Why Do They Always Drag In Israel?

al-Qaida blows up an Arab residential compound in Riyadh. They deliberately target Muslim women and children. Why?

With Washington continuing its occupation of Iraq, despite international and United Nations protests, Arabs are feeling increaslingly insecure, said the Riyadh-based employee. The Bush administration's handling of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has only fuelled anger. (emphasis mine)

Now, the last I checked, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had nothing, zero, to do with this bombing. It was an attack on the House of Saud, a regime the terrorists consider to be too moderate for their tastes. This had nothing to do with the Jews. It had nothing to do with Tel Aviv. It had nothing to do with Jerusalem, the Al Asqa Mosque, or the Temple Mount. It was a strike at the Saudi regime.

The Arabs have got to get away from the intellectual crutch of blaming Israel for everything in some way, shape, or form. Israel is the root of all evil only in the minds of those too feeble of mind to think for themselves. It is a scapegoat for those unwilling to look within. It is an excuse for those incapable of self-criticism.

The Arabs living in Saudi Arabia need to simply deal with the fact that the seeds sown by the Saudi regime are starting to blossom. Wahabbi Islam is creating hate filled monsters with no direction, except the unending pusuit of martyrdom. They don't care who they kill or how, so long as they can brand the potential victim an infidel and therefore get their 72 virgins in Paradise. Muslim, Jew, Christian. Arab, Israeli, American. None of it matters. A dead "infidel" is the ticket to never ending bliss for the terrorists. Hitting the US and Israel have become too difficult for the thugs lately. Is it any wonder that they turned their homicidal tendencies on their own? Not to anyone who has paid attention it's not.

I keep hoping against hope that this will be the wake-up call for Muslims and Arabs alike to see that the nutjobs do not care about anything other than murder and mayhem. If they're already starting to fall back on the Israeli crutch, I don't think that I'm going to be rewarded for my hope this time either.