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What is going on in the Middle East?\u00a0First it was Tunisia, then Egypt, and then\u2014well, I’ve already forgotten, but we’ve got Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria\u2026 There’s the whole Israel\/Palestine mess, and Pakistan and Afghanistan, of course, and who else? Yemen? I know I’m missing some.<\/p>\n
A whole lot of people being killed by power struggles all over the fracking place is what I see. The latest in Syria\u2014eighty-five people on Sunday killed in government crackdowns, and at least eight more today despite the start of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Arab “Spring” they call it.\u00a0Isn’t spring supposed to be about rebirth and renewal?<\/p>\n
And isn’t it summer? Is there yet any end in sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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