„No, I don't think they've heard about it yet“ – my acquaintance said as we discussed the recent explosion in the coastal city of Sidon, Southern Lebanon. He was of course alluding to the fact that people in Northern Lebanon have very little interest in what happens down South. Details of the ambush which injured six people from the French contingent in UNIFIL, remained shrouded in mystery. 
Ever since America achieved superpower status, it has been following its own unique political and military doctrine, which ultimately the rest of the world has had to cope with. From the peculiarities of Eisenhower's military policy to Brzezinski and Kissinger's overt or covert foreign policy strategies, the large and small countries of the 20th century have had to adapt very carefully to the tempers of the Atlantic giant – for their own good.
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The Egyptian revolution has become a model for other Arab countries, a symbol of optimism for many in the Arab world. In early May this year I met with some Egyptian activists, among them George Ishaq and Bassem Kamal. 
According to Kamal Jumblat, a Lebanese politician and thinker from the mid-20th century, the Arab world and the East as a whole feel a sense of inferiority towards the West. This, he says, is due to the differences between the present world and the past, when the subject used to be more valued than the object.
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