What the Arabs need now
Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 4:24AM ■"What Arabs Really Think," from StrategyPage.com , www.strategypage.com/messageboards/messages/478-1975.asp, 29 May 2005, sent by reader Russ Steele.
Analysis offered from a recent survey of Arabs undertaken by Al Arabiya news network. Focus was on causality behind lack of economic progress in region. Eighty-one percent blamed it on the governments being unwilling to reform, 8 percent blamed the "ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, 7 percent blamed society for failing to convince governments to change, and a whopping 4 percent blamed terrorism.
Another question focused on the fastest way to correct this situation. Here 67 percent said "ensuring the rule of law," 23 percent answered "freedom of speech," and a whopping ten percent said "resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict."
So what do we hear from our media and the region's media regarding the "problems" of the Middle East? What do we hear from a lot of activists and academics and experts? Fix terrorism and fix the Arab-Israeli conflict and there will be positive change.
Seems the Arab street is a whole lot smarter than we imagine it to be.
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