Meengla
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I am afraid the Israelis will not enjoy what the next hundred years has in store for them. And when it comes, it will be of their own damn doing.
I remember having a good converation with my American friends. They asked me what did I think of an eventual solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. I told them that unless Israelis learn to think of themselves as part of the Middle East instead of as a 'frontier state of the West' they will eventually be engulfed by the greater and greater populations of non-Jews both in and outside of Israel. The days of packing up people in freight-train and hauling them off to concentration camps are over to solve the demographic problems.
Israel, with its superior technology, great universities, and many good institutions can be the real magnet for progress in the region. For that to happen the inherent sense of entitlement to the whole, or at least the best kind of land, 'between the seas' will have to be given up. For that to happen Israel needs to act like a true Semite nation, part of the Middle East instead of having delusions of grandeur like being the 'frontier of the West'. For that to happen Israelis need to look at the Palestinians as fellow human beings. It is not hard to do: It happened in South Africa. It can happen and work even better in Israel-Palestine.