Middle East wisdom from Yoram Ettinger, Israel’s onetime consul general in Houston:
“…..the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict does not depend on Israel or on the Americans. It is a derivative of the Middle East as it has been for 14 centuries. One shouldn’t ignore the fact that for 1,400 years, since the appearance of Islam, there has not been intra-Arab/Moslem peace, intra-Arab/Moslem compliance with intra- Arab/Moslem agreements, intra-Arab/Moslem ratification of all borders and not a single Arab/Moslem democracy.
“Terror has been an integral key element of intra-Arab/Moslem policy. In defiance of such an entrenched reality, some of us wish that the Arabs would bestow upon the Jewish State that which they have yet to accord to one another. I wish that it would be a logical expectation, but it is not.”
Via Seraphic Secret and Israel Matzav
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
That is certainly true. The dynamics of intra-Arab relationships are amazing. But when they focus on common enemy, they tend to forget their differences of opinion.
Ah, maybe so, politically, but militarily, at least according to the histories I’ve read, they’ve been unable to coordinate effectively against Israel. Too much jealousy among the leaders. And they have enough trouble coordinating their own militaries.