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To tie a couple of today's posts together, a lot of people think that Arabs devote so much mental energy to the Israel/Palestine conflict because they live in regimes that do not permit their people to get similarly exercised about reform at home. It is absolutely true that Arabs get more upset about that conflict than they do about similar loss of life in their own countries, but that is at least partly a function of domestic repression. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are not free countries.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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