It's not just the Arabs who have fundamentalists in their ranks.

[DaveB]

Israel's northern border attracts curious

It was this passage that disturbed me.

"Amiyad Cohen's family are here. He's a young Israeli soldier, showing his parents and his sister where he fought Hezbollah - in Lebanon, just beyond the peach trees.

Israelis are coming to see where the fighting went on
He told me: "All the Hezbollah in our area ran away."

Amiyad is critical of the government led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: "The main problem was that they didn't let us finish the job. If we'd been allowed to get north of the Litani river, we would have won the war."

He went on: "The Israeli nation has a mission - to bring the moral message of God in the world. We have a more important mission. We have more responsibility because we're better."

I suggested that might sound arrogant.

"No. We're moral side of the world," Amiyad replied, "we're better because we are good, and we have a mission to bring good to the world."

[Dundeegeorge]

Go Amiyad

the trouble is, how can you seriously disagree with him.

(Cat, meet the pigeons.)

[Mailman]

as soon as they start detonating on restaurants, buses and trains...then you should start pancaking!

Mailman

[AtW]

I hope JabberWaker will post here too...

[xoggoth]

Quite true but only Islam has quite so bleedin' many of them.

PS "In the ranks" is important here. Only Islamic Middle Eastern states who have them in the government or as leaders