Overview
Examining the Arab footprint throughout threads of a shared language, a mostly shared religion, and overlapping historical experience, this discussion of cause and effect-huge population growth, demand for food, water, education, and jobs, in addition to issues of global warming and national and regional security-is the challenge as Arabs prepare to meet the intense pressures of the 21st century. Arguing that the most direct way of cleaning up the mess in today's Middle East is to remove the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the prop both for Arab illiberalism and for foreign meddling, this exposé suggests that perhaps the real problem of the Arab world is that it too closely mirrors the hypocrisies already present in the world.Author Biography
Peter Rodgers is a former Australian ambassador to Israel, a regular commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, and the winner of the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting on East Timor. He is the author of Herzl's Nightmare.
