We examine the history between the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror, tracing a timeline from the earliest stories of the Promised Land stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates in Hebrew mythology, to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the development of Israeli Unit 8200 and the Talpiot programs, the opening of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1973, the 1982 “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” paper by Oded Yinon, the founding of Israeli telephone billing software company Amdocs in 1982, the Hasbara propaganda program following the Israeli Lebanon War, the arrest of spy Jonathan Pollard, the game theory models of Talmudic scholar Dr. Robert J. Aumann, the founding of Purdue Pharma by the Sackler family, the flood of Hollywood Holocaust films, the 1994 CALEA Telecommunications Act, the 1994 Predator drone debut from General Atomics, the 1997 founding of the PNAC think tank, the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and the highly contested election of U.S. President George W. Bush, culminating in an examination of the global events that would lead to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent predictable reactions that launched the Global War on Terror.