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MIDDLE EAST - Betrayer of the Palestinians...and friend only to himself: The wretched Yasser Arafat.
One of the most famous of classical Arab stories concerns the boy Aladdin, who finds a lamp, rubs it, and sees an all-powerful slave spring up, there to do his bidding. But Aladdin soon makes unreasonable demands, and the slave takes over. The boy then has to devise a way to get him back into the lamp, a seemingly impossible task.
We must take care, in other words, that our ambitions do not destroy us. This moral is universal, but it applies especially in the Arab culture, where power is absolute and indivisible, and there is no check on the follies and crimes of a man aspiring to that power.
Yasser Arafat illustrates the moral perfectly. By the standards ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, MIDDLE EAST - Betrayer of the Palestinians...and friend only to...