Robert Fisk: A new truth dawns on the Arab world

[JohnyCanuck]

It will be – and is – an outrage for the Palestinians to learn how their representatives have turned their backs on them. There is no way in which, in the light of the Palestine Papers, these people can believe in their own rights.

They have seen on film and on paper that they will not go back. But across the Arab world – and this does not mean the Muslim world – there is now an understanding of truth that there has not been before.

It is not possible any more, for the people of the Arab world to lie to each other. The lies are finished. The words of their leaders – which are, unfortunately, our own words – have finished. It is we who have led them into this demise. It is we who have told them these lies. And we cannot recreate them any more.

In Egypt, we British loved democracy. We encouraged democracy in Egypt – until the Egyptians decided that they wanted an end to the monarchy. Then we put them in prison. Then we wanted more democracy. It was the same old story. Just as we wanted Palestinians to enjoy democracy, providing they voted for the right people, we wanted the Egyptians to love our democratic life. Now, in Lebanon, it appears that Lebanese "democracy" must take its place. And we don't like it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-a-new-truth-dawns-on-the-arab-world-2194488.html

[shraby]

1. It appears to me that the internet has people communicating

with each other as well as letting people all over the world see how people in other countries live. The govenments and religious leaders don't control the whole message anymore.
Even in this country, we can ask people who live in countries with government provided health care how it works and how they like it and waiting periods for treatment, and we found out that for the most part it works good and they do like it and the wait for treatment isn't any longer than it is here. Also just how much we were being scammed and denied by our own system of insurance care.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, JohnyCanuck.