“...Arab political culture ... remains autocratic and rigid at the top, and passive and frustrated at the grassroots.”
By Rami G. Khouri
The Daily Star, Lebanon
I started writing this column Sunday in Amman, Jordan, and finished writing it Tuesday in Beirut, Lebanon - a short journey that captured how the dynamic events in Iran are playing out in very different ways in a largely passive and vulnerable Arab world.
Jordan and Lebanon contain extremes visible in the Arab world, including pro-American and pro-Iranian sentiments, Islamists, monarchists, and an assortment of tribal, Arab nationalist, state-centered and democratic values.
All of them, without exception, are reacting to events in Iran with fascination, confusion, and concern, reflecting self-inflicted political incoherence and mediocrity that are hallmarks of the modern Arab world.
Rest of the story: http://www.averroespress.com/AverroesPress/Main/Entries/2009/6/24_The_Arabs_watch_Iran_with_forlorn_envy.html
3 comments:
The biggest obsession of Arabs and people in the Middle East is the on going mass murder by Israel of Palestinians and other Arabs.
Ongoing?
Since 1948.
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