Someone else wrote:

What are the areas of Greater Israel called? Judea and Samaria is it not? What were these lands named after? Judea = Jews, Samaria = Samaritan Jews. Are we Jews not fighting for lands once given to us by G-d. Is the Jewish Bible, sacred to the Moslem and the Christian, not proof of our ownership? In other words, keep fighting war #4.

To which my jewish friend responded:

And what is the alternative? To return back to the crematoria and the mass graves of Europe? To live in a country at the whim of it's government and citizens?

Anti-semitism is on the rise in Argentina, Canada, France, Denmark, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It has already risen in Great Brtiain, Russia and the US. If you travel through Europe, you will find anti-semtic graffiti just outside Rome's main station. It is very common in certain Paris suburbs where a Jewish soccer team was beaten up by another team's supporters on the soccer ground requiring hospitalisation for some of them. In an increasingly unsafe world for the Jew, is Israel that much less of a risk?

Only for the Jew is it a matter of survival, only to the Jew was the Holy Land promised by G-d and only for the Jew is the Holy Land acknowledged by both Christianity and Islam - yes, you read right - Islam!

Yet, increasingly, it seems that it is not so much a war between Jew and Arab over a tiny, narrow stretch of dirt in the Middle East, but more and more a war between Islam and everyone else. The Jews are, as usual, the litmus test of mankind's struggles with itself.