causes of terrorism and some statistics...

An article titled Why I Liked Thomas Friedman's Latest Column Before I Didn't, by Kathleen Christison, contains, in part, this illuminating snippet:

...the obscenely close U.S. relationship with Israel and what he frankly called Israeli "bashing" of Palestinians has something to do with arousing Arab and Muslim anger and the kind of hatred of Israel and the U.S. that provokes terrorism. He even went so far as to remark that the Bush administration's embrace of Ariel Sharon is so tight that "it's impossible to know anymore where U.S. policy stops and Mr. Sharon's begins." Full Story >>>