Arc101,
While I'm sympathetic to the suffering of the Palestinians, I wonder why the Arabs can mobilize en masse to demonstrate against the suffering of a few million Palestinians while ignoring the larger, more complex issues in their own backyards. It seems to me that the Arab governments (corrupt) and media (sensalitionalist) have conspired against the Arab people to divert their attention away from their own failings. When I hear an Arab lamenting the suffering of the Palestinains, I cannot take their outrage at face value when their own societies are so lacking in them. It just befuddles the mind to witness such a straw man tactic work on so many! It reminds me of the debate about gay marriage in America.
"The secret key to the American Presidential election is who can most subtly express their contempt for minorities, blacks in the 60s, latinos in the 90s, and gays in the 21st century."
Gore Vidal.
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