Middle East
Jews Christians Muslims
The Middle East is a complex tangle of religions, interests, cultures and races, and it is the cradle of Western Civilization for that very reason. As for who is right and who is wrong, that is an even greater challenge. Each entity, of course thinks it is right and everyone else is wrong, and it is not just about the 3 Abrahamic religions, but about two dozen other religions many of them offshoots of the 3 main ones.
There are a half dozen different kinds of Muslims alone, a half dozen kinds of Christians, and even several different kinds of Jews not to speak of countless other groups. All of these hate each other with an unholy, undying hate that regularly boils over into genocidal blood baths, land confiscations, and border adjustments.
Who is right under these circumstances is almost a joke. There literally is no right and wrong as the democracies in the West measure such things. The best that anyone can do is try to mediate these age old hates in a way that minimizes the destabilization of the rest of the world.
During the 60s and 70s these waring parties very nearly dragged the two nuclear superpowers into a world nuclear war that could easily have destroyed all life on planet earth. Fortunately, both America and the USSR headed off this doomsday scenario, but barely.
Each of the hundred or so sides in the Middle East make their case exhaustively that they, and they alone, are right and everyone else is wrong. No wonder our first President George Washington, who knew very well of the history of these things, counselled America in the strongest terms to steer clear of ancient hates of the old world, and you can't get any more old world than the hates of the Middle East.
It is not that the Jews settling in Israel brought this trouble with them. Indeed, to the contrary, they brought with them western democratic idealism that all kinds of people can, and should, live in peace. But that naivete was short lived as they found out quickly that their Arab neighbors were determined to kill them all.
Understandably they fought back with their backs to the relentless wall of the Mediterranean Sea, and plucky little Israel, at a great cost in blood and treasure, defeated a horde of multiple Arab armies in a series of repeated wars spanning decades, to earn the right to exist at all. Yet these cases the various sides make are extensive and held passionately, such that it would take many books to detail all of them, and indeed hundreds of books have been written on behalf of all of them.
Yet, underlying all this sound and fury is the historical record where the Israelites from the time of Moses have laid claim to the approximate land of Israel, and land occupying a narrow strip of the fertile crescent along the sea coast and inland to the Syrian, Jordanian, Arabian, and Egyptian deserts. In this geographic cradle was born the 3 religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each born about 700 years apart, with each of these built on a foundation incorporating the religion(s) before it.
Thus Christianity was formed out of Judaism and incorporated it, and Islam was born out of both Judaism and Christianity, and incorporated both of them. The Torah of Judaism is the basis of Christianity, which in turn is the basis of Islam. None of these can escape the other if they wanted to, still they fight on and on over the nature of God among other things.
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