Interesting backgroud on the Middle East...

I was watching a documentary on the Middle East in the years after WWI and one thing that struck me was that a commission (British I think, but I might be remembering wrongly) went through the area interviewing the people and found that over 80% of the Muslims living in what we'd now consider Palestine considered themselves to be Syrians back around 1920 and wanted their land to be a part of a Greater Syria.

No big news about that, I guess -- I just thought it was kind of interesting.