We live in Medieval times (only with smartphones) |
I’ve been listening to an audiobook called The Man Who Stopped the Sultan, a vivid chronicle of the 15th‑century struggles within the various fiefdoms of Western Europe and also with the Ottoman Empire. What resonates most is not merely the clash of armies, but the atmosphere those people breathed: constant, suffocating uncertainty.
No one knew who might invade next, whether their town would be looted in the fullest sense, or which alliance would abruptly shift. As I listened to the book, I wondered what it truly felt like to inhabit such an unstable world.
Then I realised – I don’t have to imagine it.
For those of us in Israel, across the wider Middle East, and even within Iran itself, the future has collapsed into a single, unsettling question: what happens next?
We are suspended between a fundamentalist regime with unwavering, genocidal ambitions seemingly willing to hang onto power at all costs and acquire weapons of mass destruction, and a Western leader whose decisions remain opaque even to seasoned policymakers. Commentators speak........