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The Arab world must face its demons
| The Arab world must see the attacks on Christians in Egypt and Iraq as a wake-up call [Reuters] |
In the wake of the recent attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, warned that Christians face a campaign of “religious cleansing in the Middle East”. But, given Western governments’ colonial history and double standards on human rights, Arab Christians would be better served by an end to destructive Western intervention in the region than by sympathetic statements.
This Western show of concern is not only hypocritical and damaging to social cohesion, but could serve to further ignite the growing wave of sectarianism sweeping the region. It was, after all, Western colonial powers that planted the seeds of the divisions that haunt the Arab world to this day and the US invasion and occupation of Iraq that unleashed the sectarian strife from which it is reeling.
As an Arab Christian, originally from Bethlehem, I am offended to hear Western leaders pretend to defend Arab Christians, while they either do nothing to stop or actively support Israeli violations of the human rights and dignity of the Palestinian people – Muslim and Christian alike.
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The PA’s bid to crush resistance in Jenin camp won&#;t give it keys to Gaza
The vicious campaign being conducted by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against the Jenin refugee camp is incomprehensible.
Equally incomprehensible are the statements being issued by the PA's security apparatus – including claims by its spokesman, Anwar Rajab that they are targeting "mercenaries" controlled by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
On the one hand this claim completely ignores the plentiful evidence that it is in fact Israeli agents that have a foothold in the camp, which has lead to numerous betrayals of resistance fighters, assassinations and arrests.
On the other hand, accusing Jenin's youth of being Iranian agents is to take an explicit stance which serves Israel in its ongoing battle to eradicate Palestinian resistance.
It’s clear that the PA intends to disarm the Jenin Brigades by terrorising the whole camp. In this approach, it is sending an unequivocal message to Palestinian fighters from all factions - including Fatah - which is that the era of armed resistance against Israel is over.
The resistance groups it is targeting are those who emerged following Israel's May war on Gaza, when multi-factional groups formed, including members from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic
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The rebirth complete Arab activism
| Mohammed Bouazizi’s attempted self-immolation chief off protests by Tunisians [AFP] |
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