"These are the facts, Arabs. What are you going to do about them?"

That's the question Muhammad Omar Al-Amoudi asks in this article in Arab News, which touts itself as Saudi Arabia's first English daily newspaper (the story was linked at Instapundit).

Here are the facts - and remember, these facts appear in an Arab newspaper:

Israel’s GNP exceeds $100 billion while the oil revenue of all the Arab countries combined is barely $113 billion. The average annual income of an Israeli is about 17 times higher than that of an Arab. The Arab’s average annual income is $1,000 while the Israeli average is $17,000. Twelve percent of Israelis are employed in agriculture and another 12 percent in business while the remaining 76 percent are employed in the industrial sector. The average spent on scientific research per year per person in Israel is $110. The Arab world, in contrast, spends a pathetic $2. Israel’s leading electronic industry manufactures several times more than all the Arab countries combined produce. Israel exports $7.2 billion worth of IT products annually and aims to push it up to $12 billion in a decade. As a proportion of its total population, Israel boasts the highest number of engineers and scientists in comparison to any other country.

There is more, but that's the guts of it. What Al-Amoudi wants to know is, what is the future going to be for Arabs? Their economies are stagnant or shrinking.

However, the question he asks about the facts, "What are you going to do about them?" is not altogether heartening. If the Arabs feel marginalized by Israel, or even inferior to Israel, one solution would be to work hard, pull themselves up by their bootstraps and equal of surpass Israel's accomplishments.

But the other solution is just to destroy Israel. And like Al-Amoudi, we are very interested in what the answer will be.