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Israel Quotes by Samuel P. Huntington

17 Israel quotes by Samuel P. Huntington

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Here you’ll find Samuel P. Huntington’s take on Israel, a set of 17 observations that cut to the heart of its geopolitical pulse. His analytical voice offers a concise yet sharp viewpoint, useful for anyone wanting a quick scholarly glimpse into the nation’s complexities.

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Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

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Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.

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The biggest difference as far as Muslims in Europe and America are concerned is that the number of Muslims in America is…

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Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

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America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

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I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think…

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Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred…

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Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem.…

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Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The…

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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Muslim or at least Arab countries developing some form of organization comparable to the European…

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I don't think that the Israeli lobby is unique. It may differ from the others in the extent by which it is…

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Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither…

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People everywhere talk about Islam and the West. Presumably that has some relationship to reality, that these are entities that have some…

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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,…

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The colonial experience all Muslim countrieswent through may be a factor in the fight against Western domination, British, French or whatever. They…

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“Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody…

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What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other…

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“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such attitudes for…

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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated…

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These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from…

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Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and…

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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

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Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems…

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Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of…

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America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.

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Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism.

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Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

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Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.

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Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of…

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What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There…

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Obviously there are divisions within the West and divisions within Islam - there are different sects, different communities, different countries. So neither one is…

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