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Pro-Israel poster goes viral in the Arab world

This pro-Israel poster is going viral in the Arab world. No really. http://t.co/i0D1ONcaMl http://t.co/GdnxppFVzy
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) January 14, 2014

Hmmm.... What will happen if the Arabs start thinking for themselves?

Labels: Arab backwardness, Arab world, flotilla, Gaza, Syria

Video: The language of the Arab man

Here's LATMA's song of the week - the Language of the Arab Man. I had to watch this with the sound off so you can all let me know how the music is. Aren't subtitles great?

Let's go to the videotape.

I hope to have the full episode later.

Labels: Arab anti-Semitism, Arab obsession with Israel, Arab terrorism, Arab world, Arab-Muslim blood lust, Arabic, Arabs, LATMA

Someone please tell me there are many more like him

Yes, there is an Arab who thinks like this.

The fact is, Arabs don’t all look alike or think alike. But we are often pushed into a kind of groupthink, a kind of self-censorship that hinders our development and our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

We are not a universal group. But some of us believe in a simple universal truth: that every Arab deserves to live in freedom, wherever he or she might call home. Some of us want Arab countries to be more like America and Israel, places where the individual can flourish.

Say those words to many Arabs and they are shocked and angered. Soon, words like imperialist are thrown about, and the subject turns to Israel. Always, it seems, it turns to Israel.

Why the anger when I hint that America and Israel might have something to teach the Arab world? I thought about it for the longest time, and only recently stumbled upon the answer.

It is all about Arab self-doubt. It is all tied to a profound lack of cultural self-confidence, and a deep-seated fear that maybe, just maybe, Arabs won’t be very good at the self-governance thing. That Arab nations won’t be capable of building democratic cultures that engender the flourishing of human freedom, and that these nations won’t have the ability to tap the God-given talents of their people the way Americans and Israelis do.

That maybe, just maybe, the Arab world will never measure up to America or Israel.

Better, goes the logic, to cling to anger over the plight of the Palestinians. Better to cling to international policy disputes and to a deep-seated hatred of Israel. Better to play the role of victim, and the role of self-righteous critic, than to do the hard work of lifting up the conditions of your people.

Okay, he grew up in and lives in America, but his story tells you that many Arabs who grew up like he did still retain the ancient Middle East hatreds. But he gives me hope.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Arab blame game, Arab misery, Arab obsession with Israel, Arab paranoia, Arab treatment of women, Arab world