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the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong

but did not bear responsibility for the errors of

he was never again the same person. He developed an

he had indicated to the few generals who

as I learned more details about what had

I recognized the very fact of our being caught by surprise made

the man who had addressed us on the sayeret

I asked everyone I interviewed on my trip to free-associate the first word they thought about when they hear “America.” There were numerous cynics (“greedy

ingraining a distrust in what leaders or the media says that borders on absolute.

” adds 17-year-old Buhary El-Quasamy. When I point out that both Obama and al Qaeda agree on the basic facts that the U.S. killed bin Laden

and a random YouTube video carries as much weight as a New York Times front-page story.

as evidenced by my conspiracy-minded Beirut coffee-shop friend. Ask this group

in an effort to win Arab “hearts and minds” in the mold of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe

or the death of Osama bin Laden—and even the most educated will start popping off inanities.

unchanged even by the collapse of the Twin Towers. But based on my recent trip across the region

but when El Aschkar notices an actual American in his shrine to America

62 percent either don’t believe the U.S. killed Osama bin Laden or they aren’t sure.

000 Egyptians reveals that a majority (53 percent) doesn’t believe that al Qaeda was responsible for the Twin Tower attacks—instead affixing blame to Israel

and as locked in combat until the end with the west and its clients. These included Saudi Arabia

Israeli strategists have identified an Iran-led regional alliance as representing the main strategic challenge to the Jewish state. This alliance looks to be emerging as one of the net losers of the Arab upheavals of 2011. This