I will take Moonbeam's position in the seemingly unending conflict in the Middle East.
The Israelis in forming the State of Israel did so in a generally barren land that was of no real value at the time of settlement. They bought and paid at a premium for then worthless land from anyone that wanted to sell it. (Do the descendants of the Indians that sold Manhattan for some shells also have a valid and lingering claim to the Big Apple? American Indian Jihad anyone?)
When the Arab states all decided to attack the new State with all of their might, some hapless Palestinians (actually Trans-Jordanians, etc. as there never was, nor was there even any intent to have a separate Palestinian state) decided that the grass was greener elsewhere and left voluntarily. Remember, the Arab states expelled their Jewish citizens and other non-Muslim populations under penalty of death, while Israel never forced any local resident to leave.
Over 60 years the Israelis have defended this sliver of land and through hard work and communal socialism prospered way beyond the surrounding states.
This has caused great feelings of jealousy, inadequacy and self-hate in the surrounding Arab and non-Arab Muslim governments and populations. These populations are insanely jealous, so jealous that they will destroy the object of their jealousy. They cannot overcome the feelings of inadequacy until the people that they could not conquer or stop from great achievements are destroyed.
Self-hate, insane jealousy and an inability to accept liberal and empowering self-reform is the cause of the problems in the Mid-East. It is the singular region that demonstrates Moonbeam's hypothesis over and over again.
