AR15000 wrote:
I am not a Zionist, but I do support Israel's right to exist. That said, the Israeli's are not saints and the Palestinians do have some legitimate grievances. For example, it's quite telling the Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other gulf states have shut out Syrian refugees. Effectively forcing them to seek asylum in Europe and in the mid 20th century, many Arab nations closed their borders to displaced Palestinians.
Believe me, I am
so not a fan of the Saudi government. Unfortunately this isn't talked about nearly as much as it should be, and I'm with you on this one, but that goes way beyond the scope of this thread.
AR15000 wrote:
Radical Islam, and particularly the kind of global Jihad you see with groups like ISIS and Al Qaida, is has
nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict, Barchan

It does, actually. Israel funded and continues to fund Al-Qaida and its various splinter groups, and they are funding Al-Qaida operations in Syria even to this day. Israel is funding Daesh (I refuse to call them ISIS because they are neither Islamic nor a state). I think it's clear that, while much of Islamic extremism can be traced back to Saudi militance, most of it can be attributed to Israeli tampering.