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Out of the Middle East

It is time for Arab Gulf countries to stop being on the defensive and to accept their responsibility for what is happening in the region.

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Opposition graffiti in Bahrain. Ahmed Al-Fardan/Demotix. All rights reserved.

Yemen is lost, probably the same way the Arab world lost several other countries in the Middle East such as Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

Yemen may return one day, but not in the next decade, and it will be as disfigured as Lebanon was after the civil war, after it had once been famously referred to as the pearl of the Mediterranean.