pardon for the loazit

there is also another small thing the crusaders didn't have:nuclear weapons

everytime i meet with someone abroad who says he wishes to destroy israelas a jewish state i explain to him that even if the arabs fail to make peace with the fairly rational and secular jews who are the leading force in israel now, they will be left in the future with the jewish equivalent of hamas and hizballah.

i then explain to them that these men will not
hesitate to destroy the whole middle east (with radiation all across europe) rather than surrender to muslim rule.

you'll be surprised how effective this argument is.

This, by the way, was the nuclear threat tactics taken by Pakistan to retaliate India from opening a war supposedly with superior military force.
That is , the "I will blast everything off, I care about nothing " sort of statements.
That worked perfectly