I found the Q&A about Israel to be very revealing: Folks like Walt & Mearsheimer claim that U.S. support for Israel was a principal motivation for the 9/11 attacks and Al Qaeda’s terrorism more generally. But, genuine Middle East experts recognize that Al Qaeda is first and foremost an organization seeking to overthrow apostate regimes in the Muslim world, and targets any country that supports those regimes or is seen to be waging war against Muslims (U.S., Israel, Russia, France, etc.). I find it telling that not only does Ayman al-Zawahiri put the “liberation of Palestine” at the very bottom of Al Qaeda’s to-do list, but he actually chastises Palestinian militants for not doing their part in the wider Jihad against apostate regimes and their Western patrons.
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