The Economist is always a useful journal to visit if you need a reminder that the Middle East is much more than just the Israel-Palestinian conflict. “As Shia clerics weighed in with calls for an end to what they called systematic persecution, Sunni extremists accused the rafida, an abusive term for Shias, meaning rejectionists, of acting as a fifth column for Iran. ‘Today they besiege the religious police,’ howled one website commentator. ‘Tomorrow they will encircle the Eastern Province along with the Shias of Bahrain and with Iranian backing.’”
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