Author is speaking from the perspective of decades, even millennia of history. This war didn't emerge from a vacuum, and Israel wasn't always under the thrall o

Author is speaking from the perspective of decades, even millennia of history. This war didn't emerge from a vacuum, and Israel wasn't always under the thrall of Likud. The change in the status quo is a result of the West growing weak. The weaker the West becomes, the more chaotic the world will become, until the next world order emerges (or the West reclaims the throne).