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Israel remains the Middle East’s only anchor
by Guy Bechor
November 28, 2015

…And so, for about two years, the American administration focused on us, focused on past, while the Syrian meat grinder expanded, Iraq collapsed, Libya turned into a jihadists’ springboard to Europe, Yemen collapsed and its ruins fell on Saudi Arabia, and Europe began spinning under the burden of millions of refugees…For years, these “experts” dealt with the conflict (it’s no longer called the Israeli-Arab conflict because it has shrunk to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), without realizing how marginal it is and without understanding that it serves as a tool for diverting the attention from the real problems of the Middle East. Every Arab ruler who didn’t want people to see the religious-ethnic-tribal national complexity within his home, diverted the attention towards Israel. As far as he was concerned, Israel was actually an asset, not a burden. READ MORE