Today, Benjamin Netanyahu went to the UN and gave a speech that, unless you were paying close attention in World History I, you would not understand. Netanyahu is speaking to a world that has long forgotten what Constantinople had to do with Istanbul, and what the Ottoman Empire's collapse in 1918 actually caused for the world 100 years later.
I feel like he needed a translator to explain a world map that no one really understands anymore.
The old question was, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem," and it was first posed by Christian theologian Tertullian about AD 200. Though it was initially about philosophy/theology, it is still the question that matters geographically and socially.
Netanyahu sees a Middle East still grappling with the ghosts of empires and the failure of Western leaders to understand or read the lost maps of centuries ago. So when he talks about Greece and Cyprus against Turkey, he means the fall of Byzantine Constantinople in 1453, Cyprus under Ottoman rule after ...

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