Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

Indeed, it was Erdoğan s divide and rule strategy fueling religious populism and nationalist sentiment, and inflaming ethnic tension with the Kurds that carried the AKP to victory. Arguably, it was the only strategy that could work.

The problem is that a US military response is essentially useless under these conditions, and can easily inflame the situation rather than resolve it. Among other problems, the US relies heavily on drones and bombers, leading to a high civilian death toll, which is inflaming public attitudes against the US.

The competence of Iraqi and Kurdish ground forces crucial if territory is to be taken and held will take time to build up, and may never be achievable with the so called moderate forces within Syria. Airstrikes anywhere risk civilian casualties and thus the possibility of inflaming the very sentiments one is trying to counter.

An anxious nation is counseled to be resilient Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who live around us .This is the fate of our generation to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.

But, as Mubarak s regime declined, so did the government s control over the Bedouin. Palestinian militants from Gaza an active arena of Israeli Palestinian confrontation since Hamas gained control in 2007 and jihadi terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda and the larger global jihad network penetrated Sinai, exploiting the government s neglect of the region and inflaming the local population s feelings of disenfranchisement.