Blacknad wrote:
"However the current Middle East conflict with the West is more to do with Western interference in the Middle East esp. American. ... For example, the USA support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine."

Actually this is not true. There was a great paper published in Foreign Relations back in, I believe, the late 80s predicting this culture clash. If Israel had never existed the current situation would not be far different.

So now that you've agreed with everything Chaos said ... care to reread what you originally wrote?

DA Morgan