Originally Posted by Mutt

Blaming Israel for the mess in the Middle East is like blaming a child for the breakdown of a marriage.

You could nuke Israel out of existence and not a thing would be different in the ME, there'd be no country of Palestine, they had centuries to establish one before Jews began returning to the ME in the late 19th century. Why was that? Because the ethno-cultural identity of a 'Palestinian' didn't exist!!!

The ME is comprised of mentally ill religious nuts and should be shunned and ignored, which they would be if not for oil. The real solution is for the world powers to agree that the ME is a cancer that will destroy the entire world if radical treatment isn't undertaken. Seize the oil fields, disarm the ME completely, let them kill each other with sticks and stones -which they will do. There is no solution to the problems of the ME, you can't talk sense to crazy people. Hatred is in their genes.

Anti-Semites and simple idiots distract themselves with Israel.

I won't argue though that Israel doesn't have the capability or motivation to help Arabs kill each other.