Have you read Bernard Lewis's The Middle East, The Political Language of Islam, and What Went Wrong?, as well as Edward Said's Orientalism?

[MerakSahibi]

Bernard Lewis is known for advising George W. Bush and for reports he provided to the CIA, but he was also a highly influential scholar.

Edward Said, on the other hand, was his most prominent critic

Yes

No, but I'm familiar with them at a basic level

I've never heard of them before

[FreyaRed]

I've read books of advisers of US presidents. Brzezinski, Kissinger but some of them are idiots like Navaro who is economical adviser of Trump. No clue where this Lewis belongs to and I never read anything of him.
However Arabs in dominantly Islamic countries are hostile to each other and can't cooperate. That's why it's so easy for Israel to destabilize this region. In middle east there are barbarian rules. If you kill others, you're strong, If others kill you, you're weak, but if others kill you and you don't try to kill their soft targets, you're a disgrace.
Honestly this is a receipt for never ending war that last 4 thousand years like in Afghanistan which became Muslims 1400 years back, of course. XD

[MerakSahibi]

There is a saying among Arabs: “The Arabs have agreed not to agree.”

Rest assured, the prescription is more recent than that. Just a century ago, the Ottomans governed the region one way or another. In fact, during the late Ottoman period, investment in the Middle East—railways and so on—was arguably greater than in Anatolia, although the main purpose was to prevent the region from breaking away.

The borders of the Middle East were drawn by the British, practically with a ruler. There had never previously been states called Syria, Iraq, or Jordan in the modern sense. Later, Jews were settled in Palestine and demanded a nation-state there.

Today, the Kurds are being encouraged in a similar way, while the Druze are a separate issue altogether. Jews claim that the Maronites are descendants of the Phoenicians—while supposedly portraying the others as later-arriving barbarians—and are trying to divide Lebanon.

[Agape93]

Nope, couldn't give less than a shit what someone has to say about a group that deserves extermination.

[MerakSahibi]

I'm not kidding—you've lost your mind. At least read even the most hardline Orientalists; it might put some less romantic notions into your head. But the root of the problem is that you're simply ignorant

[Agape93]

Nope, it's not ignorance to recognize a threat group, a group who's hurt loved ones of someone i care for. If you people wanted me as an ally or neutral, you all should have played your cards very differently.

[MerakSahibi]

He thought the same way you do

[Agape93]

I dont care

[Abbycado]

Nope, never heard of it.

[strateguy632]

no it sounds boring a. f.