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The Palestine-Israel conflict is the crucible of the conflicts affecting the Muslim ummah. For more than 20 years since 1403/April 1983 it has acted as the epicentre of global jihād. Kashmir, Chechnya and other dangerous regional conflicts do not depend solely on a solution to the Middle Eastern conflict because they have their own specific causes and potential settlements. There can be little doubt that the long, nearly 60-year, struggle to rectify the injustice suffered by the Palestinians in 1367/May 1948 is a unifying factor in what might otherwise seem a set of disparate conflicts, or Arab-Israeli wars, affecting the Middle East.
The fact that must be acknowledged is that the issue of Palestine is the cause that has been firing up the feelings of the Muslim nation from Morocco to Indonesia for the past 50 years. In addition, it is a rallying point for all the Arabs, be they believers or non-believers, good or evil…
Ayman al-Ẓawāhirī, Deputy Leader of al-Qaeda, in his memoirs, Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner, December 2001, ch. 111
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Bonney, R. (2004). The Crucible: The Palestine-Israel Dispute and its Consequences. In: Jihād. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501423_12
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