The land of the Middle East has been damp with the smell of gunpowder and the blood of the innocent for decades, but in recent years, the rising tension between the United States and Iran has brought this region to a brink from which there seems to be no return.

When students of global politics study this complex situation deeply, the truth becomes clear as day: the root cause and catalyst of all this chaos is Israel. This cat-and-mouse game between Washington and Tehran is essentially a war being fought to protect the Israeli agenda.

This is precisely why neither Washington nor Tehran has been able to cool this fire, for the key to ending this conflict lies with a state whose very survival is embedded in war, strife, and chaos. Israel's historical background bears witness that it has never accepted peace as a viable option; rather, its entire history is a relentless sequence of wars, occupations, and atrocities against humanity.

Since the very first day of its illegitimate creation in 1948, Israel has maintained a fabricated and false propaganda campaign against the Middle East and the Muslim world at large, aimed at cloaking its expansionist ambitions in a religious shroud.

The Zionist ideology posits that they have been religiously ordained as the rulers of a specific territory, even though those lands have belonged to others for centuries. In the name of "reclaiming" these areas, the bloodshed Israel has unleashed has left an indelible stain on the face of humanity.

From the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, which Palestinians call the 'Nakba' or Great Catastrophe, to the present day, Israel has made it its habit to violate the sovereignty of all its neighbours.

Whether it was the invasion of Egypt in 1956 or the Six-Day War of 1967, where Israel seized the lands of neighbouring countries through........

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