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Originally Posted by opendoor
No one cares about the Ottoman Empire because they haven't had control over the area in over 100 years. If the US stopped intervening in the area so much and didn't blindly support Israel's every action, then eventually people wouldn't care much about past US actions there either.
Like, the reason people still talk about US interventions from 70 years ago in the Middle East is because they're still doing the same thing, largely in response to the side effects of their prior destabilization. Whereas in places like South American and Africa, that has been scaled back a lot post-Cold War, so it's not something that gets as much attention anymore (at least until Trump invaded Venezuela).
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It's not like it's ancient history though. Within my lifetime, l had living relatives that were born in the Ottoman Empire and lived under Turkish colonial rule, and those scars matter. They had institutions that would make North American colonialism seem humane in comparison.
When people talk about Israeli relationships with their neighbours and the creation of post-colonial states in the region that contribute to the complicated politics today, it's lazy to just say, well the problem is Israel and the West as if it just materialized out of a vacuum.