Israel is one among many points -Nigeria, Sudan, Bosnia, kosovo, Macedonia, Chechnya,Sinkiang, Kashmir, Timor, Mindanao, et cetera - where the Islamic and non Islamoc worlds meet.
Each of these is the central issue for those involved in it, and an annoying digression for the others.
Westerners by contrast tend to give the greatest importance to those grievances which they hope can be satisfied at someone else's expanse.

The Israel-Palastine conflict has certeainly attracted far more attention than any of the others, for several reasons.
First, since Israel is a democracy and an open society, it is much easier to report - and misreport - what is going on there. Second, Jews are involved, and this can usually ensure a significant audience among those who for one reason or another are for or against them.

A third and ultimately the most important reason for the primacy of the palestine issue is that it is, so to speak, the licensed grievance - the only one that can freely and safely expressed in those Muslim countries where the media are either wholly owned or strictly overseen by the government.

This method is vastly helped by the Israely domestic scene, where any misdeed of the government, the army, the settlers, or anyone else is at once revealed and any falshood at once exposed by israeli critics

The crisis of Islam - Bernard Lewis

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