In the case of Islam, it has a religious motivation, the Jihad. In the case of Israel, the Jews race wants a sovereign state. It isn't about religion, half of the Israelis are atheists. The Jews lived in Israel since they gained freedom from Egypt, it's just that most of the time they were under the yoke of someone else, like the Abbasid Caliphate. Christian countries still involve ourselves in the Middle East, but it isn't religious, it's just geopolitics.