The Arab Status Quo Is in Peril

Anthony Shadid, New York Times
BEIRUT — The past few weeks have been bad ones for the old Arab order.It started with Egypt, once the dynamic, uncontested leader of the Arab world, whose foreign policy now often amounts to an appendix tacked onto American mediation in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. A New Year’s Day bombing at a church in Alexandria has laid bare what most Egyptians already know: Years of stagnation have solved none of Egypt’s problems and may have created new ones — a Christian-Muslim divide, for one.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/16/the_arab_status_quo_is_in_peril_248896.html

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