>>24631321
>The most obvious counterexample is the behavior of the Sunni nations. They are all pro-Israel and led by secular juntas.
What's your primary example?

>but they understand that ideological wars against Jews will just collapse their semi-functional secular states, so they sell out the Dar al-Islam over and over again.
The phenomenon you described only demonstrates the machiavellianism of the leadership. The craziness I described isn't really referring to anti-Israeli sentiment as much as it is referring simply to might makes right authortarianism. The leadership of these countries are playing the "short game" to hold onto power, whether that means attacking or aligning with the Israelis depending on the immediate circumstances. For Iran, their situation dictates that to hold onto power, they need to be hardliners, and their situation vis a vis to Sunni population makes their situation apparently more desperate from a sheer demographic perspective. The Shia faction have fewer chess pieces on the board, and are outnumbered, so they have to act more risky. Their power hungry leaders never think about the consequences of mass deception and propaganda, and the concept of truth is a joke to them, which leads to their long term downfall.

The same can be said of the other type of mohammadans as well as the talmudists themselves, although each one faces a somewhat different immediate situation. None of them have even bothered to find out the truth, so they all languish in ignorance and dysgenics brought on by their backwards primitive cultures. That's also why they are so stagnant in the first place. They only really acquire weapons and expertise by obtaining it from other countries that know a thing or two about finding out the truth. It's the difference between someone who knows how to catch a fish (in this case, generate new R&D) and those who are only sold fish in exchange for goods and services. I wouldn't wish this on anyone, but sadly, the entire middle east is nothing but a "playground" for proxy wars and for superior cultures from outside of the region selling weapons to both sides as long as they can make a profit.

>either because their elites are visionless cynical power-holders who simply want to keep holding power, or because they want to play a very very long game and outlast Israel and would prefer this to being subordinate to a regionally hegemonic Iran.
They're not playing a very, very long game. That might be you projecting your sophisticated ideas on them. It's nothing but warlords in reality who will live and die by the sword. They have no investment or interest in the truth. When they most likely die in a coup d'etat by another warlord, they won't know why. It will hit them from nowhere. There won't be any noticeable increase in quality of life, no matter how many times this happens, as long as this totalitarianism predominates and rises to the top. But this seems to be dictated by larger geopolitical realities right now.