The roots and tentacles are in history, but how far back?
66 A.D., when the Romans sent Jews into centuries of diaspora?
The next 18 centuries of Christian hate and persecution of Jews in myriad ways and forms?
632, Mohammed the founding of Islam
688, the Battle of Karbala
1896 when Theodore Herzl issued his call for a Jewish homeland?
1916 in the dessert with Lawrence?
1917 and the Balfour Declaration?
1943, the Tehran Big 3 Conference what did the FDR and Stalin see there?
The war, the Holocaust and all it wrought?
The Holocaust, the Holocaust, the Holocaust, always and forever, the Holocaust?
1947, the Partition?
1948 the first war won by Israel?
1953 when the CIA arranged the removal of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, replacing him with? With the Shah (is it too late to laugh)?
Israel’s victory in 1967.
Israel’s near destruction in 1973?
1978, the Iranian Revolution?
1978, the Israeli/Egyptian peace?
1990, George H.W. Bush and Kuwait?
2002, George W. Bush’s benighted wars against – and then in Iraq?
2011, the “Arab Spring”?
2024, Oct. 7, and every minute since?
Every other year in between when something happened?
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Does this, can this, will this history ever have an end?
Peeling the Onion 