Originally Posted by baloney_detector

All of this may be true, but the same could be said to some extent of the forming of the United States...and, perhaps, of the formation all nations in the Western Hemisphere.

And, I'm sure you are aware that this history isn't a solution to today's Israeli-Palestinian issue.

And, it could be argued that had the Arabs won the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, there might possibly be Jewish refugee camps in the world today instead of Palestinian refugee camps...or far worse.

Perhaps the Arabs aught to have accepted the 1947 UN partition plan since, doing so, we might not be having this discussion today.

Originally Posted by baloney_detector

It is actually quite ironic that, even with Iran's "theocracy," Iran's structure of government is arguably the most democratic form of government in the Middle East today outside of Israel and, possibly, today's Iraq.

Go figure...