Did the Jewish state provoke the rise of Islamic fundamentalist terror?
3. What where the factors in the rise of Islamic terror? A short preface: Nobody has a definitive answer to the problems of the Middle East. I have my own set of assumptions, for what they are worth. I certainly do not expect other to accept them. Nor do I blame any one side: it is my observation that blame is the stick with which the weak beat the strong. There is certainly enough blame to go around, in any case, and it appears all over the Net, I do not care to engage in it. Historically, from the Balfour Declaration of 2 Nov 1917 forward to the founding of the State of Israel, various Zionist organisations struggled to establish a nation-state for the Jews. The Palestinian National Council Charter of 1968 describes a struggle of Palestinian Arabs against Zionist and Imperialist aggression. Terror, as a weapon, has always been the modus operandi for any organisation that cannot engage its enemies in a “fair fight”, that is to say, open battle. The Diggers of the late 1600’s, the Pari
