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...Arab psyche took a direct hit last week when American forces toppled Saddam's regime. Not since Israel's devastating defeat of its Arab neighbors in the 1967 Six-Day War has military action left the Middle East in such a state of alternating shock, shame, denial and depression. Crazy rumors, wishful thinking and conspiracy theories--Saddam and his sons committed suicide in a secret bunker so the West would never know if they were dead or alive--are running rampant. If Washington hoped the initial scenes of Iraqi jubilation over Saddam's fall would ameliorate Arab antipathy toward...
...liberation of Iraqis from tyranny? Only a fool would believe that was the U.S. goal, according to an overwhelming majority of Arabs whom TIME reporters surveyed in Amman and Cairo. America, they said, is fighting a war of conquest and occupation. For the most part, the war depicted in Arab media is one of subjugation and suffering for Iraqis. Admits a U.S. official: "Let's face it, if 9/11 happened tomorrow, there would be dancing in the streets...
...sociologist Sari Nasir, explaining away the joy. "It's collective behavior." Others expressed humiliation at the walloping defeat of the Iraqi forces, as well as scorn for those who welcomed foreign tanks into the city. "To see our dignity wiped out like that, I am ashamed to be an Arab," says Cairo physician Khaled Ragab...
...discomfort was also discernible among some Arab leaders, who resent Washington's talk of remapping the Middle East. Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher told TIME that Arab anger is not likely to subside until Washington seriously addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "If the U.S. doesn't pay attention to the peace process," he said, "it cannot hope to turn around the way it is perceived...
...Turkey may not have been solely responsible for the subdued statement on Syria. Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the two Arab majors at the meeting, are also said to have advised Damascus to cool...