[N8 v2.0]

Terrorists exist world wide and even if Israel was destroyed, ME terrorism would continue to flourish.

Will that stop the ME terrorists or can we stop really terrorism at all?

 

[LordOpie]

I thought Bin Laden worked for the CIA in some way, they made him some huge promises that they didn't keep, and he's just super pissed at US.

 

[Toshi]

al qaeda has a lot of bones to pick, and it's not just israel that angers them.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2536

 

[MikeD]

Ironically, if Israel didn't exist anymore, the US might feel compelled to have a stronger influence/placement of military forces in the middle east, which would make things worse.

But yeah, if the US let Israel be overrun, it would remove a major source of anger in the middle east. Unfortunately, it might also trigger WWIII...and it wouldn't, by itself, completely end the anger many feel towards the US.

Opie, Bin Laden didn't work for the CIA, really, but he accepted help from the US through the CIA and probably a few other outlets...he's not pissed because of anything that went wrong in that relationship, really, although he and a lot of other Muslims see that help as proof of the US's manipulative nature and insincerity...as in, we'd do anything to get at our enemies (at the time, the Soviets), and our 'alliances' are just arrangements of convenience, in which we'd gladly sell out our former friends to our gain.

That amuses me, because Middle Eastern politics are pretty shady and capricious, too...