Food for thought...

Winston Churchil as quoted in the book "Closing the Ring"

“The Greeks rival the Jews in being the

 most politically minded race in the world. No matter how forlorn their

circumstances or how grave the peril to their country, they are always

divided into many parties, with many leaders who fight among themselves

with desperate vigour. It has been well said that wherever there are

three Jews it will be found that there are two Prime Ministers and one

leader of the Opposition. The same is true of this other ancient race,

whose stormy and endless struggle for life stretches back to the

fountains of spring of human thought. No two races have set such mark

upon the world. Both have shown a capacity for survival, in spite of

unending perils and sufferings from external oppressors, matched only by

 their own ceaseless feuds, quarrels and convulsions. The passage of

several thousand years sees no change in their characteristics and no

diminution of their original vitality. They have survived in spite of

all that the world could do against them, and all they could do against

themselves, and each of them from angles so different have left us the

inheritance of their genius and wisdom. No two cities have counted more

with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion,

philosophy and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and

 culture. Centuries of foreign rule and indescribable, endless

oppression leave them still living, active communities and forces in the

 modern world, quarreling among themselves with insatiable vivacity.

Personally I have always been on the side of both, and believed in their

 invincible power to survive internal strife and the world tides

threatening their extinction.