Today, Syria is not a country anymore. It is divided between military factions waging an unspeakable war against each other. Iraq is totally torn into pieces, the central government has no credibility, no army, no perspective. Lebanon is hardly keeping its integrity, West Bank Palestinian Authority is being held hostage by the Israeli occupation, and Palestinians in Gaza serve as cannon fodder. The only democratic government of Egypt has been overthrown by a brutal military coup. Israel has gone paranoid over its security and no one seems capable of stopping its criminal aggressiveness.The Kurdish Autonomous Region of Northern Iraq is under serious threat, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is gaining ground, whereas Iran and the Shiite militias are eagerly expecting the weakening of the first independent democratically structured Kurdish state to overcome its administration.Meanwhile, more than a million refugees from Syria are located in Turkey; most of them have been living here for more than two years. A quarter of this population is taken care of in camps, whose standards have been continuously praised by the U.N. organisations and different independent charity associations. The remaining refugees are all given a "taxpayer regimental" therefore they are able to open small businesses and continue their lives. At a time when a few hundred clandestine refugees entering EU countries is considered a terrible catastrophe, hundreds of thousands of permanent Syrian refugees in Turkey largely go unnoticed.How come that in a time of such political turmoil, such generalised major scale warfare has been possible? Obviously, if you follow the major Western mass media, it would be difficult to understand why. All analyses point out the role played by different regional actors, without really underlining the fact that the Neo-con U.S. policy under George W. Bush presidency, supported by a number of major EU governments, had ignited the fire which is burning the Middle East. The hesitations and volt-faces of Obama administration have done the rest.In addition to all that, Israeli policies on the occupation of the West Bank and coercion of Gaza have received unconditional support by the U.S., but the latest bombings of Palestinians and the killing of nearly 2,000 people, almost exclusively civilians including women and children, have also created a major wave of popular protestations all over Europe, some overtly anti-Semitic. As reprehensible as it is, we witness a very dangerous and general movement. But if you read articles like the one written by Steven Cook, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a proficient expert in Middle East politics, you will discover with amazement that the culprit for the nascent anti-Semitic movement is... the Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Incidentally, Prime Minister Erdoğan has been probably the only political leader in the region to officially declare that anti-Semitism was a crime against humanity.Woe! Criticising Israel policy over Gaza bombings cannot be forgiven. Premier Erdoğan is anti-Semitic, so is Turkey, a country where no pogroms took place since the early Ottoman times. This extremely Jdanovist style of attacking Turkey and its premier does not bode well for the understanding of the Middle East. But so long as the Western mass media will not decide to go through a deep and comprehensive self-criticism, the war in the region will hardly be really analysed, understood and perhaps prevented.