"Jihadist ideologue Sayyid Qutb's anger was focused on the United States in the early 1950s, more than a decade before America became associated with Israel. Nor do colonialism and imperialism provide a convincing answer.
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SO WHAT DOES EXPLAIN jihadist hatred of the West? It is true that factors such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can help drive people into the enemy's camp. (Habeck refers to that conflict as the jihadists' "single best recruiting tool.") But Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and their comrades aren't simply reacting to U.S. policies. Their pronouncements reflect "their own most deeply held religio-political views of the world." "
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/

I bought the book, maybe it will be interesting.