Word: east
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This is life in the Middle East...
...framework of Friedman's analysis of the Middle East is Assad's destruction of Hama, which the author feels characterize the three conflicting elements that have caused conflict in the Middle East: tribe-like loyalty, authoritarianism and modern nation-state building...
Hama Rules are the only ones that apply in the Middle East, but the U.S. cannot understand them. Players obeying the Hama Rules orchestrated the 1983 suicide truck bombing attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut. Even Israel follows the rules--it invited Phalangist militia into the Lebanese towns of Sabra and Shatila and failed to stop the massacre of up to 1000 people...
This was one of the most disturbing elements of Friedman's assignment, the disillusionment of a Minneapolis Jew who idealized Israel as a "City on the Hill" in the Middle East but found its actions sometimes too similar to those of the other factions in the area...
According to Friedman, the Palestinians were never the most brutalized people in the Middle East, but they were easily the most humiliated...