"A culture of violence"

Från the Jerusalem Post.

It is astonishing that so many intelligent people could seriously espouse
such an obvious falsehood. Do they really believe that Sunni Muslims and Shi'ite
Muslims - whose views on Israel are identical - are slaughtering each other in
Iraq because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or that anti-Syrian
politicians in Lebanon - who are no less anti-Israel than the pro-Syrian sort -
are being assassinated by Syria and threatened with a coup by Hizbullah because
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?