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The Middle East conflict has nothing in the least to do with any so-called oppression. It is entirely due to the fact that so few Jews being so much more powerful than so many Arabs humiliates and emasculates them. Because Israel exists, every Arab man feels like a capon. Indeed, if the Israelis converted to Islam tomorrow they could treat the Palestinians in a typically barbaric Islamic manner and no one anywhere would have any problem with that. This is entirely about a wounded sense of entitlement.

Once upon a time, practically every great city in the world outside of China, India, Kyoto, and Constantinople was Muslim. Once upon a time the Muslim world was civilized. But since 1600, when the Muslim world decided to turn its back on science and learning and modernity it has become as decadent and corrupted as a family too rich too long. Now it is incapable of producing anything higher than the car bomb. It exports only oil and terrorism, producing nothing requiring brainpower. It is natural that a civiliation that utterly lacking in creativity, that incapable of assuming any responsibility for its actions would respond only with spite and envy at a world that passes it by. Israel is technologically superior because it has a creative, intelligent, forward looking, brave and innovative people. The Arab world can only buy machines that they haven't the competence to use or maintain much less build for themselves because they are lazy, by turns boastful and cringing, fundamentally incompetent, childish, venal, and crippled by a bloated grandiosity. Societies have personalities and some personalities are just plain better than others.