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Article: Arab Brat Pack: New rulers raise hopes for Mideast peace
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- June 25, 2000
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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 ...