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النهار
Disappointment for Arabs
Abdullah bin Isa al-Sharif recounts his memories of a trip to Basra in 1989, and of later arriving at the Ruwaished crossing on the Iraqi-Jordanian border during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. There, surrounded by Arabs, he endured fear and hunger as the only Saudi in the group. He says that when one person refused to give him a piece of bread, it revealed the weakness of Arab solidarity. He came away disappointed by the absence of a union that could bring Arabs together in times of crisis, while the media instead drove them apart. He emphasizes that bullying will not change the values of Saudis, and wishes he could show six people who shared a tent with him just how open-hearted Saudis can be.
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