Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten

I believe their hostility towards Isreal stems from what it perceives as genocide in Palestine. That and the fact that the Arab world generally sees Isreal as an artificially created state, subsidized heavily by the West. I'm not prepared to debate that particular topic, but it strikes me that people have been arbitrarily creating and dividing nations since the concept was first introduced. The key difference here being that what is now Isreal was previously occupied by an established community.