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Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.

— Suzanne Fields

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

— Menachem Begin

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

— Adam Michnik

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

— Stephen Hadley

The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

— Rafik Hariri

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

— Walid Jumblatt

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

— G. Willow Wilson

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

— Walid Jumblatt

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

— Meir Kahane

Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

— Walid Jumblatt

✗Opposing Perspectives

In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.

— Stephen Kinzer