To the contrary. the leaders of these feudal states in that area have no idea of becoming democratic and there is no possible way for us to get the message of democracy to their people. I do believe that the vast majority of their population has no bone to pick with Israel and it is their leadership that has a fanatic. selfish interest in keeping the area disturbed. as well as giving themselves the best bargaining position between East and West. A case in point. is the socalled refugee problem. This is not as much a refugee situation as it has become a tool for world sympathy at the expense of the wretched -people. I would be the last person to deny these political exiles the right to a good standard of living. but many of the inhabitants of all of these surrounding states live in about the same abject poverty. It is the fact that this particular group. who left because of the mistaken idea that they would be on the winning side by leaving. and having suffered the fortunes of war. find themselves exiles.