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10 hr. ago, Marco Villa

You’d think that with all the problems facing Arabs and the impotency of Arab regimes in the face of Israeli aggression, that pan-Arab sentiment would be widespread and that all Arabs would take pride in the civilization that spread from tribes in the...

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