taken control over Egypt and Al-Sis1 would still have taken it back a short time after.
¢ Syria would still have been embroiled in a bitter civil war. And Iran — would still be striving for regional hegemony and nuclear military capability.
¢ The reasons for all the above are deeply rooted in the history of the nations and the region — and do not stem from the Israeli Palestinian conflict (they may be related to it in another way, which I will get to later on).
¢ In the new reality forged by the "Arab Spring," there is good news and bad news for us.
Let's start with the bad news:
ISIS, the disintegration of Syria, the events in Iraq — all of these are bad news that prove to us, time and time again, that the Middle East is indeed a tough neighborhood. There is no mercy for the
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