I really don't think much of Thomas Friedman, but sometimes he   
    comes up with something interesting. His recent column raised   
    questions about the effects of climate change and oil depletion,   
    and their effects on Iran and Egypt. Yet it raised another   
    consideration.   
      
    I have long believed the great majority of Muslims don't give a   
    damn about Israel or Palestinians. Most are far away from the   
    area, most thousands of miles away. Muslims, for the most part,   
    are no more aligned with or supportive of others sects or even   
    their own than Christians are of other Christians.   
      
    I am speculating that the animosity against Israel is   
    concentrated largely in the Middle East. I am further   
    speculating that is has little to do with Jew or Muslim, Abraham   
    or Muhammed, but mostly is concerned with water.   
      
    Water is the most valuable resource in a desert land, and   
    religion can be just another division along which to align to   
    divide up the resources.   
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... "God is dead": Nietzsche.  "Nietzsche is dead": God   
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