You're right about "they all pretty much got along" in the Middle East until Bush 43 took office.
From what I understand the Middle East was the hot vaction spot in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. The minor dust ups that occured were just overblown by the Republican controled media to drive down land prices. Haliburton didn't get to be rich and evil by writing checks left and right. Remember the 6 day war in 1967? It wasn't six days at all, more like 30 minutes of a few guys just wrestling around in the sand and maybe giving each other a nose bleed or two. After they all got tired and sweaty by rolling around in the sand, they all agreed to go to a bar and toss back a few Budweiser's and eat some Tombstone pizza's, with extra pork sausage.
Walt Disney was going to build his second park near the friendly border of Syria instead of Florida, but they couldn't agree where the Seven Sea's lagoon would go, plus the Syrian government thought the Polynesian looked dated. Don't even get me started on what the Shaw of Iran thought the Contemporary looked like.

Needless to say, Walt was forced to build in central Florida instead.