Victory in the 1948 war was a turning point in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and subsequent attempts to dislodge Israel from the Middle East also failed but the recent wave of social and political unrest that has been sweeping the Muslim world has become such an extensive socio-political tsunami, that the politico-demographic map of the area has been changed irrecoverably.

The most prominent nations in the western alliance have found themselves in a deep crisis of reflection. The biggest problem has been “what to do about the current unrest that is sweeping North Africa and the Middle East?”