They're the ones that bomb "pagans" on their way to "pagan temples & shrines". They'd probably be the first to deep inside cheer should another "pagan temple", the Dome of the Rock, meet a bomb or an Israeli bulldozer. The biggest problem isn't how the world sees us, but rather how a small, but significant minority among us see ourselves, and the rest of the world too for that matter. The Arab world is pretty big, the rest of the muslim world, far bigger. That's a big cookie.

But even as their constant brutal "pecking" annoys, the Zionist machine grinds on unabated. And indeed, amid the maelstrom, gives the Zionists freedom to commit to their scheme without much notice, and more importantly hindrance, since the world obviously has both more urgent and important problems...

To me it's a typical "doube lose" hand for the rest of us, there goes not only the bet, but the whole pot, to keep the gambler analogy going.