her distinctive cane, traveled alone again and again to Suez and Ismailia after the end of the Second World War to supervise and expedite the loading of Jews emigrating to Palestine onto makeshift boats in the dead of night. Certainly, the formation of the State of Israel changed the dynamic between Arab and Jew in the Middle East. It became a polarizing magnet, leading to huge rifts in the standing social structure, cutting through generations of tradition and peaceable interaction. While most Jews world-wide rejoiced that Jews would at last have a homeland, those in Arab countries cast a wary eye at the chasm that was opening beside them, threatening irrevocably their safety and their way of life. While I thought of my aunt as a fascinating person, I had no concept of the seismic shift that her activities were helping to produce in the internal psychological geography of the Arab countries, which were never again to accept their Jewish neighbors as brothers. With the creation of the State of Israel, militant Islam was granted a voice and a cause.”
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