This has been going on for a very long time. Reagan put U.S. Marines in Lebanon to hopefully preserve a peace of sorts after the elected Christian president was assassinated. The Muzzies then blew up the Marine barracks and killed over 400 of them. We then went to a hands off position. That was about 25 years ago.
Actually Reagan intervened to end the siege of Beirut which, had it gone on would have ended with the destruction of the PLO and Hizbullah. We sent in “peacekeepers” before there was peace. Then negotiated the terms of the PLOs excape to Tunis, with a living, breathing Arafat. Later his VP crowned Arafat a peacemaker. A bad idea all around.