J Croft, among the many reasons I am backing off a lot of those issues and calling it a "no dog in this fight program". One of the big worries a lot of people have on several sides of the issue is whether or not it would have any spillover here, and personally, from studying some incidents and events in Michigan, I think not only has it had some spillover, but the government is covering that up too (go figure).

I don't know if anyone here has actually dealt with Jews or Arabs on a regular basis, but the idea of them not getting along is a no-brainer.

The US has been trying hard to make friends in the Middle East for decades, and it has generally turned out miserably. Every time we really throw down on behalf of a group of "friends" over there, they practically jump over themselves to stab us in the back, with a few notable exceptions like the Kuwaitis.

What complicates the whole Gaza thing is the infighting on both major sides is severe. In fact, I think a big part of the IDF reservist activation was to get the individual troops less able to engage in the internal skirmishes they have been threatening to do for nearly a decade now. You have high unemployment among their youth, and several of the high profile youth were at the very founding of the Anonymous movement which is in direct opposition to the criminal banksters, who are also mostly Jewish but usually claim everything is a Masonic/Vatican conspiracy.