OPINION:
The United States, Russia and China are superpowers.
America sees itself as the guardian of free and democratic nations.
Russia wants to recreate the Soviet Union and blames America for bringing it down.
America and Russia are duking it out in the Middle East. China is observing.
The Ottoman Empire lasted from 1260 to 1914. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran each see themselves as leading the empire’s re-emergence.
In 1928, Hassan al-Banna created the Muslim Brotherhood to conquer “infidels” and establish a caliphate. Today, the terror group is based in Qatar.
When Nazism was growing in Europe, militant Arabs, led by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, joined forces with the Nazis.
From 1920 to 1942, al-Husseini initiated pogroms against Middle Eastern Jews. During World War II, he formed Bosnian-Muslim SS units supporting Hitler. He escaped French captivity, fleeing to Beirut and avoiding the Nuremberg trials.
In 1964, the Soviet KGB and Egypt hatched a plot to diminish American Influence. They built the Palestine Liberation Army, collecting fighters from throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Its modus operandi was terrorism, meant to drive the Jews out of Israel.
No Arab was called a Palestinian before 1964. The term only became popular after the 1967 war.
On Oct. 7, 2023, the terrorist organization Hamas launched a massacre against Israel. On Oct. 8, Hezbollah joined in. Propaganda spewed from 40,000 websites. Tent cities sprang up on university campuses everywhere. The same tents, the same posters, the same chants, the same marches.
Russia directed this aggression. Qatar supplied the money while Iran built a ‘ring of fire’ around Israel.
LEN BENNETT
Deerfield Beach, Florida
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