Those who pay attention to the Middle East are familiar with the phenomenon in which the region’s villains tell different stories to western audiences (in English) and domestic audiences (in Arabic). They get away with this because the western media almost never reports speeches given in Arabic. Whether this is because they are just too lazy, or because, for political reasons, they don’t actually want to expose these villains, is not clear. (Probably it’s some of both.)
Thus we had the spectacle in which Yassir Arafat was perfectly open about how the Oslo treaty was a ploy for the PLO to gain what it could, after which they would return to war (which is exactly what happened) — but he only said it in Arabic so it was not widely reported.
Thus, when the Muslim Brotherhood (the “moderate” and “secular” group likely to end up in control of Egypt) publicly laments the passing of Osama Bin Laden, they just do it in Arabic and most in the west will never hear about it.
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