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bhikkhu

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7. They'd become more secular and more prosperous

Reply to ThomWV (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2011, 02:49 PM

Dec 2011

and more of an influential regional power. Which would be all well and good for the people there, and probably even for most of the people in the region...except for Israel. Being such a minority, and with the history, Israel can't afford to have a prosperous neighbor, in a region that has "lost its fear", so to speak. Or at least that's the current thinking.

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