The way I read it,

Started with Hagar, Abraham and Ishmael. Abe knocked up Hagar to begin the clan that God promised Abe, because Sarah was barren. Then he got ole Sarah expecting (the "first" son of Abe better known as Isaac), so he had no need for little Ishmael any longer. Ishmael was the first Arab (meaning "mixed blood") and he and his mother Hagar were sent out of Abe's tent at the orders of Sarah. Sarah didn't like Hagar nor the little bastard Ishmael so they were sent off to the desert where Hagar eventually (through a timely blessing from "God") found a spring to live and raise Ishmael rather than return to her home land of Egypt. Moral of the story: this has literally been going on for some 4 thousand years now and one or even two 4-year terms by any American president is not going to end the strife between those two people. It will only end when they educate their children to live side by side with tolerance, or the more likely scenario, when one of them wipes the other of the map. Either way, completely out of my control. And on a further note, if someone were to send rockets into my back yard, I'd answer with ICBMs if I had them available to me.

Christians, Jews AND Arabs worship the same god, and all study the same Old Testament. The christians have a messiah, the Arabs have a prophet and the Jews are still waiting. Arabs also believe that in end times, all three of these religions will be united, under the same God and the turmoil will end forever. I wouldn't expect GW or anyone in his administration to follow any of that, though they are "Christian".

Glad I was born here.