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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Left unmentioned is how Turkish (Ottoman) and European imperial ambitions in the Arab world subjugated the people for centuries. If you subjugate people, deny them education and opportunities for advancement, they're not likely to advance.

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i am Irish too and Irish faced prejudice for over a century in the US, JFK had to give a speech promising he was going to be a President who was Catholic but not a Catholic President, whereas others trumpeted how they were going to be a "Christian" President.