"Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.“


-James Buchan

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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

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