Shimon Peres assisted with terrorist attacks against American civilian targets in Egypt. He's what you'd call a terrorist unindicted co-conspirator. And?
Just another case of us sticking our noses into the affairs of the ME and Africa. Nothing good will come of it. See how long it took the Arab League to roll us under the bus?
Our level of involvment in the middle east should be as follows:
Leave Isreal alone, they are our allies. Mess with them and we'll carpet bomb your capital.
Leave us alone. Mess with us and we'll drive your people into the nearest sea.
Civil war? Fine. Whoever wins, call us, we'd like to buy some oil.
No matter how many Harvard graduates we throw at figuring out the Middle East, we can't seem to get it right. Why is that? Perhaps because our policy of interventionisim is fail. We don't understand the culture and the people of the Middle East. And yes, I'm lumping Lybia into this because the way of life and thinking is still very similar from what I can gather.