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When a nation’s options are narrowed by dramatic developments, it is left with two choices: gloating or denial.

Both affirm that this nation has resigned itself to a life on the margins of history.

We Arabs currently constitute a strong majority in West Asia and North Africa. Our territories are home to some of the world’s most significant natural resources; they are by most of the ancient world’s seas and are part of the most important trade and civilization routes known to humanity.

After the First World War, as borders and the balance of power were shifting, ideologies shaped the equations of the next phase in the “game of nations,” and it had been assumed that we would keep up with the transformations.