Embed from Getty Images The old man surveys his difficult situation. He is a famous man in a hot place. Through the blasted walls of the typically middle class Arab apartment where he is he sees a ruined city which he himself ruined: dust, rubble, fires. He made a calculated bet a few years ago – badly – that it would work out and victory against the “pigs and monkeys” (Koran), the unbelievers was at hand. Jerusalem – Al Quds – would be his and he’d be the new messiah himself. The Jews would – as promised by his forefathers for nearly a century – be thrown into the sea. Lately though, after mo…