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>Wahhabism and Jihadism itself emerged largely due to Israel's actions.
I'd say it's one aspect of it. But I don't like this theory that the jihadis are just reactive. They have their own agenda and people tend to underestimate how crazy (or diabolically brilliant really) they can be until they make their move. I mean Jesus, look at that attack in Russia recently where they killed something like 200 people at a concert. They see Russia as an enemy just like they do the United States, and you also see people who want the U.S. and Russia to get along (not that weird when you think about it) because they have a shared enemy here. (I'm looking at Tulsi Gabbard, who is very pro-Israel.)

BTW, one of the transition points from Al Qaeda becoming more of an anti-Western force was not just U.S. support for Israel, but the sluggishness by which the West responded to the war in Bosnia where hundreds of hard core Al Qaeda guys went to in the 1990s. The West did intervene eventually but it took a few years, and they didn't like that dawdling very much. Then they went and blew up some U.S. embassies in East Africa and mostly killed local Africans (but who cares) and then wounded thousands because they packed the truck bombs to the brim with nails and shredded metal. And they think that's legitimate based on badly out-of-context Islamic fatwas from 1,000 years ago about what to do when enslaved Muslims pushing siege towers in Mongol armies are advancing on the city walls (i.e. it's okay to shoot arrows at them, i.e. it's a life or death situation, but these guys don't think like that).

>Jews did just find under Arab rule for milennia and had virtually no issues coexisting with Arabs during the Ottoman era either.
Well sure but the Ottoman Empire collapsed. That's a big problem. The Austro-Hungarian empire also collapsed. Most nations that emerged from the empires that collapsed during this time have not fared so well, and there has been a lot of ethnic conflict. Israel has a unique position because of the Holy Land's significance, but I don't see what's going on there as that different from Armenia and Azerbaijan.