Online published on 23 July, 2015.
This paper contends that the present so-called “conflict of civilisations” (Samuel P Huntington, inter alia), a concept promoted by the misnamed “neo-conservatives” to lend historic inevitability to the tumult among Muslims, the contrived “war on terrorism” and the Arab–Israeli conflict, has its origins in the diplomatic machinations of the Great War. At that time, the Arabs who had aligned with the Entente were betrayed callously, the First World War was prolonged and the groundwork was laid for the establishment of Israel as a perpetual cause of turmoil in the Middle East.
