The Coming War in the Middle East

It is surely obvious to all and sundry that Israel is threatened and will continue to be threatened until some sort of settlement is reached with the Palestinians who have, to put it succinctly, had their land stolen from them. Therefore, Olmert's promising to destroy those who hate Israel and George Bush saying that no American president can remain idle if Israel is threatened,1 only have as their logical conclusion a war sooner or later. We should, however, not be diverted from the two most important questions though, namely: why is Israel hated and why can no American president remain idle, if Israel is threatened?
Israel is hated quite simply because it is built on land that belongs to others, it really is that simple and no amount of hogwash can deflect from that reality. The United States cannot afford to remain idle, if Israel is threatened because Israel, a country of only six million people, helps the United States pursue its interests in the Middle East. There is also, of course, a powerful lobby in the United States that ideologically support the zionist state.
The article in today's "Sunday Times" was revealing because it represents one of the clearest indications yet that there is going to be a war with Iran; the headline read, "President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran".2 Of course, if the US were to attack Iran, there would be an international outcry. No, do it under the guise of Israel and when Iran defends itself, step in to defend that "small", "innocent" country that has its very existence threatened by enemies who hate it. The same small, innocent country that has been relentlessly seizing and occupying others land since 1949, that facilitated the massacre of men, women and children at the Shabra and Shattila refugee camps in 1982 and again at Qana in the Lebanon in 1996 and again in the very same place ten years later, that ignores international law and practically imprisons millions of people.
The neo-conservatives in Washington and the zionists in Jerusalem are, once again, putting the lives of American and coaliton soldiers at risk in Iraq and Aghanistan, thousands if not hundreds of thousands are going to die there and elsewhere. Why? the Middle East has some two thirds of the Planet's oil reserves, by dominating the area politically and economically the US has an advantage over its economic rivals.
1,2 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4322508.ece