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Esperanto is modern and international already; it can easily adapt to ASCII environments and is supported in Unicode.
Esperanto is mostly Indo-European, and Zamenhof knew Hebrew.
Remember, for most of post-agricultural history, we have been propagandized into nationalism by slave masters and feudalists. It was only during capitalism that humans began to embrace cooperation among other nations; and there's still a ton of nationalism today.
Given that nationalism seeps into language, it's no surprise that the idea of a nationa language is so strong. They're called natural languages, but in practice, all human languages are fundamentally constructed; Esperanto is just blatant.
Yep. Far better than English.