re: #66 Obdicut

That doesn’t really make a hell of a lot of sense. Obviously, nobody was going to create a ‘modern’ society 2000 years ago. Arab culture and science was, for hundreds and hundreds of years, more advanced than the West, and they preserved and improved on many intellectual traditions that otherwise would have been lost. Without the Arab world’s contributions, we wouldn’t have had the Enlightenment; without the Enlightenment, Israel would not be a modern society.

OK, they haven’t managed to create a modern society in 100 years,