Bin Laden and Nakba http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/72937

Bin Laden was killed a while ago, not physically but as an idea. The idea suffered significant blows with the Arab Spring revolutions, which showed that it does not take violence to change our societies and remove US/Israeli backed dictators. Bin Laden's assassination and the continued state terrorism practiced by the US government and its allies, especially Israel, attempts to entrench the idea of violence as an answer.

The brutal assault on Syrian, Yemeni, Saudi and Bahraini demonstrators and the continued US military attacks in countries around the world are part of this human foolishness. They represent that wing of our global society that believes violence is the answer: the win-lose scenario. The hopeful ideas of popular resistance, freedom, democracy and an end to exploitation successfully challenged the notions of a ‘clash of civilization’ and ‘might makes right’.We thus remain hopeful, despite all the false news planted around us and all the false-flag operations, and despite the one million Iraqis and 50,000 Afghans killed by these wars.