The Middle East seems too unstable to really deep dive into the real estate development business, or interject ourselves right into the center of a violent ethnic conflict. But I understand the sentiment.

Material prosperity is so tempting, but the problems in the Middle East are moral and spiritual, running very deep and intractable. In a word Biblical.

You’re dealing with radical Muslims that might not tolerate success since it would be an affront to their failures and Zionist utopians whose doctrinaire grand designs might not sync with the rest of the developed world.