[ingeborg]

Let's just say that the Israelis are forced to leave their country and Palestine is set up. That state would soon become an enormous liability for Cairo, Damascus, and Amman, Riyadh, and Bagdad. They would have to destroy it before it destroyed them. For the next step in the dream, is to settle old scores in a big way. The land is cursed.

[livius]

That [Palestinian] state would soon become an enormous liability for Cairo, Damascus, and Amman, Riyadh, and Bagdad..

Noe that (to my knowledge) none of these states will even accept "Palestinians" as refugees. This is an artificially created problem that is meant to give Islamic fundamentalists a rallying point.

I think one does have to admit that Israel hasn't always been blameless - remember, there was much terrorist activity conducted by Zionists (primarily European leftists) against the British, such as the bombing of the King David Hotel.

But there's no excuse to extend this, and whether the Muslims like it or not, the State of Israel is a fact of life. Deal with it - but Islam can never deal with anything it cannot control.