I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth.
But now it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox. And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.
So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?
The wikipedia article on that piece of land is crazy. Religious zealots have been fighting over it since basically recorded history started.
It freaks me out that the cradle of civilization is completely desertified and locked in an endless war, as if that’s just the inevitable result of humans being somewhere for a long time.
Cradle of religion?
Not really cradle of civilisation.
Not really. That only really started with the crusades. For most of history it just got traded between various empires that just wanted to control the entire region (Babylon, Persia, Macadon/Selucids, Rome, Ottomans, etc).
Yeah, the crusaders were the first ones that weren't interested in greater Syria/the greater Levant (If you don't include the Phoenician city states I guess), stupidly enough for them. It's a fine bit of territory to control if you can actually take the whole thing because of natural chokepoints, but otherwise you'll lose eventually. Ottomans just went back to what the Romans did and governed it as Syria.