(New Republic) Robert Lane Greene - Let us stop with the self-deception that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian bloodletting will take away the grievance that causes young Arab and Muslim men to hate America. It won't. The real issue, as Bernard Lewis has argued, is that Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers are in permanent and furious denial of the state of the contemporary Muslim world. They cannot be placated by any change in American policy, whether reasonable or far-fetched. They can only be satisfied by the reestablishment of an Islamic caliphate, governed by sharia, from Morocco to Indonesia.
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