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  Alexander, have you lived among the Arabs? Do you understand the simmering resentment they feel on behalf of their Palestinian cousins?
  
  Algeria and Yemen have huge tracts of fertile land on which they grow enough food to feed themselves and export the surplus. Egypt. Syria. Lebanon and Jordan also all export produce to the richer Arab states who have provided those countries with the technology to grow food in the desert.
  
  Saudi Arabia is the leading country in the region in terms of desert agriculture and has several universities with research going on into that field. 30 years ago they depended on the West for knowledge but the technology transfer has well and truly taken place. In 1990 I visited what was then the world's largest dairy farm. 100 miles south of Riyadh on the edge of the Empty Quarter. There's nothing we can teach them about arid agriculture and we can't sell them food because 1. We need all we can produce and more and 2. they can produce it more cheaply than we can. If you look at the packets of fresh herbs in certain supermarkets, they say Produce of Israel. In most cases, not true; they are grown in the West Bank and packaged in Israel and shipped from there.
  
  Abu Dhabi is at the forefront of cloud-seeding technology to make rain in the desert.
  
  They don't need us, they just need us to leave them alone.
  
  The Arabs can look after themselves. We should leave them to it.

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