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Why the Arabs Continuously Fail

[Asharq Alawsat-UK] Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed - Ever since Hizbullah's uncouth kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers last summer, Lebanon is no longer the same Lebanon. Thousands of Lebanese citizens have immigrated to different countries, many Lebanese economic facilities were shut down and many emigrants had lost their life savings that they earned from Africa, Australia and America. What is really surprising is that Israelis admit their mistakes and call themselves as well as their leaders to account. Yet in Lebanon they are still fighting one another and brashly refuse to admit their mistakes. For that reason, we can understand why Israel can surpass us and why we continuously fail. Has there ever been a single disaster that befell Arabs, whether natural or organized, that was followed up by investigations, the results of which would have the guilty parties brought to account and punished? There have never been such investigations ever since the series of defeats that began with the defeat of the 1948 war, where only scapegoats were convicted so as to save the real perpetrators from the anger of the people and disguise the scandal. The writer is the general manager of Al-Arabiya television.
2007-03-13 01:00:00
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