Quote Originally Posted by ShadeHonestus
People left the US and the UK to aid rebel movements throughout Central America in the 80's. Is it because the struggle in the Middle East is seen incorrectly as religious that we draw the line?

Most scholars of any eruditon about the region will tell you that the Jewish/Arab conficts are largely secular. Even religious leaders in the region, who aren't radicals, will tell you the many secular basis for the conflicts. The rhetoric on the nightly news and newspapers preach the religious aspects and not the reality.
Zionist jews want a bigger Israel, and their motives are mostly religious. Arabs don't like that and religion comes in handy there, no scholar would ever throw it on just demographics as either side has a very big crowd to please. Pan's question was if this is much different from Jihad, and I think that the assumption that this conflict is incorrectly seen as religious is a very big mistake. Zionists/jihadists, both holy struggles, can't we just kill them all get along.