The Middle East as ‘Tinderbox’
The chaos in the Middle East has little to do with Israel and the United States and everything to do with Muslims crushing Muslims.
No doubt, the Middle East is surely a tinderbox. Jimmy Carter has called it such in a recent editorial, but I would have expected better from this world-weary and world-experienced man.
Better metaphor at least.
Internationally, hands are wrung (mostly) over Israel. One or two think to blame negotiation-failure, no matter that the Arabs won't have and won't allow progress in that arena..
The focus is on Israel’s intrusive existence, although it's well into its second half-century of that condition in a God-forsaken, stony, inhospitable but biblically important part of the world. Current crises, coming hard on the heels of one another, tend to forget or wrongly attribute blame as to how Israel got there. The mistakes are not all Western, not all (although initially) the fault of ‘infidels.’
Western errors go back eighty or ninety years, their arrogance and stra…