Yet the people keep trying. Even in Syria, current efforts at protests and democratic, elected councils. People try the moment guns stop.
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Can the Middle East get better? Of course. If Germany can be part of EEC (pre-EU) 10 years after committing genocide, so can these nations.
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Germany did not emerge alone. It was showered with aid & given a path out. Middle East remains a land for proxy wars—its people disregarded.
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I don't mean to minimize Middle East's problems. (Nope, no). Just maddening to see rest of world still do so much to make it even worse.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Hala Gorani
Sorry—Blair won't even have an embarrassing press conference.He'll just shrug off the reality that most can now see.https://twitter.com/HalaGorani/status/750689866954964992 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ayça Çubukçu
What planet am I on? Anyone know how to ping Juno to request a ride? Any app for that?https://twitter.com/ayca_cu/status/750704731593510912 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Phil Tinline
Germany welcomed back into humanity only few years after Auschwitz. But Middle East is ancient, unsolvable hatreds.https://twitter.com/phil_tinline/status/750724571851030530 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted New York Times World
You know who else it reopens wounds for? My Facebook is a wall of anguish & disbelief at Blair's "sorry, not sorry."https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/750751674382376960 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Fabian Diehm
Admittedly, it was much more homogeneous after killing almost all the Jews, Gypsies along with Slavs, Serbs, etc.https://twitter.com/Even_Odd/status/750754661674676224 …
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I'm not arguing that the Middle East is not troubled. It is. It's the lack of recognition that it's people are.. people. That's the problem.
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If you think I'm ranting. You should see what people from the the region say about Blair on social media. Can't reproduce in my PG-13 feed.
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Thank you
@xeni. ISIS is many things but popular in the Muslim world is not one of them. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/muslims-viral-tweet-isis-xeni-jardin …pic.twitter.com/znfYonnarf
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