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The Arab Street is Boiling
Algemeiner ^ | June 27, 2014

Posted on 06/30/2014 6:22:28 AM PDT by SJackson

More than 700,000 protesters gather in Al-Assy Square in Hama, Syria on July 22, 2001. Photo: Syriana2011.

According to the Saudi Arabia-based newspaper Arab News: “The Arab Spring is not about seeking democracy, it is about Arabs killing Arabs [and] about hate and sectarian violence. … The Arab Spring is an accumulation of years of political corruption, human rights violations, sectarianism and poor education systems. It showed that the Arabs were never united and are now divided beyond anybody’s imagination. We hate each other more than we hate the outside enemy. Syrians are hurting Syrians and the Israelis are the ones who treat the Syrian wounds [in an Israeli field hospital built on the Golan Heights].”

Connecting the dots of the increasingly boiling Arab street highlights the 1,400-year reality of intense intra-Arab violent intolerance, hate education, transient (one-bullet) regimes, tenuous policies, non-compliance with intra-Arab agreements, which are usually signed on ice and not carved in stone, explosive unpredictability, lack of intra-Arab peaceful coexistence and a savage violation of civil liberties.

In 14 centuries, the Arab street has never experienced freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly or movement, which constitutes a prerequisite for free elections and peaceful coexistence. The Arab world is swept by domestic, regional, national and intra-Arab terrorism, systematically and intentionally targeting civilians by way of car bombs, bullets, missiles and chemical warfare. Ethnic cleansing has engulfed Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Tunisia and Libya, underscoring the lack of national cohesion on the Arab street and the merciless intra-Arab/Muslim fragmentation along ethnic, tribal, cultural, geographic, ideological and religious lines. The national cohesion of the three most powerful Arab countries throughout the 20th century — Egypt, Iraq and Syria — has collapsed, threatening Iraq and Syria with chaotic disintegration. The fate of minorities in Arab countries reveals the devastating Arab/Muslim attitude towards the “infidel” Christian, Jews or Buddhist.

Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab world has intensified anxiety and panic among the inherently unstable pro-U.S. regimes of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain. These regimes are aware that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s late dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Tunisia’s ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh (possibly joined by Syrian President Bashar Assad) were perceived to be as stable as the Rock of Gibraltar, but were overthrown summarily and brutally by fanatic Islamic terrorists.

They are cognizant of the clear, present and lethal threat posed by Iran and Iran’s adversary, ISIS (“Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant”), which intends to sweep Jordan, Kuwait and the rest of the Gulf. They are concerned about the lava erupting from the endemic civil war in the intractably fragmented Yemen, which controls the route used by oil tankers from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.

Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street emphasizes the mutually inclusive nature of the Arab streets. The December 2010 Tunisian upheaval fueled the February 2011 Libyan and Egyptian eruptions, which fed the February 2011 turmoil in Yemen and Bahrain, and provided tailwind to the March 2011 civil war in Syria. It intensified terrorism and disintegration in Iraq, thus posing an imminent deadly threat to the Hashemite regime in Jordan, which could be transformed into another heaven for Islamic terrorism on Israel’s longest, and most vulnerable, border.

Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street accentuates Israel’s unique role as the U.S.’s only stable, reliable, effective, democratic and unconditional ally, whose posture of deterrence — in the face of Islamic terrorism and Iran — is a life insurance policy for the Hashemite regime and other pro-U.S. Arab regimes in the Middle East.

Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street underscores the recklessness of past pressure on Israel to retreat from the Golan Heights, as well as the current pressure on Israel to withdraw from the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria. These hills dominate the border with Jordan (the Jordan Valley) and overlook Jerusalem, Israel’s international airport and 80 percent of Israel’s infrastructures and populations in the 9- to 15-mile sliver along the Mediterranean (the pre-1967 Israel). An Israel without the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria would be transformed from a producer to a consumer of national security; from a strategic asset to a strategic burden.

Connecting the dots of the increasingly turbulent Arab street exposes the gullibility of well-intentioned peace negotiators, who consider the Arab Tsunami an Arab Spring, transitioning into democracy, embracing Western norms of peaceful coexistence, compliance with agreements and civil liberties. They believe that a signed agreement can erase a 14-century-old shifty and devious culture. They ignore the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict has never been “the Middle East conflict,” that the Arab Tsunami has revealed the Palestinian issue as a marginal player in Middle Eastern politics, and that the Palestinian issue has never been the crown jewel of Arab policy making or the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict. They ignore the reality-driven analysis by the Saudi Arab News, thus pressuring Israel to go through suspension of disbelief, lowering its security threshold and relying on peace-driven security, rather on security and deterrence-driven peace, while the Arab street is boiling.


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1 posted on 06/30/2014 6:22:28 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

So what, they are always boiling.


2 posted on 06/30/2014 6:25:12 AM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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3 posted on 06/30/2014 6:25:38 AM PDT by SJackson (wish I had known more firsthand about...problems of American businesspeople as a Senator G McGovern)
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To: SJackson

Islam is hate.

It has purified and refined hate to levels previously unknown.

Sooner or later we will have to deal with that.


4 posted on 06/30/2014 6:25:42 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SJackson

Screw the boiling, lets nuke it!


5 posted on 06/30/2014 6:25:49 AM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: Da Coyote

Yes, it is a disease of the soul.


6 posted on 06/30/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SJackson

“We hate each other more than we hate the outside enemy.”

They sure have the “hate” thing down.


7 posted on 06/30/2014 6:29:30 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: SJackson

“Arab Street is Boiling”

What a shock. Until now, the Arab street has mostly consisted of laid back mild mannered people that like to discuss their differences over a cup of coffee.


8 posted on 06/30/2014 6:32:07 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: SJackson
Boiling Street:

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9 posted on 06/30/2014 6:33:49 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: caver
“We hate each other more than we hate the outside enemy.”

“Me against my brother, my brothers and me against my cousins, then my cousins and me against the world.” - Arab proverb

10 posted on 06/30/2014 6:38:28 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: SJackson
“The Arab Spring is not about seeking democracy, it is about Arabs killing Arabs [and] about hate and sectarian violence. … The Arab Spring is an accumulation of years of political corruption, human rights violations, sectarianism and poor education systems.

Sometimes, massive trauma and turmoil leads to a period of reflection.

Maybe they will beat the ugly barbarian out of each other.

11 posted on 06/30/2014 6:40:53 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: SJackson

Remember when the MSM wanted America to be concerned about what the “Arab street” was saying? As if we had to let that guide us? Well, it looks like the “Arab street” simply wants to kill each other and it doesn’t have much to do with America or Israel.


12 posted on 06/30/2014 6:41:19 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SJackson
It showed that the Arabs were never united and are now divided beyond anybody’s imagination. We hate each other more than we hate the outside enemy.

To know them is to hate them, and no one knows them better.

13 posted on 06/30/2014 6:42:15 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SJackson

I believe there are no Arab nations, only creations that resemble crime families controlling any given area.


14 posted on 06/30/2014 6:43:15 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: SJackson

700,000 in the streets. That’s impressive, we need that kind of passion right here in America for what is going on here right now !

We’re getting the shaft


15 posted on 06/30/2014 6:43:31 AM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: SJackson

“years of political corruption, human rights violations, sectarianism and poor education systems.”

Yes, and they have done it all to themselves.


16 posted on 06/30/2014 6:45:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SJackson
Yes, this is my happy face...
17 posted on 06/30/2014 6:46:39 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: SJackson

“He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Gen: 16:12


18 posted on 06/30/2014 6:48:54 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: SJackson

Like the scorpion said to the frog: “It’s what we do”


19 posted on 06/30/2014 6:50:16 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: amnestynone
So what, they are always boiling.

The Arabs are always REVOLTING...the stench is felt around the Globe.

The Arabs are always angry, mad, upset, irate and boiling.

Since T.E. Lawrence helped them overthrow the Turks in WWI, they have been burning.

Now, take a angry, illiterate mob, raised on Islam, throw in some blood feuds, tribalism and a pinch of weaponry and you get a full scale revolt. Their religious leaders feverishly preach death, mayhem and destruction from their Mosques.

Most of the Arab lands are hot, now add the holiday of Ramadan with no eating all day, no alcohol at all, no sex, no nothing and you get Al_Qaieda. Toss in some head sawing, heart eating and some crucifixions and you get ISIS.

No amount of tolerance, no amount of understanding and no amount of appeasing is going to help you understand these rabid dogs. Unfortunately, the ONLY thing a rabid dogs understands is a bullet, or in the case of Revolting Arabs, carpet bombing.

These animals kill each other, show no mercy (as the Prophet dictated) and live to kill or be killed. If you kill an Infidel you are a hero. If you are killed, you are a “Shaeed” or Martyr. Either way these revolting scum understand the power that comes out of a rifle or tank barrel and that is all.

Every picture we see of these scum all over the planet shows them with raised AK-47’s in the air. In days of old it was swords, (look at the Saudi flag).
That is who they are, an illiterate rabble, just ready to kill.
It is high time we face who& what they are and begin dealing serious blows to their existence.
They're coming for you...

20 posted on 06/30/2014 6:50:54 AM PDT by Netz
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