Israel, the U.S., and the West in general for the last two-thirds of a century. By directing their subjects' resentment of the fundamentally FUBAR'd state of their own societies and lives against a foreign "enemy", those governments have managed to stay in power, and milk the oil wealth under their sands, since the end of World War Two. There is little difference in this respect between the Saudi royal family and Hamas in Gaza. When the scam breaks down, the result is what happened to Qaddafi in Libya. However (and this is the point that Western "intellectuals" deliberately refuse to admit exists) it would not be possible if the culture of Islam was not based on eternal war against anything and anybody defined as "non-Islamic". Without that "demand from on high" for the subjugation, or better yet extermination, of the "infidels" (us in general and Jews in particular), the entire con game wouldn't work. This is why the "Arab Spring" has resulted in anti-Western dictators being replaced, not by friendly democratic regimes', but aggressively hostile Islamist ones. Simply put, faithfulness to Islamic doctrine requires such governance. Compare and contrast, India after the Raj. It separated into India (predominantly Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh), and East and West Pakistan (almost entirely Muslim- East Pakistan was the original name of Bangladesh). Vast numbers of people "relocated" to form enclaves based on religion, the process taking over three years (1948-1951). About five minutes after the moves were finished, the Muslim government of the "two