Um, what about those demonstrations over there?
David Pollack of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes just now that "large public demonstrations have so far failed to materialize in most Arab countries" in response to Gaza. While this may be reassuring to those who hope to minimize the importance of paying attention to Arab public opinion, it simply isn’t true. ...
David Pollack of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes just now that "large public demonstrations have so far failed to materialize in most Arab countries" in response to Gaza. While this may be reassuring to those who hope to minimize the importance of paying attention to Arab public opinion, it simply isn't true.
David Pollack of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes just now that "large public demonstrations have so far failed to materialize in most Arab countries" in response to Gaza. While this may be reassuring to those who hope to minimize the importance of paying attention to Arab public opinion, it simply isn’t true.
Just from Arabic press reports today:
- at least 50,000 protestors in the Egyptian city of Alexandria
- thousands in a rare protest in Doha
- "tens of thousands" in Bahrain
- huge protests in