[Ottawa Citizen-Canada] Leonard Stern - For decades Muslim dictators, monarchs and presidents-for-life have postponed democratization on the grounds that they are at war against the Zionist imperialists. Obama himself rebuked illiberal Arab governments for using the conflict with Israel as a means to distract from their own internal dysfunctions. However, the dysfunctions that have retarded progress in the Arab-Muslim world exist independent of Israel. Making the Middle East Judenrein will not bring peace, order and good government to the Arab-Muslim world. If anything, eliminating the lone outpost of modernity would make the region even more hopeless.
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