"in palestine at least, Sunni and Shiite get along just fine as long as there is nothing to exacerbate matters."

Mack/Misophist,

Perhaps that's because the Palestinians, like almost all Arabs, are Sunni.

The only country in the Middle East that it dominated by the Shiites is Iran, a non-Arab, ethnically Persian, country.

The only Arab country with a significant minority of Shiites is Iran's next door neighbor, Iraq.

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