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Article Source: Yahoo! NewsTrying to minimize the defeat, Arabs have long called the Six Day War the "naksa," or "setback," but its impact remains a deep wound.
Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for "everything" — from "price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence."
Well, I've heard a lot of different things blamed on the Jews, but this is definitely a first for me...
Islam always needs a scapegoat for being poor, weak and ignorant. For a long time the Mongols were the scapegoat. Arabs blame their troubles on the Turks, who ruled them for centuries and the Turks blame the stagnation of their civilization on the dead weight of the Arab past in which the creative energies of the Turkish people were caught and immobilized. Then there was the Western imperialism of the French-Anglo paramountcy. Now it is the United States and Israel.
The inability of five Arab states and armies to prevent "a gang of contemptible Jews" from establishing a state in the debris of the British mandate for Palestine is enough to emasculate any Muslim.
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