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Originally Posted by dlishsguy
a little over 57 years ago, i do remember the arabs and jews living together in harmony in a place called palestine, until the colonialists came through and divided the people and religions.
the arabs would rather live with the jews and have been for many centuries, and in relative harmony at that. but for an outside power to come in, support another race though monetary and military means, no wonder the arabs turned on their cousins. its this meddling in middle east affairs that ive been saying that turn ordinary people into terrorists. all they need is an excuse, and the west provides this to them.
obviously this is also the case in iraq, where the islamists needed an excuse to start a holy war, and bush and rummy gave them the green light.
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Uh, no. Palestine was controlled by Britain for many years before Israel came into existence. Relations between Jews and Palestinians and the British weren't great, all the way around. In fact, they were downright awful.
And I find it difficult to believe that West + "meddling in middle eastern affairs" = terrorists. Islamic terrorism is vastly more complicated than that. Believe me - I think that pretty much everything Bush has done has worsened the situation - but Osama and many Islamic terrorists are just as interested in overthrowing what they perceive as illegitimate regimes in the Middle East, such as the Saudi regime.