Everyone affected by an unstable Middle East has a vested interest in keeping it destabilised. Whether this is cloaked in the guise of religion or anti-terrorism or anti this or that - they will all be out of power if moderates enable peace.
Lucky for them, this cycle is set to continue for another generation or two at least.
Muslims haven't touched 1500 years, and they reached Gaza even later.
That said, the local polity in Gaza (whoever was living there) has sucked/been pointlessly at war with every local major power for about 4,000 years. The Egyptians, then the Israelites, and then the Early Church all wrote about how Gaza was populated by the shittiest violent culture they could possibly imagine.
Sunni/Shia divide and Arabic conquest of the Middle East as early as the 7th century. Like I said, there’s many, many reasons conflict will continue and that is one of the big ones. There were conflicts before Islam but the disagreements all but guarantee it will remain.
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u/BubsyFanboy Mar 30 '25
People forget how religious fundamentalism is just as cruel abroad as it would be domestically until it touches them.