Article: Arab Brat Pack: New rulers raise hopes for Mideast peace

Arab Brat Pack: New rulers raise hopes for Mideast peace

By DAVID PLOTZ

Sunday, June 25, 2000

The Western media, for whom Arab autocrats usually have as much appeal as agriculture subsidies, are gaga over the Arab Brat Pack.

The dashing royals who inherited power last year -- 38-year-old King Abdullah of Jordan and 36-year-old King Mohammed of Morocco -- have been joined by 34-year-old Bashar Assad, who's taking his father's job in Syria.

The Brat Packers are Western-educated, adore the free market, surf the Web and seem more interested in joint ventures with Israel than attacks on it.

Bahrain and Qatar also have new reform-minded emirs, and young bucks are clamoring to run Egypt, Kuwait and ...

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