My wife lived in Israel on and off for years, I got to visit her for awhile during her dissertation work in the West Bank. Only a few blocks of Tel Aviv deserve the "modern Middle Eastern country" label in my mind. And even then it wasn't nearly as impressive as I thought. Haifa is a lovely town though :)

Maybe that is just the dregs of a time when they used to be half decent at propaganda ;)

I take it back. They are smart with their hacking and that’s where it ends.

Yea, US propaganda is the same way. It's not subtle, it's just so many people are onboard with it they don't really care.