Arabs blame problems on 1967 war defeat

Fourty years after getting decimated by the Jews, the Muslim world is still unable to cope with it. It is good to see that they admit it! Now they just have to get past this defeat and learn to live with the rest of humanity. Finally.

Arabs blame problems on 1967 war defeat: "On June 5, 1967, Israeli warplanes destroyed 400 aircraft belonging to Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq - most of them sitting on airport tarmacs. Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, Syria gave up the Golan Heights, and Jordan relinquished the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Trying to minimize the defeat, Arabs have long called the Six Day War the 'naksa,' or 'setback,' but its impact remains a deep wound.

Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for 'everything' - from 'price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.'

'A military defeat, that could have been limited, has been transformed to an overall defeat, represented by regimes ... and societies that fear change,' Syrian writer Bakr Sedqi said in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat."