Another terrorist attack in France

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(07-15-2016, 02:08 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Don't forget ending all aid to Israel.

You must be in favor of that also, right?

I'm not sure that the Israel issues play so much of a part in the conflict between the West and radical Islam anymore. During the past four or five decades, they surely did and are part of the reason we got to this place. But we have a new history of relations since 9/11 that supersedes that old history: the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the Arab Spring, etc. I believe we could cut off aid to Israel today, and the war radical Islam seeks to wage against the West would continue unabated. 

The fact is that most Muslims in the world really aren't that concerned about the plight of the Palestinians. Some Muslim nations have even used them as pawns in their own power struggles.