Little Hawk, yep they have an inferiority complex. Maybe it's been a wrong train of thought on the Arab part for centuries. You have to have personal growth before you can have economic growth.

and the Arab world knows all they have is their oil and when we don't need their oil because we can get a lot of elsewhere such as China as you mentioned or more and more of those hybrid cars are on our roads I feel it makes them hate everyone else even more and feel that they have nothing to lose.

Israeli Jews ARE underdogs. And the key word you used is COUNTERmeasures. Response. Remember, we don't turn the other cheek, we hit back harder. That is why there will never be another Jewish holocaust.

Your reasonable minded Arab friends of which I have no doubt they exist, undoubtably live in fear for their lives, as they are quite the minority and I see none of them speaking out for the world to hear.