Thoughts on Repression in the Middle East

Read this and this (via this).  The second link to a Dubai-based Arab op-ed basically says, the Zionist entity is bad, but our own Arab dictators are even worse!  It's a start.  Here's a bit of it:

Unlike in some Arab countries, Arabs living inside Israel can organise sit-ins very comfortably. And when the Israeli police intervenes, they never beat demonstrators to death. And if we compare how Israel treats Shaikh Raed Salah with the way some Arab dictators treat their opponents, we will be horribly surprised, as the Israelis are very much less brutal ... 

Israel can always claim it is facing an enemy, whereas Arab dictators are facing their own people.