But they had been ruling over this land for about three hundred years.
Bahrain's Sunni royal family has been ruling over a Shia majority population since the eighteenth century, to the latter's chronic dissatisfaction.
It may be that Israeli and Palestinian leaders are incapable of surprising anyone anymore, in which case the logic on the ground will prevail: Israel will gradually absorb the whole West Bank, so, together with Israel proper, a Jewish minority will be ruling over an Arab majority.
At any rate, if more Americans, high as well as low, had known a little more about Iran they would have been less surprised first by the deposition of the shah (who had been ruling over an "island of stability," according to President Carter) and then by the hostage crisis of November 1979, that rehearsal for 9/11, as Meyer grimly calls it.
Was that knowledge that you were going to be ruling over everyone upmost in your mind?
"They are a terrorist organization that have used terrorist means, violence and committed human rights crimes in order to establish a territory that they are ruling over.
He may be ruling, but he's ruling over a commonwealth with the lowest median income in the country, where too many counties have infant mortality rates comparable to those of the Third World.
Judging by Israel's culture, national symbols, and national heroes, it is evident that one people is ruling over another (and this is even before we start talking about the West Bank and Gaza).
A decade or so later, Anders began appearing in Germany again, only this time he was espousing quasi-anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about interest-crippled monetary systems, the origin of AIDS, and a group called the Illuminati who have apparently been ruling over the world since the beginning of time.
