In my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS, I detail 1,400 years of jihad violence worldwide before there was a State of Israel. And what about all the jihad violence happening today all over the world? Yet al-Tayeb will no doubt deceive those who very much want to be deceived.

“Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed Al-Tayeb: People Blame Us for Terrorism, But If Not for Israel, There Would Be No Problem, the Region Would Have Prospered,” MEMRI, January 26, 2018: