From Egypt and Beyond…
…there is one phrase that I’ve kept hearing again and again: “The government is treating us in the same way as Israel is treating the Palestinians!”
The idea here is that people around the region identify and sympathize with the Palestinians not simply because they share a common culture or language (or for that matter an irrational hatred of Jews, unrelated to the Zionist colonization of Arab land, as some would have it), but also because they share a common experience of oppression and dispossession.
