why US structures were targeted and not any structure in the UK, Russia or the EU?
You ought to be aware that Al Qaida and their allies have attempted numerous terror attacks - some successful, some foiled-in Europe, Russia, India, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
in support of Jewish causes - the "Jews are our misfortune" claim.
Here's a post documenting the stated greivances of Al Qaida against America - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is only one of three complaints given:
Message 16847998
Although the Israeli-Palestinian conflict get a lot of attention,it is not the root of all conflict in the Middle East. Let's play "What if..": What if no Zionist movement had come into existence? Well, there would be no Israel, no Palestinian conflict. Palestine would likely be ruled by the Hashemite family who rules Jordan. The Jewish population of the US would be substantially higher. Those are a few things that would be different.
But what wouldn't be different? The Iranian revolution would have happened anyway. The Iran-Iraq war would have occurred. Ditto the Indian-Pakistani wars, the Gulf War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the wars and chaos following it. 9/11 would have happened.
Back to things that would be different: Without an Israel to provide an alienating/cooling influence between the US and the Arab governments - the conservative family monarchies and sultanates (SA, Kuwait, Oman and the little Gulf states, Morocco) would cozy up much more closely with the US - like the Shah did. This would be counter-productive as their internal malcontents would be even more inclined to see their ruling monarchies as corrupt American puppets - again just like the Shah. So the Middle East would likely have had several more Islamic revolutions like Iran's. |
