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on top of living with unwanted neighbors, the people of the middle east found themselves being ruled by a revolving door of unsavory, incompetent, and corrupt military and civilian tyrants. in 1949, the arabs were still more humiliated by the wholesale eviction of palestinians from the newly created state of israel, and their fury grew worse with each military triumph of the jewish state. during the six decades that followed, the region experienced 12 armed rebellions or full-scale wars and a bloody overthrow of five regimes—a constant and destructive turmoil that kept the area, except for the oil-rich persian gulf, both backward and poor.