Christ (Muhammed?), I’m going to be labelled a “warblogger” if I don’t shut my mouth up about yogurt-eating Arabs and their falafel loving Jewish cousins…but, anyone notice how it can be argued that all the states of the old Fertile Crescent (Mesopatamia + the Levant) are ruled by ethno-religious minorities? Iraq-Sunni Arabs (25-30% of the population), Syria-the Alawites (10% of the population), Jordan-the indigenous Bedouins through the Hashemite dynasty (30% of the population, most of the rest consists of Palestinians), and Israel, ruled by Ashkenazi Jews (someone, Diane, help me out with the numbers, I’d estimate that 35% of Israel is old-line Ashkenazi, with Russians, Sephardic/Oriental Jews and Arabs forming the balance).
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