Great insights. I think it needs to be emphasized as well that the Jihadists turned this crisis from a political problem into an intractible religious war of which other nations have borne so much brunt as well.

Those who doubt this may not have read Hamas Covenant, that 👇

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it"

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp