| Rath said: Well having a country established right on top of you probably does build up a national identity pretty fast. |
Needing an excuse to demonise said country also helps to speed up the identity building process, I've heard. As does not being allowed to live in any other Arab state.
I'm sure that the situation could have been dealt with much more easily if Egypt and Syria, two real countries, had offered to take care of the Arabs in Palestine, but that might have made it harder to justify bombing Israel. We couldn't have that, could we?








