It so happens to be at the epicenter of a geopolitical timebomb that has been ticking for over a hundred years, long before Israel was born and Palestinians occupied. It started out about oil and industrial regional dominance, but has since transpired into a fundamentalist feud of world views, aka Plutocracy/Capitalism/Corporatism vs. Monarchy/Sheikdom/Islam, that makes the Cold War seem like nothing but a passing bout of indigestion.
This can't be allowed to go unchallenged. This is not a clash of civilizations. This is not a clash of ideas. This is not anything that evokes adversaries of equal capacity with opposing or competing goals, methods, and resources. This is a contest where one side, the majority world, doesn't even know there's a game afoot but finds themselves beset by poverty, repression, and violence without end.
The root cause, the oil, but not just, resources of every kind, is nothing but loot to be pillaged. The narrative of "a clash", of dangerous "Islamic extremism", of threats to our "way of life" (rampant consumerism), is for domestic consumption. So that we can enjoy our cheetohs and pepsis while CNN and FOX sell carnage as freedom.
