It's the old Issac and Ishmael thing. Why the hell don't we factor this into our middle east policy of creating representative government? 
I remember being at the British Museum a number of years ago and coming across tablets that represented the correspondence between the Pharaoh and his ambassador to what was later to become Israel. The ambassador wrote, (and here I'm paraphrasing a little, of course) "The Habiru hate the Arabs and the Arabs hate the Habiru, they're always fighting and I can't get them to stop. This is hopeless. I'm giving up and coming home." Some things never change.
It's the old Issac and Ishmael thing. Why the hell don't we factor this into our middle east policy of creating representative government?