Resolved: Current U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East undermines our national security

We believe thta the following resolution is false: Current U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East threatens our national security. The US currently fasces many naitonal security threats form the MIddle East, however, none of these are caused by currentl US foreign policy. They are caused by U.S. foeign policy in teh Middle East for the several decades' of support for Israel. As a result, the inherent distrust and hate that Islamic Middle East countries are not cause by current policies, adn nothing we can do can change the way that they feel. This is especially true because the media sources in other countries arfe biased toward the U.S. and the U.S. cannot combat this. Threfore, we do face many national security threats, but the Pro side will be unable to link them to current U.S. foreign policy or show that U.S. foreign policy could be changed to solve the national security threats. 1: The US is distrusted by Middle East countries; and that distrust is shred globally(Julian Borger and Tom Clark of the Guardian write on September 11, 2012.): American influence on the world stage is being sapped by widespread distrust of US intentions, not just in the Middle East and south Asia but also among traditional European allies, according to a survey of global opinions. Suspicion of America outweighed faith in its good intentions by large margins in the Arab world and Pakistan, and even its heavyweight European ally Germany was more sceptical than trusting, a YouGov survey found. British and French opinion was more positive but still deeply divided. Negative Arab and Pakistani perceptions of America as overweening and untrustworthy clearly pose a daunting foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration. The fact that 78% of Pakistanis questioned by YouGov said they did not trust America to act responsibly underlines Washington's serious lack of soft power in the region as it attempts to extricate itself form Afghanistan. 2a: The Jews and Arabs hate each other; this is a result of thousands of years of fighting each other. There is noone policy taht the US can have that will undo thousands of years of history: Zvi Bar'el, writes an article poignantly remarks on the current attitude of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East in his article entitled "A good Jew hates Arabs" from August 2012 states: Israeli " literature" promoting hate of Arabs predates the occupation. The children's book series "Danidin" by Shraga Gafni is full of expressions and illustrations that laid excellent infrastucture for Arab-hatred. The "Mikraot Yisreal" (Isreali Readers) series, which helped educate hundreds of thousand of Israeli children, is striking in terms of the "incitememtn" concealed within it. Similar books published in the Palestinian Authority keep those who monitor Palestintian incitement very busy. But ther isn't really a need to list all the recipes for Arab-hatred that have been fed to us, and which we developed on our own, in order to come up with a defense for those criminals in Juerusalem, whose " only crime" was to do what Israeli pedagogy and the "Death-to-Arabs" ethos directed them to do. This is an ethos that will continue to be an integral part of the Israeli-Jewish national identity, even if the occupation were to end tomorrow. Because "Deathe to the Arabs" isn't an exspression of "routine" hatred of those who are different, or the loathsome slogan of some "price tag" gang. It does not resemble the xenophobia or the fear of Muslims that chracterizes European racism. Hatred of Arabs is part of the test of loyalty and identity that the state gives its Jewish citizens. A good JEw hates Arabs. A loyal Israeli will leave an Arab to die, because "He's and Arab." And someone who isn't like that, as we know, "sleeps with Arabs." 3:The Israel- Palestinian conflict is a national security threat to the US.:(Bruce Riedel, Frank Anderson, Philip Wilcox, Brian Katulis, argue in an article entitled Israeli-Palestinian Peace: What is the US national security interst? How can it be achieved? Middle East Foreign Policy COuncil, on January 20, 2011: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a national security threat to America. Indeed, American lives are being lost today because of th eperpetuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A peace argreement is a, if not the, key to achieving most of our goals in the greater Middle East. It is not the solution to everything; it is not a panacea. But that is an unrealistic standar. "Solving the Arab-Israeli conflict won't solve every problem between Morocco and Bangladesh" is, frankly, a not so smart reason not to try to move ahead and sovle it. This is a false issue, a red herring, if I've ever seen one. The reasons why this conflict is a threat tto the United States are multiple. I'll start with a very simple one. If you believe that Isreal is antional secruitly interest of the United States and an ally and partner of America, as every American president since Harry Truman has affirmed, then a conflit that threatens Israelis every day must be a threat to the national security intersts of the United States as well. Because the US cannot solve the underlying source of hatred between Jews and Arabs in the MIddle East, current US foreign Policy is not a responsible for undermining our naitonal security. Therefore, the resolution is false.