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Your chart on the gains in democracy in the region after the Arab Spring shows that the Arabs are modernizing except for a few extremist pockets generally used as Iranian proxies against the West and westernizing Arab states.

Theocratic Iran is causing trouble and fighting secularism in the region. It should be noted that Jordanian Air Force was shooting down Iranian missiles to protect Israel. Theocratic Iran is not the future of the Middle East and young Iranians know this.

Theocratic Israel is not the future of Israel and Netanyahu is delaying the inevitable which is declaring Israel a modern multicultural secular nation. There are currently millions of Arab and Christian Israeli citizens creating a vibrant modern state. It is past time for Israel to separate church and state.

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