Reply #21: Israel right now is just a blip in Middle East History.

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It's small and has existed for less than 60 years. If you look at the history of the Middle East, there is no reason to assume it's going to be around in another 60 years (except now Israel has nukes). Who knows? What is now the state of Israel could become a Greater Israel, incorporating Jews and Arabs alike into a democratic secular state. Or if could become a fascist garrison state. Or maybe it will fall and be incorporated into some sort of new Arab entity. That doesn't necessarily imply the Jews would be genocidally wiped out, but they might become a minority in a Moslem sea. They have survived that in the past.

The Crusaders took Jerusalem in the early 1100s. Saladin took it back in 1187, and it took eight centuries before it slipped out of Arab hands again.