OPINION

Arab fraternity weakens and hegemons rule

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/11/2025

» 'This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," wrote T S Eliot in 1925, probably responding to the profoundly unsatisfactory aftermath of World War I (although with a poet, you never really know). At any rate, it's happening again, this time in the Middle East.