Several years ago I read a "Dilbert" comic where Dogbert designed "The only newspaper anyone will ever need."   The cost was a bit prohibitive ($1000), but Dogbert pointed out that the headlines on this paper never hanged: hence, it is the last newspaper anyone would ever need.   If I recall correctly some of the "headlines: were: "Wildfires in California", "Oil prices rise" and "Trouble in the Middle East."  What made the comic funny was the fact that these headlines do, in fact, seem to repeat themselves often.
The "Trouble in the Middle East" headline really made me think.  How long have the Jews and Arabs been at odds with each other?  Literally thousands of years.  The land they fight over even at this date seems a far cry from the Promised Land we read of in the Bible.  There doesn't seem to be a lot of "milk and honey" flowing any more.   The mighty cedars of Lebanon are, in large part, gone.   Yet the animosity continues with both sides laying claim to the land that belonged to their father, Abraham.  
I wonder what Abraham would say about this? 
Actually, I think the Bible tells us what Abraham would say.  We certainly are given a clear insight as to how he thought about the Land.   Have your Bible handy?   Good.  Turn to Hebrews chapter 11 and look at verses 8-10:

⁸By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
⁹By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
¹⁰For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Abraham certainly appreciated the land that God gave him.  But even more, Abraham wanted to go to the land where God WAS.  (Heaven) So great was Abraham's desire to go be with God that he lived life here on earth as a stranger.  That's a good way to look at this life.   Even at its best we are only promised a life of about 70 years on this planet.  How can that compare with an eternity with God?   It can't.  People in the Middle East....and all over the world...would be better served if they took their eyes off of this world and turned their eyes toward God...and the eternal city where He lives.

See you soon,
Bill