How did the Middle East get so screwed up?

Southwest Jewish Congress Update by Gil Elan

How did the Middle East get so screwed up? That is a question that I’m asked more and more these days.

In just the past few weeks we've seen the murders of three Israeli teens by Palestinian terrorists from Hamas and the murder of a Palestinian teenager by young Israeli terrorists, while rockets and mortars are again hitting Israel from Gaza as the IDF destroys Hamas military infrastructures both in Gaza and the West Bank.

We’re watching as large parts of Syria and Iraq morph into an Islamic jihadist caliphate, led by a man nicknamed “the butcher from Baghdad “, who heads ISIS, the biggest and most dangerous terrorist organization in the world that is now marching on Jordan. At the same time Iran is building nuclear weapons, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria are disintegrating…and Hezbollah is watching the World Cup soccer matches from Israeli broadcasts.

Now that’s screwed up. How did it happen? How did the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of the three great monotheistic religions reach this volatile point in time?

Read the complete SWJC Update at -- http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1825091/1e4de8907c/591947869/c8aec7c0be/

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