ARUTZ SHEVA
by Dr Mordechai Kedar
July 8, 2015

It won’t help the West to live in denial. There is a state out there that has to be destroyed just as Nazi Germany had to be destroyed.

The organization called Daesh appeared on the Middle Eastern stage in the middle of 2014, although it was founded 14 years earlier as the Iraqi arm of Al Qaeda. The world paid the organization scant attention until it suddenly began to take over wide areas of northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria with record speed. At first, international attention focused mainly on the videos  in which the organization’s soldiers were seen butchering foreign journalist and even now, the world considers this group of Jihadists a terrorist organization, despite the fact that in June 2014, that organization declared itself a state, “Islamic State” and began calling its leader a Caliph. Politicians, media personalities, academicians and experts have a visceral  and psychological opposition to recognizing this organization as a state, even though the area it controls as of today is 15 times the size of Israel. READ MORE