Back to the Jihadist Future

By Gil Elan, President and CEO of SWJC, is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and a widely regarded expert on Israel and the Middle East.

We've seen this movie before. Around 622 CE, a small army of newly converted Arab Muslims, religiously zealous and fiercely loyal to their charismatic prophet Mohammed, rode out of the Arabian peninsula to spread Islam - the new and latest version of the "one universal truth" first given to the Jews (the Torah) and later the Christians (the New Testament). . . This brings us to what is happening today in Iraq and Syria. The comparison and parallels to the seventh century are clear, though with one major difference - unlike the somewhat ragtag Muslim forces that followed Mohammed and the early Caliphs, the ISIS is a formidable, well-disciplined, well trained and very well equipped battle-hardened and ever-growing military powerhouse.

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