have matthew feeney he's an assistant editor at reason twenty four seven and in london we crossed to sabah he is the president of arab lawyers association in the u.k. our gentleman cross-talk rose and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want michael can you just give us a broad stroke history of what's happened to the christians in the middle east over the last century will focus the last ten years later go ahead. well i think the christians generally have been big in decline at one time they were particularly in lebanon for example they were the majority today they are not only a minority they are also very fractured and i think that we see that christians generally are we've seen it also in iraq where they they've had a tremendous exit over over a period of time due to war and do all of the conditions that you mentioned through outside meddling in internal strife and also the rise of the of solace is and one hobby ism that is taking on a new bent and has begun to spread all over the middle east this is put tremendous fear into the christians we've seen it with the coptic such

ok matthew before we went to the break we heard from sabah a very mixed and complicated relationship the united states has with regimes in the middle east you want to respond go ahead. i just wanted to say that the complicated relationship that we have of those countries but also america's own hypocrisy with civil liberties particularly regarding guantanamo bay and a war on terror is well documented but i think it's worth reminding that we're speaking about religious minorities and in the united states the protections of minority religious rights is better than any country in the middle east i think that's worth taking account of you know if we really want to have a discussion please don't compare the usa to the middle east usa is the superpower . third world country sure better that them that doesn't make you good. you know i think just because you're not perfect doesn't mean that criticism can be leveled i wasn't trying to save you know the united states was a perfect country but to say that because the united states doesn't have a perfect civil liberties record and therefore shoul

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al-sabah of and, according to some sources but i was not able to verify, so i will put it out there, even alkyne that. so support for terrorist groups included and includes an goes on right now arms sales, training, and construction of facilities. an ad like to give you one example of that talking about has blocked. they sell arms to hezbollah through the rtc army, through syria, and they sell arms to them directly. dougie examples of all three of those in the chapter in the book they also train those guys according to some reports. about 100 commanders went back to north korea in 2007 after the war with the israeli defense forces and were trained by the recall on bureau in north korea. for those of you who don't know, the reid, bureau is the lead on -- one of the elite our's of the special operations forces. and they do construction of facilities for these guys. for example. they built nasa -- massive miles long underground facilities that made it very difficult for the israelis to get at them during the 2006 war. important to note that this goes on today under kim jong-un. why did