yes, it is my opinion that the israeli palestinian conflict has been used often in the past, going way back to cause a diversion or as i like to say to switch channels on us to take the focus off of things elsewhere. but this time seems to be different, it would appear israel is part of the so called grand plan for the (so called) new middle east, and as our enemy must always have a face it has morphed from osama to the taliban to alquaeda to saddam to zarquawi to hamas and hezbollah and the so called real evil ones(that they refuse to talk to)and been mentioned from the very beginning, syria and iran. as they have supposedly been supplying all of the above all along as they hate democracy(sound familiar)even though it is o.k. for the u.s. and u.k. to fund and arm israel. so in today's world if you illegally invade another country you are spreading freedom and democracy and if you defend your country your leader is a dictator, your country is a rogue state and you are a terrorist, or the lesser politicaly correct term insurgent. all rather perverse, no!