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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
In the current politics of the region, from a Western view, Israel is a stabilising force (up to a point, though Israel has been understandably provoked into problematic actions lately) and Iran is the destabilising force. There's a reason why even Saudi Arabia has become an informal ally of Israel against the strategic enemy Iran, while Egypt and Jordan remain formal (if presently somewhat annoyed) allies. Palestinian Sunni groups supping with the predatory Shia mullahs of Iran may have forgotten to bring the proverbially necessary long spoon.
Look at the regimes Iran touches, and imagine wanting to be a part of that "Axis"
Lebanon is a failed state, and Hezbollah ruins everything it touches
Assad's murderous regime in Syria (if you want to talk genocide)
The Houthis who want death to everyone
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and those guys, who are about as radical as they get
That's just a who's who list of dudes you want no part of, all the way to Khomeini, whose own people admonish as he black bags them.
It's not ambiguous, those groups only create poverty, ruin, and war. There's no upside. The progressive Islamic countries are leaps and bounds more accepting, prosperous, welcoming, etc.
