Arab world directs anger at US and the west for Gaza devastation

© The Financial Times Limited 2024. All Rights Reserved. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way. Rashad has clashed with family about the US for as long as he can remember, defending America as a “force for good” when relatives railed against US military interventions. When they complained that Washington pushed “liberal […]

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Rashad has clashed with family about the US for as long as he can remember, defending America as a “force for good” when relatives railed against US military interventions.

When they complained that Washington pushed “liberal values” down Arab throats, Rashad replied that someone had to support human rights in an illiberal region. But “everything changed” after the October 7 attack on Israel, said the Lebanese-Saudi, as the US gave its staunch backing to the Jewish state’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza.

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