By CLARION PROJECTUpdated: OCTOBER 29, 2015 10:54 “The art of reframing is to maintain the conflict in all its richness but to help people look at it in a more open-minded and hopeful way.” – From Bernard Mayer’s “The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution”By Ryan MauroCan we look at what is going on in Israel today – and the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole – “in a more open-minded and hopeful way”?After all, the current trouble is nothing new. Arabs have been stabbing and murdering Jews for 100 years, long before the modern State of Israel came into being. The Hebron Massacre in 1929 is just one incident that springs to mind.And with no substantial political or military solution on the horizon, how can we possibly reframe things?Well, the popular way of looking at the conflict is to see it simply as a dispute over land. This narrative accuses Israel of occupying the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. And if Israel will just give these areas back to the Palestinians, they will instantly lay down their stones and knives and Jews and Arabs will live together happily ever after.Of course though, every time Israel has “given back” land, the Arabs use it to launch further attacks on Israel, with Hamas tunnels and rockets from Gaza being the most obvious and recent example.Yet, strangely enough, most of the world’s leaders and media still buy into this theory.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said at Harvard University said last week, "a massive increase in settlements” has led to the current "frustration and violence."But that concept is as flawed as the failed peace process itself.The Arab-Jewish conflict was ablaze long before Israel came along. For example, Arab rioters with knives, pistols and rifles ran rampant through Jaffa on May 1, 1921, beating and murdering Jews and looting Jewish homes and stores. They killed 27 Jews and wounded another 150.And because similar conflicts rage in more than 25 other countries today – Afghanistan, Angola, Nigeria, Syria, to name but a few – the symptoms indicate a more serious problem.This is not a common cold to be cured by a Jewish country evacuating this piece of land or agreeing to that concession.It’s a cancer of the most virulent strain…spreading rapidly throughout the entire free world.Let’s face facts.This conflict is not primarily about land at all.Those malignant cells terrorizing Israel today are infected with the same disease as the forces destroying 2,000-year-old archaeological treasures in Syria, beheading, raping and massacring Muslims and non-Muslims across the Middle East and detonating suicide bombs in Turkey, Bali, Indonesia. And the list goes on.The bad guys – whom the world refuses to acknowledge as such – are out to impose radical Islam on the world. They want to obliterate Israel, America, Christianity and even other anti-Islamist Muslims – “infidels” in their eyes. And that includes innocent Palestinians suffering at the hands of Hamas & Company.In short, the entire civilized world is at risk.I’m talking about ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, the PKK, Hezbollah and dozens of similar organizations.An entire society – connected to a daily drip of vitriol and hate from birth, brainwashed by a well-oiled system of education, media and religious rhetoric – ready and willing to kill and die in the name of the anti-Semitic Jihad of Intolerance.And that’s why the current situation in Israel is not a localized “few days of rage,” “a wave of terror” or even “a Third Intifada.”What’s happening is yet another symptom of a global Third Jihad.The first jihad lasted from 622 – 750 AD, after Mohammad’s armies conquered all of Arabia and most of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain.The second jihad started in 1071, when Islamic armies conquered Constantinople and spread into Europe, India and further into Africa. It eventually began to peter out when the Muslim Ottoman army was vanquished at the Battle of Vienna in September 1683.And radical Islam’s pursuit of world domination has never stopped.Countries and cultures ignored the threat or reacted too slowly and were swallowed up by the relentless Islamic monster. So much so that there are now 57 countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC.The Third Jihad is upon us.This is the deeper, more sinister nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is not simply a war over settlements, land or the Temple Mount.It’s a religious battle. A clash of two diametrically opposed world views.Between the sanctity of life and the culture of death.And that definitely removes the conflict from the Middle East, away from the Israeli government, rolling responsibility to the feet of anyone who believes in a just and righteous world.Is that “more open-minded and hopeful”?Well, it could be. Continuing the cancer analogy, things will get worse until someone – preferably sane world leaders and a responsible media – makes the correct diagnosis.Ryan Mauro is an adjunct professor of homeland security and national security analyst for the Clarion Project. Watch the Clarion Project film "The Third Jihad” for free at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XUub1no1qw