You are correct about the Crusades. And the below commentators act as though you have to somehow choose between the post-WW2 context and that time period for ex

You are correct about the Crusades. And the below commentators act as though you have to somehow choose between the post-WW2 context and that time period for explanatory power, when of course Middle East history is lengthy and rich and has room for both and a lot of important additional contexts besides, including the Ottoman empire, the Persian empire, the breakup of the original Caliphate, etc. etc. "Those who cannot learn from history," and so on.