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There is a saying in the Middle East which holds true.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend...”

You have a choice in terms of support:

1) Secularist, dictatorial, cruel, bloody rulers who kill everything and everybody in sight.
2) Religious, dictatorial, cruel, bloody rulers who kill everything and everybody in sight.

A good example of this process is what happened in the Gaza strip, 1992-present).

The PLO (FATAH branch - Arafart) was invited in to rule there in 1992-93 Oslo “Peace” Accords.
The PLO is a secular, was communist or socialist revolutionary group of mass murderers who promised Clinton and Rabin that they would behave...just give me land.

Once in a while Arafart gave many different groups (both secular and religious including HAMAS) a free hand at launching Kassam missiles into Israeli civilian population centers. When asked to stop, Arafart would say, “It's not my FATAH people, it's other groups (like HAMAS) that I am having a hard time controlling send me more guns, money and training.

Eventually the religious HAMAS movement won an election in Gaza and violently ejected the secular PLO (throwing some of them alive off rooftops).

Now HAMAS is in power there, ruling with an iron fist, once in a while missiles are fired into Israeli population centers. When asked why, they reply, “...it's not us, it is the [more extreme] Salafists. It's not our people...

So, eventually once HAMAS is toppled and the Salafists take over and the eventual missiles fired from Gaza land in Israeli towns and villages, they will be asked, “Salafists, what's going on”? They will then reply, “It's not us, it's the blah-blah-blahs.

So, who ever you support in the Middle East, except old reliable and consistent Israel, you lose. The US put all it's resources into one Arab country after another (including Iran which is Persian). They all eventually collapsed leaving the US with fewer and fewer options. This then begs the question, Why keep investing in these scumbags, give Israel (which has little oil but lots of natural gas now) a free hand to finally win.