WHAT A DOUBLE STANDARD. RUSSIA OCCUPIED E.U. SINCE E WW2., YET NONE EVER EXPRESSED ANY NEGATIVE STAND TO THAT. ISRAEL AFTER 67 WAR OPENED FREE GATES N. ECONOMICALLY FREEDOM YET THE SO CALL PALISTIANS ABUSED IT. SO ISRAEL BUILT UP FENCES CAGED THEM, CHECK POINTS AROUND THEIR VILLAGES, WE'LL THAT DID NOT " WORK" . WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO THE VERY ISSUES, THE TERRORISTS DO NOT WANT PEACE. PERIOD. THEY WANT ALL ISRAEL. NOT just JUDEA N. SAMERIA. THESE MUSLIMS ' MENTALITY ORIGINATED FROM THEIR RELIGION. THEIR FAITH IS TO CONTROL THE ENTIRE WORLD. THEN THE MASSA WILL COME. THE PROBLEM IS THE ROOTS OF ISLAM. THERE no DEMOCRACY IN ISLAM.

Are ISIS and the Palestinians the same thing - is a misleading question. Even though both ISIS and the Palestinians are Muslim Arab Sunni, we know the Palestinians are not a monolithic block; therefore, “could Palestine be turned into an Islamic State” that is the question Mr Oppenheimer obfuscates. Oppenheimer knowledge of the so-called “Palestinian struggle” is limited to recent history; therefore it represents an emaciated view on political history. The Palestinian struggle did not start as a “Palestinian struggle”. Prior to the 1967 war, the “Pan Arab” idea was at its height, and Palestine was part of the Pan Arab world. The book “The Arab Awakening” was published in 1938 by the Lebanese Christian George Antonius, who immigrated to Jerusalem, gave a Pan-Arabic view on Palestine and the struggle against Western interests. In fact, at those times, the Arabs of Palestine's, as they were called, only hope in their struggle against Zionism was a Pan Arab invasion. See “The Lesson of Palestine” (1949), by Musa Alami. But more acutely, even prior to these events, the roots of the organized armed struggle against the Zionists and the British was set up and coordinated by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, whose name was later commemorated by Hamas’ infamous Qassam rockets. Readers would be advised to follow the biography of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, a Syrian Islamist ‘rebel’, who fled Syria for acts of terrorism in the name of Islamic integrity. Qassam re-settled in Palestine in order fight the infidels, surprised?