The Egyptians should be a lot more careful about fomenting hatred and war with Israel than they appear to be. One dirty nuke targeted on the Aswan High Dam would make Egypt uninhabitable essentially forever. What was not washed out to sea in the flood would be poisoned by the radioactivity. That’s something Nasser did not take into account when he started his nuke/dirty bomb projects in the mid-50s with hired German scientists. It’s something the Egyptians have not taken into account in starting their various wars aiming at Jewish genocide or maintaining their atrocious antisemitic propaganda for the last three decades.

As for the Palis, I think they are not really interested in an actual, independent state. What they want is to kill Jews. If they can do that, they are content to be ruled, abused, robbed, and oppressed by any Muslim tyrant who comes along. The Palestinian Arabs have no real history or goals of their own, only a distorted, lying mirror image of the experiences of Jews and Zionists that they have concocted out of whole cloth.

This could happen in the foreseeable future, but “could happen” only in the sense that Lucy Lawless could be about to ring my doorbell and ask if she could come up and get out of these wet clothes.

Decades of unremitting hatred and violence have resulted in an Israel that, with all its faults, is by any reasonable standard an open and prosperous society–and a Palestinian culture that is vicious, hate-filled, and miserable, that has no real reason for existing except vicious hatred.

This seems to give the Palestinians little pause and I wonder if we can’t conclude that they have in fact created the society they want.

I remember when Sadat was assassinated, and our naive media waitied for the millions of Egyption mourners to arrive that never materialized.
Sadat was villified in all of the Arab lands for daring to talk peace with the Jews, and was murdered for doing so.