African Jews are 2% of overall population
there used to be fault lines between Ashenkazi and Sephardic Jews in the 1980s. I am not sure of the current status. In any case Jews do not have any special privileges compared to other Jews in Israel. It is a whole different story in Pakistan where...
A European Jew is not going to be mistreated by Israeli state. Is a Indo-Iranic Pakistani going to be treated fairly by Pakistani state ?
India's image is positive compared to Pakistan. Is it positive compared to Italy. Nope.
For starters outsiders do not deal with all of India. They deal...
Why does anything have to be controlled ?
Who decides what is controlled ?
Is something is controlled who is the controller ?
Who decides who is the controller ?
Why do countries have to have enemies ?
When have enemies decided the narratives of their opponents ?
It goes back to the...
There are 150,000 Ethiopian Jews who are 3% of Jewish population. There are two traditional divides among Jews - Ashenkazi and Sephardic. Added Russian Jews to the mix. They aspire to the same things. All of them serve in the Israeli army. All of them participate in the political process. There...
Israel is a cohesive society built on foundations at least for the Jewish population and united by existential external threats. The Israeli state is well run. The Israeli population is extremely well educated.
Pakistan is a feudal society with multiple ethnic groups - each with differing...
It is matter of terminology. Domestic narrative has to jive in with what it is being internally projected. Part of projection is reality. Part of it is aspirational and image. They need to be somewhat in sync. Or least they cannot be too many contradictions.
Bangladesh has lot more to do to change its image. They do not have a negative image. The first thing to do when you are in trouble is to stop digging a deeper hole
You made my point. Pakistan does not have an image issue. Your needs & wants are not in line with Western interests.
Modi never had an image issue. Tell us anyone outside the US State Department in the corridors of power in Washington who cared about Modi in 2005. Modi does not represent...
Pakistanis always think their problem is their image. I have tried pointing out to people no amount of advertising will work in the long run if the underlying product is rotten
It takes two to tango. If someone received a bribe someone paid a bribe
One of the days the CCP will wise up and they are going to put all their transactions on an open website and leave corrupt elites in Pakistan & Africa out to dry
Blame China too. They play along with corrupt elites
Well China encourages this nonsense by insisting normal commercial transactions be kept state secrets