Not to start a political or cultural hassle here BUT.....The Arabs were once pretty smart dudes. For example; we use Arabic numerals. There were guys like Omar Khayam, a pretty cool individual, and many more bright arab types who invented things like the water clock and managed to do some outstanding architectural things. Somewhere along the way their collective brains seemed to have turned to camel dung. The nut cases who are lobbing rockets at the hebes are a case in point. Attacking the guys with by far the biggest sticks is not a smart judgement call.
The Israelis must have been kind of dumb way back in time...Like who would follow Moses around the desert for 40 years? Time passed and the jews have progressed mightily. They gave us people like Einstein, and countless other brilliants. Now Israel produces real goods of highest quality. They make some of the wordls finest cutting tools like saw blades and machinists cutting edges. They make airplanes, BS1088 plywood, and incredibly clever gadgets like the Noga. They are smart enough to charge a premium price for their goods too.
Meanwhile the Arabs are not making a damned thing except oil. Even then the arabs are not the primary ones involved in extractions. Well maybe they are smart after all. They use all that money to hire Americans, Brits, Germans and others to do the engineering for them. They hire foreign peasants to do their hard labor like in Dubai. But they do not produce anything, or invent anything other than ideas, some of which are way out in left field.
So there is an enormous cultural and developemental difference, even if they evolved from the same geographical areas. In fairness, the Turks do produce some products and services that are useful. Why only the Turks?
I'm with a previous post that suggested that we snooker the pirates by having them attack some ships bearing the star of David flag. The Israelis are not nearly the goody two shoes outfit that the UN operatives are. That is obvious from observations of the developements of the last few weeks.
Disclaimer: I am NOT an Israelite. Not even close. I do respect them however.