Challenger, et al,
And here again, is an example of trying to play the victim.
Individual Mental Capability and Intelligence ("supermen" --- "superior intelligences") are not characteristics that we can definitely explain the source; although we think it is primarily an inherited quality. There are things that can definitely detract from the ability to use the higher order mental functions two or more standard deviations above the norm, in given areas of understanding. But again, we don't know how to even measure intelligence. It is one of those attributes that we know it when we see it. But just as we can spot influential thinkers across various disciplines
(Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, Hypatia of Alexandria, Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Isaac Newton, Mozart, Max Plank, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, etc...), so it is that we can spot obvious voids in contributions.
Whatever it is that the Arab Palestinians want, they have to present a solution to the Israelis.
Or perhaps these Zionist "supermen" can get their collective "superior intelligences" together and present a solution to the poor befuddled Palestinians, given the number of Nobel prizes they've accumulated over the years and their superior level of development (18th I think you said it was)?
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Up until ≈ the 13th Century
(the Islamic Golden Age was the 8th - 13th Century), the Arabs World was the center of technical science and mathematics. Something definitely happened. The Islamic World consists of of more then 20% of the global population. But after the 13th Century, contributes almost nothing. In the last 100 years, the Jewish Population (15B) has contributed more to civilization than the entire Global Muslim Population (400B) in the last 7 Centuries.
We do not know if the correlation has anything to do with productivity of the Islamic culture, but clearly, it can be said that their is a gap (World-wide) that directly correlates to the lack of productivity in the Arab Palestinians. And that world-wide observation has nothing to do with Israeli Occupation. It is the same observation everywhere.
Given that the Israelis have presented the opportunity to the Arab Palestinians to make the first overtures for peace, would it not be in the best interest of the "poor befuddled Palestinians"
(as you describe them) to put their best foot forward?
Most Respectfully,
R