When these jokers get ousted, all the sudden we find out they weren't as popular as advertised, because only in the absence of dictators and thugs, in the absense of fear, can people say or write what they truly think... and survive. In a culture where children are indoctrinated into suicide methodology at 'public' school, can a family sit around the supper table at night and speak about their problems and about their 'government' knowing that their children will tell the teacher what is said?
A poll quoted on Fox this week set the support for terrorism among palestinians at 60%. I would say that even that is an overstatement, though there will doubtless be a core of people who know only hate from having it constantly drummed into their skull. After all, the propaganda of hate is pushed with a vengeance by very dedicated people, while truth is not pushed at all, but is just left there for people to stumble across. How often do we think they will stumble across it in a region where most every source of news is under Arab government control?