Barry Eisler, ex-CIA operative turned author, discusses a variety of world issues in his blog The Heart of the Matter. Recently, Eisler initiated a series on the middle east,"The Roots of Arab Muslim Sickness". 

 from part 1 - Introduction

"But the list of countries with plenty of poverty and heartfelt grievances about being oppressed by the US is long, and for the most part it's only Muslim Arabs who have responded with unrelenting suicide bombing. What makes Arab Muslims different from all the people of the world who are more interested in getting ahead than in nursing a grudge?

I don't know the specific answer, but I suspect it's rooted somewhere in the nexus of Arab history and Muslim religion. As for the general answer, the psychology is clear: it's painful to acknowledge that a failure is your own fault, and comforting to believe that the failure is the fault of some Other. If the failures are monumental, so too must be the treachery of that Other, and therefore the hatred the perceived treachery justifies and breeds."

from part 2 - Gaza 

 "If an objective is repeatedly attainable, and someone repeatedly fails to attain it, at some point it's fair to ask whether the party really wanted that objective to begin with... or whether, in fact, their objective was always something else. The Palestinians have had many opportunities to have their own state. They do not. What is it, then, that they really want?"

Eisler provides a reasoned perspective without an overt political slant.  These posts provide thought provoking insight rarely seen or written in the mainstream media. Eisler's upcoming post in the series - "solutions"