The Middle East has been a region of conflict for centuries, and during most of that time, Israel and the Jews had nothing to do with it.

As a U.S.-led coalition comes together to protect shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf, Iraq tells Israel and other foreign nations to stay away.

Another voice of reason emerges in the Arab world, with a former Iraqi parliamentarian extending an olive branch to Israel and rejecting hypocritical Palestinian leaders.

Would any members of the the 2,000-year-old Jewish community who were kicked out of Iraq in 1948 be permitted to return if they so desired?

Reports recently emerged of secret visits by three Iraqi delegations to Israel, providing yet another example of the warming ties between Israel and Arab nations.

'Like the Jewish people, we have always survived. These experiences inspire us to hold onto our culture and identity,' Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad said at the Knesset.

This is just one of many stories about the persecution that Jews have suffered in Arab countries.

This is just one of many stories about the persecution that Jews have suffered in Arab countries. 

Iran has transferred missiles to proxy forces in Iraq, which could threaten Israel and other targets in the Middle East if Iran is attacked.

'There are a lot of Iraqi people on my side, and I believe they are happy I am here,' Miss Iraq said in Israel.

Israel is using social media to change the way the Arab world perceives the Jewish state, this time with an eye on Iraq.

The Palestinians are discriminated against not by Israel, but by their Arab and Muslim brethren. Arab hypocrisy is once again on display, but who who is watching?

Palestinian leadership continues to glorify terrorists and disgraced "leaders," this time erecting a memorial to and naming a street after the "Butcher of Baghdad," Saddam Hussein.

Knowing the truth about the Middle East, Iraqis expressed support for Israel in their struggle against the Palestinians.

'I know that like the Jewish people, we have always survived. These experiences inspire us to hold onto our culture and identity,' Yazidi refugee Nadia Murad said at the Knesset.

Keramlis, a Christian town on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq, fell to ISIS in August 2014, sending its inhabitants fleeing. The town was retaken by Iraq forces three weeks ago as part of the push for Mosul, but most of its homes were destroyed in the process.

The push to form a safe haven for minority groups, centered on the Nineveh Plains, is gaining ground.

In a bid to land a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Iraqi government is touting thousands of years of Jewish life in its country, ignoring the destruction of Iraqi Jewry during the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In what could be dubbed a 'workplace accident,' an accidental explosion killed 16 Islamic State terrorists.

Haidar Sabi blamed the Arab focus on the Palestinian issue as one of the main reasons for the destruction of Iraq and concluded that Iraqis must begin to put themselves first, and focus on rebuilding their identity and their country.

The indigenous Christian population in the Middle East has been largely decimated by Islamic forces sweeping through the region, leaving them in a precarious situation as Israel has become the only safe country for Christians in the Middle East.

ISIS is still targeting the Yazidis and other minorities in the Middle East in its quest for an Islamic caliphate.

The Commission of Inquiry on Syria issued its first report last week in which it accused ISIS of crimes against humanity. The UN estimates that some 5,000 Yazidi men were killed by ISIS terrorists and thousands more people, mostly women and children, were taken into captivity.

After releasing a video purporting to show fighters blowing up a 2,500-year-old temple in Iraq, ISIS terrorists have threatened to destroy the Egyptian pyramids.

The Farhud in Baghdad, Iraq was a pogrom, or "violent dispossession" carried out against the Jewish community on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1 and 2, 1941.