RR Our own think tank and most prolific poster, the rest of us don't count. Don't forget his open mind. Comrade B In a message dated 9/5/2014 1:48:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ristad@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: JS, I said that the Mid East conflict was centered around Zionism. It is a little more complicated than that but easy to understand what you know the facts. The main conflict in the Middle East is between two Muslim sects, the Sunni and the Shiite, or Shia. It has been ongoing for over 700 years. 99% of the terrorism is between these two Muslim sects. The main characters are: ISIL = Sunni. Al Queda = Sunni Gaza = Shia Iran = Shia Iraq = mixed Sunni, Shia and Kurd. Shia is the majority. Israel = Sunni Saudi Arabia = Sunni Syria = mixed Sunni, Shia and Alawite. Sunni is the majority and Syria is currently ruled by an Alawite. The reason why Iran supports Hamas in Gaza is because they are Shia and Israeli Muslims are Sunni . The reason why Iran offered to fight ISIL in Iraq is because ISIL are Sunni The reason why the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel are supporting Al Queda in Syria is because Al Queda is Sunni. ISIL received training and arms from the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel when they were in Syria and part of Al Queda. ISIL's goal is to establish a Sunni caliphate in Iraq and Syria that is similar to Israel only wanting Jews. Iraq was created by Britain in 1932 by combining 3 separate regions belonging to Sunnis, Shias and Kurds, all bitter enemies of each other and a brew absolutely guaranteed to boil over. Britain also created Israel in Palestine and gave protection to Zionist invaders from Europe. I don't understand what the Great Game is, except that it's to control the oil. I suppose keeping the residents fighting each other makes them easier to conquer. I'm pretty sure that if the players did not have oil neither the U.S., Britain or Israel would give care what they did, and if we didn't keep bombing them they wouldn't care about us either. ISIL can never be defeated because the territory they occupy is almost all Sunni. You would have to kill every single person, or install another ruthless strongman like Saddam Hussein and arm him to the teeth to rule over them, except they just tried that and it didn't work. Note that the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Israel organized, trained and armed ISIL to fight in Syria in order to prevent building a Russian pipeline through Syria that would compete with Saudi Arabia. I think that what happened is they created a monster they no longer control. Even the corrupt royal family that rules Saudi Arabia is afraid of ISIL. But I think Israel is still behind them because they are an ally of Israel and hate the people of Gaza as much as the Israelis do. -RR