Israel has been at war since its founding. The reason is simple.

An interesting piece of information concerns when countries became “Muslim countries” and lost their original identities. Many of the countries we consider “Muslim,” like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, were conquered during the 7th Century, primarily between 630 and 660. Many of those countries remained majority Christian or other faiths, and only after several centuries became majority Muslim. Today, one would be hard-pressed to remember that Egypt was once majority Coptic Christian, while until relatively recently, Lebanon was majority Maronite Catholic.

One can look at the modern state of Israel in many different ways. One may see it as a return of the Jewish people to their ancestral land. Alternatively, one could claim that the Jews stole some nonexistent country, “Palestine,” and turned it into Israel. The attacks against Jews in the Levant go back 100 years—even before the formal founding of the state of Israel. Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir perceptively stated that if the 1967 borders were okay with the Arabs, why did they try to destroy Israel prior to 1967? While one may claim that Arab and Palestinian violence against Israel is related to supposed colonialism and land usurpation, there is another way to look at a century of Arab violence against Jews. Essentially, the state of Israel is the only country in modern times actively trying to prevent a Muslim takeover of its land.

When one looks at the many groups and individuals who fight against Israel, one sees a hodgepodge of Jew haters. Sunnis and Shias, Islamists and Marxists, local and distant, Arabs, Persians, and Turks. The one constant is Muslim. Israel has over 130,000 Arab Christians who, for the most part, get along with the Jews and prosper in their lives here. But they’re “Arabs”! Yes, very true, but they are not at war with Israel. Muslims, whether they be Islamists or completely........

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