What’s Really Wrong with the Middle East by Brian Whitaker | Book review | Books | The Guardian
The problems of the Middle East are always somebody else's fault. Arabs blame their problems on centuries of foreign interference; their critics retort that the Arabs must shoulder responsibility for their own failures. The argument is about the allocation of blame: no one denies that the problems of the Arab world are deeply rooted and pervasive. As for the causes, both sides have a case: the problems of the region are the product of a unique combination of internal and external factors.
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