Our generation has lived with war and conflict in the Middle East for much of our lives.  Although these complicated and multifaceted conflicts loom over us, they do often feel very removed from our lives and can be difficult to understand.  The combination of religious and political hatred has caused multiple intertwining issues and sometimes it feels as if a news story or article is not enough to capture all of these problems together.  For example, the Israeli airstrikes in Syria were not meant to involve Israel in Syria’s 3-year civil war against rebel opposition; rather, the...