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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
Actually Al-Jazeera is based in Qatar 
So much ignorance in this thread.
I love how people view the "Middle-East" as some sort of monolithic bloc the same way "Africa" is. And that it's in a continual state of war or conflict.
There are relatively peaceful states that have been at peace for decades such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait
There are those states affected by the so-called "Arab Spring" and it's resulting chaos which has only been going on the past 5-6 years or so: Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen etc
Really the only conflicts that have been "continuous" as in over 20+ years have been the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan |
yea but all those places have piss poor humans right records, which is why people think of the ME as a monolithic bloc.
hmm...i wonder why people think of the ME of a monolithic bloc, maybe its because their gov't tries to force everyone to subscribe to the same brand of religious thought.