A Question of Arab Unity-Trials&Tribulations-12Feb08-Ep3 Pt1

[translationwiz]

What they did to Anton Saaday,(And I dont totally agree w/his philosophy) is an example of what ails the Arabs the most, and thats intolerance for other ideas. Instead, to make sure nobody listens to that man we kill him. What kind of insanity is this? No religion, esp. Islam, No decent civilization, tolerates that kind of savagery. How are we going to unite, if we cant tolerate dissent? Do we have to be robots to be united in cause? OF course not.....Just had to comment on that.

peace/salam

[hafeez587]

Arabs are what can I say...they are shameless...they cant even decide to take a stance against Israel..when even West condemn Israel..What are they doing..they are actually happy by their Oil wealth..and dnt care about any other...selfish...

truly..more than 60 yrz..Palestine..and see the fucking Husn-e-Mubarak..he called himself Muslim, and he also block GAZA ..fuckerz..truly, their decline is because of their luxuries..and waste of money..spending it on the waste..and not on technolgy, defence

[oct1984]

we Arabs need education more than unity for now ,educated people have a undo understanding of and to what ever it maybe.

and if you look at what we stand now ,one could say I'm not a arab , I rather be other than Arab.

[kellnergram]

oct1984, your comment is excellent (except you shouldn't say you would rather not be Arabic). Arabic/middle east standards of education remain amongst the lowest in the world despite the billions in oil revenue. THAT IS SIMPLY CRAZY! - But there can be little doubt that Arabic people as individuals and as a culture or cultures are capable (once again) of greatness. I owe my life to an Egyptian surgeon, and I lived months in Spain on the sublime beauty & creativity of places like Granada.

[Soldatypravdy]

the only education a arab will receive is when his camel makes love and he learns how to drink sperm and produce deform ape looking mutant cyborg aliens monkey face half camel half human pig wild boar children.

[oct1984]

you are a sick person you need to see someone for direction in life...if you can't find that one a bullet in your skull well do the job.

[rorophoe]

@oct1984

Go learn english and comback. or write in arabic.

[oct1984]

@rorophoe

I have no intrested in doing it

[xxrev0ltxx]

Nasser's pan-arabism failed only coz of kings like Hussein of Jordan, al Sauds and Faisal II wanted their piece of land and support granted by the colonial powers... all for what? corruption and greed.

[hyepower89]

lets face it, there can never be arab unity, there have been to many wars to forgive and forget..its such a shame because they have great culture, civilastion and women!!

[amrjosef]

no we willl never give up, there will be if not today it will be tommorow, and history prrof that

[jklasdfjdfksl]

seems similar to limiting a nation's primary purpose to comfort the investment and ownership of unaccountable (unaccountable to the nations people) economic totalitarian elites (western, US, corporate, multinationals); and as we have seen, military force will be imposed to force nations into this scheme.

[INEAS]

IRAQ was never part of Greater Syria for the impractical and opportunist Antoun Saadah to want to include IRAQ in his greater Syrian dream. His movement was to unite The Levantine (al-Sham) not the Arabs. What do Cyprus and Turkey (part of Saadah's dream) have to do with Arabs? As a history researcher and writer, I find this series filled with many setbacks.

[INEAS]

Though Saad Zaghloul began his anti-British activism in 1919, no revolution there or anywhere in the Arab world took place before IRAQ's 1920 revolution, yet AGAIN and as usual with Syrian/Lebanese reportage, historic archiving and cliche journalism, the first Arab revolt was omitted from this series because it did not happen in Syria, Lebanon or Egypt!!!

[mavigogun]

This series has shed light on the view of some regarding recent history and contemporary ideology -in that, it is a great success, regardless of factual accuracy. As with any conception, it should not be incorporated directly, but scrutinized, considered, and appreciated for what it is.

[INEAS]

It is far from being an average, never mind great success! The part shown on March 3rd was outstandingly poor in terms of glorifying only Nasser as the only Arab leader who attempted to unite Arabs, it did not mention the 1973 October war with Israel, it jumped from 1967 war to the 1978 Egyptian-Israeli Peace signing agreement and neglected one of the most glorious acts of Arab nationalism, standing against emperialism; the Nationalization of Iraq's oil. I posted a comment under March 3 clip.

[melektawus]

We in the west need more of this sort of journalism. We know so little about the Arab world and outlook. Good work.

[vincentbluegrey]

Great series.