"The frustration is just huge."
-Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian analyst with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_summer_of_discontent--------------
Arab anger at their governments growBy NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD, Associated Press Writer Mon Aug 7, 3:48 AM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - As their anger against
Israel and America swells, protesters across the Middle East are also increasingly venting their frustration at their Arab rulers, especially in moderate countries whose governments have been reliable U.S. allies.
Nearly four weeks of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel have aggravated a summer of discontent over the bloodshed in
Iraq, stalled democratic reforms and price increases. Angry at their governments, demonstrators are praising a new hero: Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
"The whole region has been engulfed in anger since the war on Iraq more than three years ago," said Diaa Rashwan, an Egyptian analyst with the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. "The frustration is just huge."
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The rising resentment is weighing heavily on Arab leaders as their foreign ministers gather in Beirut on Monday for an emergency meeting. Moderates like Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia may want a halt to the fighting, but they can't be seen as backing a U.S.-promoted cease-fire plan that Hezbollah has depicted as a surrender.
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Demonstrators have denounced leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia for blaming Hezbollah — sometimes implicitly, sometimes overtly — for starting the fighting by snatching two Israeli soldiers in a July 12 cross-border raid.
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