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As`ad AbuKhalil reviews Middle East rulers’ reasons for distrusting their own militaries.
For several reasons, Israel has joined various Arab powers to back a strongman in Libya, explains Giorgio Cafiero.
There were Egyptian elections before Mohammed Morsi, who underestimated the anti-democratic impulses of Arab tyrannies, and assumed Western governments wouldn’t stand for an overthrow of a democratically-elected president.
As’ad AbuKhalil explains why Palestinians will see through the latest U.S. illusion of a Middle East “peace process.”