The "Arab Street" needs some serious mental help
Hanging Saddam brought some very strange reactions from the “Arab Street” especially in countries like Jordan, Palestine and Egypt where Saddam “mokhabarat” was very generous ‘buying’ the streets in Gaza, Ramallah, Amman and Cairo. These same streets that also cheered Saddam’s occupation of Kuwait that brought the forced expulsions of some 350,000 Palestinians and Jordanian who where making decent living in Kuwait and who lost some $14 billions as a result of Saddam occupation of Kuwait. These same streets that also cheered Saddam “Scud” missiles as they zipped trough the skies to land with a large thud in Tel-Aviv. Some 30 Scuds where fired on Tel-Aviv and did not result in a single Israeli death and for which Saddam end up paying Israel some $850 millions in damages.
I remember the 80’s when Saddam was waging his war against the Persian at the behest of the Reagan Administration killing and murdering over million of a very educated Iraqis and destroying his country so that he can fight the Persians on behalf of Ronald Reagan. With visits to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and where so many people, average Arabs, where so impressed with Saddam and his war that he was their hero only to discover few years later his killing machines hitting their door steps and their neighbors.
In Egypt with thousands cheering Saddam on, forgetting that he killed and murdered several hundred Egyptians guest workers because they wanted to get paid. Both the government and people of Egypt where silent about these murder and accepted silence rather than face the wrath of Saddam, and his money.
While Saddam was killing and murdering both Iraqis and Persians, and destroying his country, the so called “Arab Streets” where cheering Saddam on, and his fight for Arab honor, whatever that is. The same Arab Street was cheering Saddam on even though his army was noting but total failure in the war with Iran having been routed out of the border with Iran and was very impressively routed during the war for the liberations of Kuwait. The same Arab Street was cheering Saddam on, even though they saw his army run away and surrender by the thousands. They cheered Saddam on even though they saw on television how poorly Saddam army was ill fed and ill equipped. The same Arab Street cheered Saddam on when millions of Iraqi children where facing imminent death because of lack of food and medicine while Saddam and his family where using and wasting billions of dollars on building palaces, buying fast cars and robbing the Iraqi treasury and where his sons where raping Iraqi women. The same Arab Street is now cheering for Qadafi decision to erect a monument in his memory even though Qadafi expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians leaving stranded in the no man zone on the border with Egypt, even though Qadafi is responsible for the cold blooded murder of innocent airline passengers.
The Arab Street never not rise against dictatorship and did not rise and go the streets demanding freedom for themselves and demanding accountability from governments that robbed them blind. The same Arab Streets cheered for so called nationalist leaders like Hafiz Assad even though he murdered over 25,000 of his citizens in Hamah and was too coward to even fire one single shot across the Golan Heights. The same Arab Street cheered for Yaser Arafat even though Arafat wasted billions of dollars on his friends and cronies and was responsible for some 200,000 dead as a result of his failed war of liberation and even though the man was giving tens of millions of the people money to his wife so she can live the good life in Paris while his people where starving in Gaza. No one should take the Arab Street seriously, it never amounted to any thing and it always supported wrong causes and supported so called nationalist dictatorship, the likes of Saddam, Assad, Arafat, Nasser and Qadafi. Never understood why the people of Poland, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria can go out to the street forcing dictatorship out of power and taking their own liberation with their own hands while in the Arab world, the Arab Streets go out and cheer for a coward and a traitor like Saddam Hussein. I invited psychologists from around the world to study the phenomena that is the Arab Street and find out why they are always supporting and cheering on losers and dictators. The Arab Street needs some serious mental help.

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