world to continue its "eternal struggle"... against the rest of the human race. Another reason might be that the Western Elite don't believe in religion, aside from Marxist worship of the state (which is really worship of the leaders so in effect it is self-worship). Since they don't believe in divine religions, they don't take Islam any more seriously than they do Christians or Jews. They see Islamic leaders, including religious ones, in their own terms: men seeking power. In a way that is true, except those men are using hatred and violence to achieve their ends AND they have a doomsday vision that will usher in the perfect world after a lot of bloodshed. Then again, this also isn't too different from the Western Elite who are using the hatred of their followers to bring about the doomsday collapse of Western Society so they can impose their perfect totalitarian Utopia. Maybe they think they have an understanding with the Islamists, but they are in fact just too deluded to realize that once Israel is gone, the West will be the next target, and a denuded Soviet style economy won't be able to put up much resistance. Faculty Marxists may hate Israel but its not a special hate. They felt the same way about America's routing of the Taliban in Afghanistan. And pretty much so on throu history. I once heard an resentful person mentioning that the yahoos did not like them to talk about the imminent defeat of the