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Terror Networks
The Near East’s costly wrong bets
2017-09-24
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As uncertainty engulfs a bleeding Near East, besieged by regional and global powers each pursuing its own agenda, dormant ambitions and sensitivities are waking up and finding the current situation suitable to express themselves.

To begin, such dormant ambitions and suppressed sensitivities would have never emerged had it not been for the huge regional disorder and radical change of international balance of power.

It is true that domestic consensus towards ’national’ identities and boundaries is not guaranteed these days, even in western democracies that values human rights
Posted by:Fred

#4  Thoese days, pragmatic interests necessitated interaction and coexistence, even assimilation. Moreover, internal migrations, as well as population exchange sometimes, becaome almost common phenomena within thatis great political, social and economic space.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-24 15:54  

#3  Phenotype is determined by interplay between genes and environment. Environment triggers expression of some genes, while suppressing others. What it cannot do is activate non-existent genes to "make silk purses from saw's ears".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-09-24 05:37  

#2  ...genetic not cultural.

So does this mean that you are not an 'Asian lactose intolerant' denier, and agree that human genetics play a much greater role that many would admit ?

School milk money, who needs it ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-09-24 04:45  

#1  I believe tribal mindset is genetic not cultural.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-09-24 04:39  

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