Beardedbruce my point is that Israel blaming the problem on the Muslims being "dysfunctional" is disregarding the log in their own eye to point out the dust in everyone else's eyes.

No one argues that there are problems in the region.
Everyone else but Israel believes that Israel is a good place to address these problems. One of the reasonss Cheney had for starting the neocon plan in Iraq was that the Iraqis were the best educated Middle eastern country and that for that reason it would be a good place from which to spread democracy. The Palestinians traditionally have been the second best educated Middle Eastern population. In my opinion, their main impediment to democracy is the atrocity swapping between Hamas and the Sharon Goverment.