One fact of life is all strains of muslims hate Israel and the Jews.... On that they can all agree... It can be said it is the ONE uniting belief of all muslims, according to their holy book, that Jews must be removed from the world.
It is possible all these islamic states will join together to attack the little saatn in their region.
Doubt it, despite the fact that Muslims hate Jews, they historically have hated each other much more. One benefit Israel had during the War of Independence and some subsequent wars was that the Muslims spent so much time fighting among themselves, that it help buy time and ease the onslaught for under-armed and outnumbered Israelis.
If we look at statistics, the Sunnis and Shias have massacred more of each other than they have of any other group of people in the last 100 years. The Sunnis have also massacred many of their own people. One benefit the Arabs have is that they are so divided and clan like. Just look at Fatah and Hamas.. Literally, Fatah and Hamas has massacred more of each other, including their own civilians, than they have killed Israeli citizens or soldiers. There have been many cases of Fatah fighters running to Israel for refuge to escape Hamas. Of course, they will try to unify with each other time to time to fight Israel, but by the end of the day, they live among each other, not the Jews and end up hating each other much more than the enemy from far away they read on propaganda videos. There is nothing like your enemy cursing you right to your face , insulting your beliefs and family rather than somebody you hear about in a lecture or on the news.
The Jews have never threatened to destroy the Shia or Sunni shrines. Both the Sunni and Shias know that the Jews are not an aggressive threat. Also, most Arabs don't care about the Palestinians, they are just a propaganda tool to denigrate Israel. What they really care about are the wrong clan or wrong ethnic group getting too much power or control.
One thing that scares me about the Shias is that they are organized and united. That is the major reason I would never advocate supporting SHias over Sunnis. Although, I believe in supporting them to kill each other to provide a balance.. Don't let one side get the upper hand, but especially not the Shia! Shias have grown up in a feudalistic society that dates all the way back to the Zoroastrian dynasty. They are a proud culture and are use to following one leader in much the way some feudalistic Asian societies have been. Historically, Arabs have been very united to their clans and ethnic groups. Every Shia swears his loyalty to the Ayatollah, who is like the modern Islamic version of the Shah. Shias everywhere unite together and do not have the same infighting and clan-wars that Arabs and Sunnis have.
This is why Iran has been so successful at establishing a powerful theocracy and are able to pull their resources together to build a nuclear arsenal and fund proxy wars in Syria and Palestinian areas. The only real threat Iran has to its power and authoritarian rule is that of its arch-enemy rival the Sunnis. A Sunni theocracy will never be as united or become organized like Shia dynasty, but will wreck utter havoc on the Shias. If the Sunnis start destroying the Shia holy sites, Iran will wage the bloodiest war imaginable. The blood will be boiling. Sudenly, the evil Zionist enemy from afar is no longer thought about, but rather the tyrants who threaten the religion of Shia, itself.
This would be the greatest thing that could happen to Israel. Israel and USA should sit on the sidelines and let the two terrorist groups, Shia Islamists and Sunni Islamists battle it out. Let them bomb each other's cities.. In the Iraq- Iran war they shot poison gas into each other's cities. These two sects of Islam have a much deep rooted hatred for each other than even the hatred each has for the Jews, who is a more remote ideological hatred, but not a direct threat. Sunnis consider the Shia religion, itself, a raping of its pure Islamic religion..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_WarSome estimates as high as 1,000,000 people were killed in the Iran-Iraq war.
I say let them fight.. The worst that will happen will be Al Qaeda/ISIL/ISIS will take over Iraq and I say let them have it. An Islamist Sunni state next to Islamist Shia state.. This is a wonderful thing! It wouldn't surprise me if they fight for the rest of their lives!
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