Despots' designated distraction goes down drain

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised by the unrest in North Africa and Western Asia. Just how long did the local tyrants think that they could distract their pent-up and/or penned-up peoples with protests against Israel's "persecution" of the Palestinians? Do you think that some of the locals might finally have noticed that the leadership's policy of imprisoning the Palestinian "refugees" in perpetuity in so-called refugee camps right down to the third (fourth?) generation because they're more useful as pawns than as citizens is of no help whatsoever to the literally-poor and/or persecuted?

TOTJ Steve, phone home.*