I'm always frustrated when people discuss the "causes" of Islamic extremists and leave out the most obvious cause: the creation of Israel after World War II, which displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinian arabs. Arabs have hated Jews ever since, and since we tend to support Israel at every turn, no matter how they treat their Arab citizens, we are hated, too.
Because the Arab population of Israel will surpass the Jewish population in coming decades, Israel will have to decide whether to become a democratic Arab country or a Jewish dictatorship along the lines of the old South Africa.
Now, before you jump to any conclusions, I'm not a Nazi sympathizer or even an anti-semite. I know and love several Jewish people now and as I grew up some of my buddies were Jewish. I was, as a Protestant boy, along with my Jewish friends, the minority in a largely Catholic neighborhood.
However, none of that changes the fact that the creation of Israel was one of the most monumental blulnders in modern history, showing (if I may blithely mix metaphors) that the road to Hell is paved with unintended consequences.
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