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ELI5: Why is the Middle East so torn apart by war?
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Because religions hate one another.
Because after being gone for 2000 years, the Jewish people returned and took Israel from the native Palestinians somewhat by force.  A world that felt guilty about the Holocaust let it happen.  
Because the world has a frightening amount of latent anti - semitism. 
Because the Soviet Union and the US fought a war by proxy through the middle east. 
Because at the end of WWI the victors drew lines on a map to make silly borders irrelevant to the people living there and handed out control of the area like prizes for winning the war.  They also installed royal families invented out of thin air from collaborators etc.
Because the US fights wars against terrorism and Iran by proxy. 
Because Oil = money = the US, China and Russia cannot mind their own business.
Because oil = money = huge divide between rich and poor = instability.