Most Middle Easterners don’t like chaos and violence, but most of them, except, to a degree, for Israelis, are resigned to it. New belligerent groups kept arriving in the crossroads of the Middle East from all directions. Archeologists steadily unearth these ancient Mid-East civilizations under encrustations of mud or cocoons of sand, like layers of a tree. During the First World War, they threw the Allies into the sea at Gallipoli in 1915 though outnumbered almost two to one, inflicting 250,000 casualties and almost ending Winston Churchill’s political career. The official Saudi press remarked last week that “the Americans have traded their traditional allies for Iran.” So they have.

Source: National Post September 23, 2016 19:30 UTC