I have often suggested, bobad, that Muslim extremists are like the Nazis too. Like the Nazis, they have an exaggerated sense of persecution and martrydom. Like the Nazis, they encourage hatred and fear to motivate their people to fight. Like the Nazis, they believe they are on a holy mission. I believe both the Isrealis AND their most fervent opponents are a lot like the Nazis in their basic psychology.

You see, the Nazis managed to batter many of the world's Jews into becoming extremists and professional martryrs, and now the Israelis and Americans have managed to batter many of the world's Muslims into becoming extremists and professional martyrs.

So if you want to, you could blame it all on Hitler... ;-)

But then you'd be forgetting that Clemenceau and Loyd George arranged to batter the Germans after WWI into becoming extremists and professional martyrs...and before that the Germans battered the French in the Franco-Prussian war...and before that....

And so it goes...around and around and around the mulberry bush, and everyone making the same error over and over again by reacting to someone's inhumanity to them...by doing it to someome else. (the same thing often happens with battered children)

These aggressive political factions all act like Nazis, to one extent or another. None of them have yet quite managed to equal the harm the Nazis did, fortunately, but it's not for lack of trying.