I am again reminded how biased the mainstream media in US is against Arabs and Palestinians. The coverage of removal of little over 8,000 settlers from Gaza is an indications of the deep hostility the US government and its corporate media has towards Arabs. There were 8,000 people encouraged by over 40 years of US support to settle in an area inhabited with over 1 million Arab "native" and refugees from the creation of Israel in 1945. We the tax payers in US have financed this occupation and dare to ask why they hate us!!!!!!!

The ratio of 8,000 to 1,000,000 is the indicative of how we in US and West in general views the Arabs. Bush's foreign policy and presidents before that has been based on loathing and disrespect for non Judeo-Chriscians of the world. This is the crux of the conflict between east and west, not the smoke screen Bush is presenting to American people for invading, detaining, economically terrorizing, and disregarding Arabs and others. Chinese and Indians know that and hopefully they will be the catalyst for changing this deep western hatred for anything non-western, or else!!!!!