SHULTZ WARNS OF RELIGIOUS WAR LED BY ISIS, IRAN: The greatest danger facing Israel and the world today is the war being waged by ISIS and Iran in the name of religion, former USA secretary of state George Shultz warned in Jerusalem earlier this week. After centuries of the international community’s separating religion and war, Shultz said, the two are becoming intertwined in the 21st century. “You can’t tear religion and war apart from each other, and now with ISIS and Iran, war has a religious background to it,” he said. “It’s very dangerous. It is something we need to think through carefully and need to demolish. One of the things you have to watch for with Iran having all this money from the lifting of sanctions, and with them having Russian support, is that Hezbollah will be putting weapons in Lebanon without a doubt,” he added. “We have to be clear that a person who puts a weapon in a civilian location like a school or hospital is a war criminal. The person who takes him out is not a war criminal, but rather a person who says, ‘We cannot allow these sanctuaries to be established.’” PM Netanyahu paid tribute to Shultz’s great friendship and support for Israel. “International terrorism is not the result of the activities of individuals but the work of terror states,” Netanyahu said, saying that when Shultz and the USA had understood this, it had made a significant difference in combating terrorist threats. “That thinking is what is required today,” he added. (J. Post)