Dear ijb,
Your sentence:
"so why are we in the west having to pay for the barbarian conduct of the middle east."
Mine :why are we in the whole world having to pay for the brutal existence of Israel?why are in the whole world having to pay for the U.S. support to Israel?
MD11,
In my country we can hear everyday that my nation has to pay them MONEY for more than 3 generations later.
The media has cancelled a document movie about the AVH (local version of the Soviet KGB) because there were to many "israeli" names (70% about) among the members.