re: #1 researchok

The Arab Spring put one shibboleth to rest- discontent in the Arab world had almost nothing to do with the Palestinians.

Put it to rest in whose mind? You know as well as I that it will continue to be raised as such anyway.

The people had enough of the broken, dysfunctional and oppressive regimes and their sycophant defenders.

And I wish them all the best—-

That’s what really set them off.

—- I just wish there was something WE (ok, the US, if not the rest of the world) could do without looking like we are “interfering.”