Intifada in Jerusalem, War in Europe—Time to Wake Up!

With events boiling around the world, two stories have recently bubbled to the surface that are especially alarming. The first story is titled “A Quiet Intifada in Jerusalem.” It’s about the recent increase of attacks aimed at Jews in Jerusalem. Attacks such as using fireworks as weapons, rock throwing and hurling Molotov cocktails. The article calls it a “quiet” intifada because the media is ignoring it.

The second story that jumps off the page has a headline that reads: “Europe Is on the Brink of Its First War in Decades. Here’s What the West Must Do.” Here is an excerpt: “In short, the separatist pantomime is over, and it is toward a new reality that we may be headed: the reality of the first real war in Europe in decades, the first aggression of one sovereign state against another that the former intends to dismember and reduce to vassal status—the very things that the construction of Europe, its reunification, and the end of the Cold War were supposed to have made impossible.”

Europe has enjoyed an unusual amount of peace over the past half-century. The world is used to seeing a peaceful, sophisticated Europe. But it wasn’t always this way. Even before the two world wars, Europe was constantly at war. This period of peace, though it seems normal today, is out of the ordinary when you look at European history.

As chaotic and dangerous as it is right now all over the world, America isn’t that concerned. “The world has always been messy,” U.S. President Barrack Obama recently said. He indicated that the world is just more aware of the messiness now because of social media and other technologies.

World events are spiraling out of control and America’s response is that things have “always been” this way. In today’s episode we explain that the world is far different today and that its time foreveryone to wake up and respond to these alarming trends.