The Intractability Of The Middle East Crisis: The Israel – Hamas War

Abstract

This paper discussed the intractability of the Middle East Crisis and the Israeli/Hamas war. The paper traced the existence of the countries of the Arab World, and the Israeli to the two children of Abraham, namely: Isaac, and Ishmael. The paper explored the speculation that could the root cause of the crisis be the angelic prediction concerning the fate of Isaac/Ishmael's descendants. Further questions asked in this paper are: could the angelic prediction be a cosmic spell on the descendants of Abraham? Could the war be a result of a dichotomy in religious philosophy? Could the crisis be traced to the aggressive propensities of some rogue nations? Whatever might be the case, other reasons for the crisis were exhaustively discussed, such as the Sunnis/Shia dichotomy, the aggressive propensities of Iran, being the lone sponsorer of terrorist proxies of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis; the Israeli/Palestinian crisis, the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouaziai of Sidi Bouazid in Tunisia that culminates to the Arab Spring was also ex-rayed, etc. This paper also explored the rise of anti-semitism, most especially Hadolf Hitler's aggressive propensities in the second world war that led to the extermination of the lives of about six million Jews. The historical returns of the Israelites to their ancestry home, the roles of individual like Herzl, and the assistance of the Rothschild family in that regard was also a subject matter of discussion. The paper suggested some roadmaps to achieving sustainable peace in the middle East against the background of the envelope of darkness within which the countries of the Middle East sealed themselves and given the recent violent attack by Hamas on the nation of Israel and the eventual declaration of war on Hamas by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The paper also discussed the legality or otherwise of the IDF’s approach to the war against the background of the rules for the conduct of Hostilities under the International Humanitarian Law.