True, but remember Israel choose to put themselves in that situation by establishing their country there by force in 1948. If you go back further to the years after WW1 when control of the area passed from Turkish to the British administration, a census of the area showed a population of about � Million, of which 75% were Muslim and only 10% were Jewish. In the years that followed, especially after WW2, there was the mass Jewish immigration.
Early Jewish leaders also rejected various plans for a partitioned country, instead wanting a return to the boundaries of biblical Israel. It is therefore hardly surprising the whole area became a powder keg and remains so today.
I'm sorry Pete, we're not allowed to focus on that part of the story here in the States. Makes the Izzies look a little too much like Mexicans to suit our purposes, and it's bad for business.
