Reply #25: Caring about the Middle East, Visual Art , and lots of other stuff

[Boojatta]

the Israel-Palestine conflict is the focal point of attention for virtually anyone who cares about the Mideast.

Unless I am mistaken, art was stolen from at least one museum in Iraq as a consequence of inadequate provision of security by some person(s) in control of the US military.

If a US military commander had been personally interested in art and antiquities from the Middle East and had taken action and prevented the theft, then might that military commander nevertheless be excluded from a list of people that includes "virtually everyone who cares about the Mideast"?

Consider people who have a serious interest in some or all of the following: languages of the Middle East, law in the Middle East, sociology of the Middle East, epidemiology of the Middle East, religion in the Middle East, music of the Middle East, history of the Middle East, archaeology of the Middle East.

If the Israel-Palestine conflict is not the focal point of attention for some of those people, then are they not included in a list of people that includes "virtually everyone who cares about the Mideast"?