Allen my wife grew up Honduras as a missionary kid. After heading to college the family did a few years in Panama City and finished up in Guatemala for the last 5 years before retiring. As an aside she took my sons on a trip to Guatemala City around ’99 which made me a little nervous.. but I digress.

Anyway, what they tell me is that there are many high society (bankers, etc.) types in that region that are Palestinian and Lebanese Christians who fled the middle east. According to my in-laws these folks tend to hate Israel probably more than they do the Islamic nations.

Now I always assumed this to be the case, because it doesn’t seem like they’d make that up. In reading your information about others that are there, are some of these places soon to be hotbeds of more violent activity? Or is the Palestinian and Lebanese Arab influence not as large as they might have thought. On the surface there would seemingly be some incompatibilities there, however if the Mossad types are not as involved in the day-to-day life of those nations I suppose everything will be fine.