[Ha'aretz] Zvi Bar'el - The Egyptian thinker Kamal Gabriel explains on the Internet site Elaph: "The Arabs are using the Palestinian problem as a drainage channel for all their rivers of crises and problems." In other words, the Arab states place Palestine at the top of their agenda only in order to avoid dealing with their own problems. Accordingly, he concludes, the Palestine issue "will be the last of all the Arab problems that will be resolved." The real problem, Gabriel says, is the absence of a pragmatic source of authority that is prepared to take the view that life is not made of daydreams or of tremendous victories.
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