GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: A majority of observers interviewed see the Middle East as

For me it was also clearly between D & E.

I picked "D" and here's a big reason why: "E" repeats "Middle East". I've noticed that, on some hard questions, GMAT would prefer using a pronoun than rewrite the same noun more than one time in a sentence.

Verbal Experts, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, when I was confirming my choice, I notice the sentence is predicting some future event. Since this is the case, "will" is preferred to "would".
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