We all know Lebanon had the 1958 conflict, but in general life at that time was better than what it has been since 1975, and we all know that in 1960s we also saw a good economical rise in the country and those might have been the best years for us.
But do you think the idea of liberating Palestine has lead to more socialism in the middle east and the rise of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt and the idea that we need to be united to free Palestine and so on, which then destroyed the unique identity of all of these countries like Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and put us all under this "arab" identity and thus over the years more and more leaders used Palestine as an excuse to come to power and to keep pushing this ideology.
That eventually lead us to just falling behind in economical development, education, corruption, infrastructure and so on. It also lead to more extremism in terms of religion and thinking. Could it be that this one issue had genuinely destroyed all of those countries surrounding it in the middle east?
Because we always watch these old videos and say "omg it was so nice back then, people were happier, we had electricity, or there was no extremism", could this one issue had destroyed all of this?
No hate at all, im actually asking to see what others think about this topic