For 3000 years, the lands between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea have oscillated between two modes of government:
1) independent Jewish state;
2) subordinate part of somebody else's empire.
Jewish state; somebody else's empire. That's it. Back and forth.
Many Canadians don’t know how reverentially the Dutch people care for the graves of Canadians who fell during the liberation of the Netherlands. I have always found this deeply moving.