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consumption decline; (7) overpopulation of some countries and the
widening gap between a few very rich people and the many poor; and (8)
the failure to contain or resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The Middle East is the most troubled region of a turbulent world. Its
people are not at peace with one another or with themselves. They suspect
that outsiders do not understand them. We hope that this book has helped
you to know them better. Is this all? You will spend your adult lives in the
twenty-first century. We will share Spaceship Earth with the other world
powers, with Israeli Jews, Arabs, Iranians, Turks, Kurds, and Armenians, as
well as with a few billion other people. How will you get along with them?