Mess-o-potamia
So this is what I understand about Israel, and I could be completely off, but I count on you to set me straight.

So after the whole Hitler, WWII thing the Jews are like "Dude, we need to find a place where people will leave us the f*&% alone" and they look around and hey, what do you know, the sacred lands of the torrah are pretty much vacant and wasting desert, so they're like "Let's go there" and a bunch of them were like, OK! And then a bunch of Muslims saw them turning the barren wasteland into a profitable society, because everyone knows Jews work hard and are pretty savvy businessmen, and they were like "We need a piece of that! We're living in squalor! Besides, uh, that's sacred land for us. Uhhh, that's it! We have a right to it because its sacred land where Abraham did stuff. Yeah." So they thought that if they could just get the Jews off the land, they could take it over and the profits and lifestyle would be theirs, and PS because they are Abraham's children they are entitled.

And so pretty much ever since then they have been trying to oust Jews from the Holy Lands, basically for economic reasons because they mistakenly believe that prosperity comes from Divine sources (OK, maybe somewhat true) but not in the sense of hard work and smarts - God helps those who help themselves, kind of thing. They believe prosperity is from the land which they are entitled to, nevermind that for centuries when they had it, they did nothing with it, and therefore got nothing out of it. The Palestinians don't want to live peaceably with Jews. They want the Jews to die and take all their stuff, kind of like Hitler did.

So there is this conflict which is basically Palestinians trying to spook Jews away with terrorism, and Jews fighting back the best they know how. Palestinians have jobs and things in Israel, in Jewish businesses, but that's not enough. They want to own all the businesses, because again, business acumen doesn't come from Harvard, it comes from Allah, and Allah has done so well for Muslims, taking a completely advanced civilization at the time of Muhammed to a complete and utter standstill.

So today Jews evacuated Gaza as a concession to Palestine. And I heard them talking today on NPR about it. The Jewish side saying Stop with the terrorism and we'll talk further, and the Palestinian side saying, No, we're completely disorganized and can't tell our side what to do... what we really need now is more stuff especially financial concessions and then we'll see about kindly not bombing busses. And the Jews throwing their hands up saying You see what we have to deal with? Ay-yi-yi.

F%&(ing build your own businesses, farms and economy then. What do you need the Jews for? Create, build, educate, THINK for yourselves. Oh, right, Allah doesn't teach that, does he? Apparently Allah teaches bus bombings and destruction. Nice. Let me come right over and convert.

Anyway... I'm probably waaaay off base here, so please help me understand, cause really I don't. This is my Jay-walking synopsis, my very casual gleanings. Enlighten me. But please leave the political correctness at the door. I'm not racist myself but I'm not naive enough to not realize other cultures (especially middle eastern ones) very much are.

Fire at will... Please begin commentary with your rating from 1-10 of how well I understand the situation, 10 being the best, then follow with explanation.