Beyond all the narratives and all the historic score-settling, human life is the most precious thing of all: people are more important than land, and this land is already saturated with too much blood

After three years of continuous bloodshed, the overall picture of the whirlwind that has visited the Middle East is beginning to come clear. What began at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict turned into a regional war with direct involvement of the United States and indirect involvement of China and Russia. It culminated in a crisis with global ramifications that, based on various estimates, cost the world economy around $2.2 trillion.