Your not wrong, but I would just say that don't think that conflict is any different than the inca's, Azteca and Myans that permit to this day. Can anybody really say that Afirca hasn't had 4000 years of internal conflict that persit to this day.Sure, they've got significant tribal differences. But the view from 30,000 ft. is this: the Middle East has been beset by near continuous internal conflict for the last 4000 years. Jews were absent the region for roughly the last 2000 years of that (until 70 years ago), and their absence had no impact on that reality.