Jean-François Colosimo: The assault led by the Islamic Republic against the Hebrew State serves as a reminder that times of geopolitical change are first revealed in places of confessional confluence. In the year 614, the Persians took Jerusalem.
As a trophy, they steal the relic of the True Cross. Holy war is declared. It will be Jesus against Zoroaster. The eternal enemy of the Greeks and Romans is this time destroyed. An unexpected triumph for Byzantium. And the beginning of its long decline. The Persian rampart, which confined the Arabs in the peninsula, is nothing more than a vast breach. For the first time, the horsemen of the desert, just converted to the prophecy of Mohammed, can sweep over the East. In 636, they won the Battle of al-Qadisiyya and forced ancient Iran to adopt Islam, ushering in endless enmity. And in 637… In 637, the West was defeated.