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To: FaultLine who wrote (22853)	3/31/2002 4:29:47 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

There would have been no Bin Laden, if the Israelis and Palestinians were living in peace. Bin Laden's and his followers' rage was created and nurtured by the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some of the key Al Queda leaders have been directly affected by the conflict and have lost family members to it. There is no question in my mind that a key reason of Islamic fundamentalism is the impotence felt by the Arabs after the many humiliating defeats at the hands of the (US supported) Israelis. Neither the Arab establishment nor ours will admit this, of course. The Arab-Israeli conflict has dominated the Arab popular media for decades and is the key reason for the anti-US feeling of the Arab masses. Couple this with poverty and lack of democracy and you have the perfect environment for the development of extremism. Only those who read primarily US-based pundits and commentators fail to understand this. What we read in this message board is primarily the viewpoint of the US establishment, justifying its support for Israel, and ensuring that the thousands of lives and hundreds of billions cost of Sept 11 is not linked with this support. The myriad articles pointing out that Bin Laden's problem is mainly with US military presence in holy Moslem lands, conveniently ignore the fact that, like almost all of Arab extremists, his hate of the US was born and nurtured in the early years by the Arab-Israeli conflict.