Upheaval and the Return of Pan-Arabism http://www.voltairenet.org/article168812.html

The forces that have historically worked to destabilize and divide the Arab world are still at play, but their ability to ultimately win the game has never been more uncertain. In this overarching survey of the political earthquakes that continue to shake the Arab World, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya points to the rebirth of Pan-Arabism as a potent unifying force and a formidable game-changing factor.

Protests and revolts have swept across the whole of Arabdom, from the Atlantic coastline of Morocco to the shores of the petro-sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf. In this regard, U.S. and E.U. double-standards are being applied to these events. There is selective focus and selective condemnation by the White House and the European Union at play in regard to which Arab protests and figures they support and which they do not.