Interessante artigo de opinião de Hussain Abdul-Hussain, no Lebanon news.
It used to be Palestine only, conveniently giving Arab autocrats the excuse to make everyone shut up and accept tyranny. But the Arab Spring has changed it all. Now every Arab country has its issues, its dead, its arrested, its dictators to topple and its future to think of. Finally Arabs have come to realize that their different problems are equally important. Claiming that Palestine trumps all other Arab causes does not cut it anymore.
This new Arab thinking was not born overnight. In the lead-up to the US war in Iraq, the Arabs were still thinking in terms of Arab countries versus imperialism. Only those Iraqis who had tasted the wrath of Saddam Hussein found themselves in a bind. The only force willing to rid them of their tyrant was the same power that they were raised to hate: The United States of America. (…)
The year 2005 partially vindicated my stance. After the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, an uprising broke out in Beirut with many “anti-imperialists” in Lebanon and Syria seeing that the problem was not with America, but with their own rulers and so-called resistance movements who hide their crimes behind the “Liberation of Palestine.” (…)
Over the past year, Egyptians have been consumed by their revolution, the Syrians by their war of liberation, the Libyans by their government-building and the Yemenis by their post-dictator period. Meanwhile, the Lebanese have been hoping that the Arab Spring makes a show in their country. From time to time, these different Arabs show mutual solidarity with each other’s causes. Palestine has lost its place at center stage. (…).
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