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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not that Arabs are delicate flowers themselves, but for the most part they’ve never had problems with unity despite the disparate regions they live in (North Africa, Levant, the Gulf) and disparate religions (Muslim, Christian, Druze, until the 79s Jewish). Iraq, Lebanon, Syria are perfect examples. Iran, Mossad, and America tried to divide those three respective countries and failed despite “civil wars”.

The Levant is kinda like the US. It only mattered how much money you have. Nobody cared what religion you were or if you were an immigrant. It was always a crossroads for merchants, salesmen, caravans, European ex pats, sailors. The Brit and French and Armenians all lived in the Levant without problem. The Jews also lived in the Levant in Palestine without problem for 100 years before the Balfour declaration. 
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Not sure about that, Arabs have never been good at unity. They are inherently tribal, but were slapped together in dysfunctional groups by western countries drawing up borders with no thought to anything other than their own strategic interests. No Arab country is stable without authoritarian rule, e.g. Iraq and Libya. [/quote]

They’re actually pretty good at unity and don’t have much Rigidity when it comes to ethnicity or background. These are countries where even the most insane incel terrorist groups would accept American or Chinese  terrorists if they are down. They literally don’t care if someone’s Arab or not.

That also makes them good for military reasons because they don’t have the gender or race divisions.

The biggest divisions in the Middle East have always been ideology  and political. Secular vs religious, Sharia law vs non sharia law, Pan Arab vs Islamist, socialist vs capitalist. It’s things  of that nature: all ideological divides. That’s why I mean it’s kinda like the US. There are large cultural and ideological divides over how things should run. They will argue within an argument just because and there are Arabic channels devoted to old men arguing about everything including small religious minutiae.   Indeed, if all the Arab countries were democracies, I would imagine nobody would be able to finish a term because everyone would complain about the guy in power and say he sucks and doesn’t know what he’s doing and it’s time to remove him. In fact that is exactly what happened in Egypt with Morsi. Democracy would cause a revolving door of leadership unless one is clever enough a soft launch authoritarian lite leadership like Netanyahu
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