Middle East Focus-Arabia Deserta: Octogenarian Arab Leaders, President “Overflowing Peace” of Palestine…….

Arabia Deserta

Octogenarian Arab Leaders, President “Overflowing Peace” of Palestine…….

“The state of health of Arab leaders is not well. Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak is convalescing from surgery to remove a ‘growth’ in his stomach. The Palestinian president ‘slips’ on the floor of his bathroom and decides not to return to Ramallah, at least for now. As for the age of dotage of other Arab leaders, no need to explain that here, for a majority of them are in their late seventies or eighties. The Egyptian and Palestinian presidents have one thing in common in that neither has appointed a vice president. The first one wants to hand power and the country to his son, the other may be thinking about it but has no time and no state to hand over, besides there is a successor ready in the form of Salam Fayyadh……..” al-Quds al-Arabi

By these Middle East standards, the radical trouble-makers like al-Assad, Ahmadinejad, and Nassrallah are babies in their forties. As are some of the suspects of Iraq like al-Maliki and al-Sadr.
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