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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2010/1108/The-Arabs-worst-enemy-themselves
The Arabs' Worst Enemy: Themselves
(Christian Science Monitor) Walter Rodgers - Bernard Lewis, the renowned Princeton scholar of Islam, has called attention to the Arab tendency to play "the blame game." He notes Arabs traditionally blamed the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the colonial powers, and now the Jews and the Americans for everything that has gone awry in their once proud and accomplished history. Arabs lament that billions in U.S. aid give the Israeli military an insurmountable advantage. But they disingenuously forget that American dollars also keep the lights on - and governments running - in a host of Arab and Muslim lands, from Egypt and Jordan to Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.