ivk
28-07-2006, 10:06 AM
Interesting piece about the divide between the public and the puppet ruling authorities:-
If there was long a vast divide between Arab rulers and ruled, a vast contempt of the latter for the former, Hamas and Hizbullah, together, have crystallized them in the most flagrant manner. To be sure, when Saudi Arabia, backed by Egypt and Jordan, those other two pro-American stalwarts of the "system", came out with its harsh criticism of Hizbullah, and its "uncalculated adventurism" that triggered so ferocious an Israeli response, it struck a sympathetic chord not just with the Lebanese state, but much of its people too. And understandably so, incensed as they are by the way in which other states, notably "sister-Syria", with serial obduracy use their small and defenceless country to wage proxy wars, because they will not, dare not, wage direct ones of their own.
Read more:-
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_hirst/2006/07/post_259.html
If there was long a vast divide between Arab rulers and ruled, a vast contempt of the latter for the former, Hamas and Hizbullah, together, have crystallized them in the most flagrant manner. To be sure, when Saudi Arabia, backed by Egypt and Jordan, those other two pro-American stalwarts of the "system", came out with its harsh criticism of Hizbullah, and its "uncalculated adventurism" that triggered so ferocious an Israeli response, it struck a sympathetic chord not just with the Lebanese state, but much of its people too. And understandably so, incensed as they are by the way in which other states, notably "sister-Syria", with serial obduracy use their small and defenceless country to wage proxy wars, because they will not, dare not, wage direct ones of their own.
Read more:-
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/david_hirst/2006/07/post_259.html