
I think even that is optimistic.
Via JPost:
Speaking on Thursday by videoconference to the President’s conference “Facing Tomorrow,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel and its Western allies must “continue the proliferation of freedom” and “stop the proliferation of deadly weapons.”
Netanyahu said he was very optimistic about the long-term future, calling our era the “knowledge century.” However, he expressed deep skepticism that what he dubbed the Arab, Muslim and Iranian world were ready to benefit fully from the Western notion of freedom and the newest technological discoveries.
The prime minister said that he did not believe a major mature change could occur in the Arab-Muslim world for “several decades.” Although by the end of the century, Netanyahu was confident that “militant Islam would be defeated” and that even these nations would turn towards democracy and Western values, he described the central question as being what to do until then.
