Interesting that the capitilized letters spell out MASONS.

according to Wikipedia, both Israel AND Palestine are examples of nation-states... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

Just a few paragraphs from teh site, for information pur poses only.  See link for more examples.

Israel

Israel's definition of a nation state differs from other countries as its concept of a nation state is based on the Ethnoreligious group (Judaism) rather than solely on ethnicity, while the ancient mother language of the Jews, Hebrew, was revived as a unifying bond between them as a national and official language.

Israel was founded as a Jewish state in 1948, and the country's Basic Laws describe it as both a Jewish and a democratic state. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 75.7% of Israel's population is Jewish.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19">[20] Large numbers of Jews continue to emigrate to Israel. Arabs, who make up 20.4% of the population, are the largest ethnic minority in Israel. Israel also has very small communities of Armenians, Circassians, Assyrians, Samaritans, and persons of some Jewish heritage. There are also some non-Jewish spouses of Israeli Jews. However, these communities are very small, and usually number only in the hundreds or thousands.

[edit] Pakistan

Pakistan, even being an ethnically diverse country, is regarded as a nation state<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20">[21] due to its ideology on basis of which it got independence from British India as a separate nation rather than as a unified India.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21">[22]<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22">[23]<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23">[24] Pakistanis are strongly bonded by their Muslim identity, culture, heritage and values in the subcontinent.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24">[25]<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jinnah1940_25-0">[26]