This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: We Arabs Keep Killing Those Who Tell Us Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By An Arab Who Doesn’t Want To Get Killed For Saying This

Why do we Arabs keep shooting ourselves in the foot? Is it pathological? Why does nothing we achieve have any lasting value? I don’t know about you, but the way in which we, collectively, squander our opportunities makes me think it better that we not be given those opportunities. We will continue to waste them, and sow further destruction and shame. We cannot have nice things because we commit horrible sins with nice things. But don’t let any Arab in power hear you say that, or you’re dead.

We blame everyone but ourselves, as if there’s some vast conspiracy to keep us down. It’s very comforting to believe that. Convenient. It’s not our fault, so we don’t need to change anything. Certainly not the corrupt kleptocracies that lead us, no – better look elsewhere, you seditious crypto-Zionist. Even when we do get nice things, our “leaders” take them for themselves.

You think I’m going to tell you who I am so you can kill me too? Think again. Or just think. I know it’s a daunting challenge, this thinking thing, but you might want to give it a try. You might even like it! You might even conclude that the propaganda your leaders have been shoving down your throat for generations has only a passing resemblance to reality, and resolve to chuck them both. Or you might decide that’s too scary a prospect, and react violently to anyone who mentions it, which is why I’m not telling you who I am.

Remember when the hated Zionist Entity was driven from the Gaza Strip in humiliation, and even dismantled its settlements on the way out? Sure you do! You probably remember that as a moment of triumph of Palestine and Arabs everywhere. You might even remember the scenes of joyous Gazans storming the greenhouses attached to those settlements and tearing them apart, those hated symbols of Jewish presence that the Zionists did not take with them when they fled. Except that those greenhouses were kept there so Gazans could continue to work in them and make a living. Better to live off UN welfare and remain in the shame of economic dependence than to sustain ourselves if the latter means seeing evidence of Jews! But woe betide anyone who criticizes the crippling honor-shame culture we nurture! This is why we can’t have nice things.

But that was hardly the first or biggest example of the phenomenon. There could have been a state of Palestine in 1947, or several other points in the last seventy years. There could have been prosperous societies throughout the region. But we’d rather wallow in zero-sum victimhood and perpetuate our lack of agency than take responsibility and actually build something besides attack tunnels and monuments to terrorism. Then kill anyone who points out the stupidity behind such choices. The suicide bombing that has become our calling card fits perfectly into that Weltanschauung.

On the plus side, we’ll never have to struggle with the maintenance costs.

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