A story popular in Lebanon at the time of its bank crisis tells of a scorpion on the bank of the Nile who asked a frog to ferry him to the other side.
"Oh no, " the frog said. You would sting me."
"That's ridiculous," the scorpion replied," because then I would drown."
Convinced, the frog took the scorpion on his back and began to swim the river. In midstream, the scorpion's lethal urge became too strong and he plunged his stinger into the frog's neck.
The sinking frog groaned, "Why, why?"
The scorpion gave final shrug and replied, "this is the Middle East:"
It was just in his nature…
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