# 'We love you, IDF,' say Arabs from across the Middle East **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 15, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091 "2015-05-15T05:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/1 "2015-05-15T05:09:09Z")
> **['We love you, IDF,' say Arabs from across the Middle East](https://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/We-love-you-IDF-say-Arabs-from-across-the-Middle-East-403055)** > > Israeli Arab veteran of IDF creates pro-Israel Facebook page that has attracted messages of peace and love from the most unlikely of places. An Arab-language Facebook page posted by an Israeli Arab citizen seeking to paint the IDF in a positive light has surprisingly attracted adoring feedback from youths across the Middle East who have responded with expressions of love and peace. … “Good evening. I am a young woman from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia,” one Facebook user is heard saying in a video sent to the site. “I am a member of one of the better-known tribes of the Hijaz, and I am showing you Darajeh Square, a famous landmark in Jeddah. I’d like to send a message of peace and love to Israel and its dear citizens. I know it is surprising that a Saudi Arabian citizen sends a message to the people of Israel, but it is a basic principle of democracy that everyone is free to voice an opinion. I hope the Arabs will be sensible like me and recognize the fact that Israel also has rights to the lands of Palestine.” … “I support the State of Israel, and their army and nation, but in our country we are not allowed [sic] to express our opinions or we will get killed by doing it,” wrote one user from Falluja, Iraq. “I hope there will be peace between our nations, we love Israel, their people, and it’s army.” The facebook page: [https://www.facebook.com/pages/צהל-بستاهل/167495746793566?sk=timeline](https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D7%A6%D7%94%D7%9C-%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%84/167495746793566?sk=timeline) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/2 "2015-05-15T08:56:15Z")
Because if there’s one thing I know in life, is that Facebook is an important tool for establishing what reality is. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/3 "2015-05-15T09:56:36Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Because if there’s one thing I know in life, is that Facebook is an important tool for establishing what reality is. I expect you might have meant this in a sarcastic way, but IMHO for many people Facebook IS an important tool for establishing what reality is. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/4 "2015-05-15T10:25:22Z")
Uh, yeah. That’s what I’m saying. Facebook just helpfully informed me this morning that 75% of children in a Mexican town who received vaccines are now dead or hospitalized. This is being covered up by the corporate controlled US media, so Facebook is the only way you can find out about how vaccines are killing children, and that many Arabs love the IDF. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/5 "2015-05-15T11:26:27Z")
If true for more than a tiny, tiny minority of Arabs, this is great. But I doubt it’s true for more than a very small number. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-love-you-idf-say-arabs-from-across-the-middle-east/720091/6 "2015-05-15T16:30:10Z")
Glurge that you agree with is still glurge.