ASG's counter-hegemony unit

Funny how the Arab public was never referred to as such in western discourse but as the “Arab street”, with all the negative connotations of irrationality and violence such a term carries. Funnier still that the term “Syrian street” is not used to refer to the supporters of the sectarian warlords, executioners and terrorists, who constitute far less than a majority of the population, but the much more civilized and rational concept of “the Syrian people” and the Western, human rights-friendly notion of “Syrian activists”. So this is the criterion: when an Arab public peacefully protest against the US or its stooges, or launch an intifada against the Zionist regime, they are a street. When they kill fellow Arabs, and in so doing serve Israeli and US interests, they are a people. Got it?