Good points on your part also, Carol. I understand your line of reasoning perfectly.

As long as the US government and the Israeli government (and various Muslim religious zealots as well) cynically use inflammatory rhetoric to whip up people against each other over differences in culture and religion...then the type of virulent prejudice and destructive behaviour we are seeing these days will continue.

It is governments and their wealthy backers and controllers who have created these divisions, not ordinary people. Ordinary people would rather just be left alone in peace for the most part, if the great financial and political powers that be were willing to leave them alone.