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Maysaloon, a Syrian blogger commenting [ar] on recent news writes: “Oh Arabs!!!! The largest U.S. embassy in the world is opened today in Baghdad and people of Palestine and Iraq are being killed and their sanctity violated before our eyes. Where are the Arabs? Where are the weapons and the resistance? Our countries are being taken by western countries in front of us, but we run behind the dance, and fun. Arabs, shame on you.”

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