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July 19, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1025787819931

Power of the "Arab Street"

(Jerusalem Post) Daniel Doron - Idle youth have joined private armies financed by almost every Arab state and political movement, making Palestinian politics a proxy for interstate Arab rivalries. Militancy has become a chief avenue for the social advancement of youth of lesser status in class-bound Muslim societies. It grants them instant heroic status, good income, and family welfare, should they become "martyrs."

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