A villa in the jungle? / Uri Avnery
4 Feb ...The turmoil in Egypt was caused by economic factors: the rising cost of living, the poverty, the unemployment, the hopelessness of the educated young. But let there be no mistake: the underlying causes are far more profound. They can be summed up in one word: Palestine. In Arab culture, nothing is more important than honor. People can suffer deprivation, but they will not stand humiliation [no people will!]. Yet what every young Arab from Morocco to Oman saw daily was his leaders humiliating themselves, forsaking their Palestinian brothers in order to gain favor and money from America, collaborating with the Israeli occupation, cringing before the new colonizers. This was deeply humiliating for young people brought up on the achievements of Arab culture in times gone by and the glories of the early Caliphs. Nowhere was this loss of honor more obvious than in Egypt, which openly collaborated with the Israeli leadership in imposing the shameful blockade on the Gaza Strip
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The underlying cause is Zionism NOT Palestine. The Egyptian people too have been repressed just like the Palestinians. Israel is a racist nation and will not tolerate an economic and poilitical equal. This is why they needed Sadat and Mubarak to crush Arab unity and nationalism. The retardation of Arabs is due to Zionism. Hopefully the Egyptian people can throw off the Zionist yoke and restore the sense of Arab unity, pride and dignity.
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