It just gets worse. The unfolding disaster in the Middle East is so much bigger than the Israel-Palestine morass, now ongoing for 66 years. This is starting to look containable compared with the deepening, widening, bloody schism between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, which has cost more than 200,000 lives in the past three years and displaced more than a million people.
Ominously, this week the largest hydro-electric plant in Iraq fell into the hands of the Sunni jihadist force ISIL, which took control of the Mosul Dam. ISIL now controls a crucial piece of infrastructure in Iraq. In the process, it defeated Peshmerga Kurdish fighters in the first major skirmish between ISIL and the Kurds.
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