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The writer from Egypt should know that Egypt is governed by an obscure and n outdated dictator. The Middle East is next in priority for its smooth transition from its stagnation as a backwater in a remote corner of medieval history to the first world. It is also crucially linked to the Central Asian Muslim Republics. Both regions are destinations f vital interest to the major world players, namely: America, European Union and the emerging China. The resurgence of the Muslim world would open challenges to the major players to bring their expertise to modernize both regional people and new institutions. All petty hurdles and roadblocks would get leveled. When British started modernizing India, the old rivalries and petty influence interests disappeared like the tail of a snake. Likewise the menace of Osama’s terrorist Al Qaida and the bigoted Taliban would phase out without a whimper. Let us discuss Iran and Israel. Iran’s theocratic rulers have lost face before the whole world in the rigging of Ahamadinejad election. The rulers have crushed dissent making the Iranians disillusioned with the theocracy. Ahmadinejad is puffed up with a false euphoria of an occult saint, who the Iranians rulers dream, would hoist Iran as a regional superpower. Saints do no such things and the 99 per cent Sunni Muslims simply scoff at the Shiite Iran. For five hundred years the Ottomans kept Iran isolated in their backyard. Iran’s only attraction and importance comprises as a trading country. Britain called it a honey pot. Iran is more a threat to its dishonest ruling class than to Israel. Now let us look at Israel. Israel’s founding father, Ben-Gurion, rejected oath of allegiance to God with a bad taste in the Rabbis mouth and replaced it with an obscure “Rock of Israel”. This proved a suicidal error in that it was an insult to God and was a blaspheme in the sight of the Jews. Moreover, the Zionist needed to circumvent exile to create Israel, which again was a non-Jewish act. Everything in Israel is UN Jewish. Take one instance of the Knesset. Knesset in Judaism comprises a place of worship and learning of Torah. Israeli Knesset, as everyone knows, is a den of culprits. Israel is no more than a Trojan horse in an unfamiliar location. Jews would soon feel obliged to look for an option to the defamed Israel. This said; let us go back to the much belated transition of the Muslim world to the first world. Do Iran and Israel have any place in the larger picture? The question is left to you to answer