Pour mémoire, durant le grand « sit-in » en centre ville de Beyrouth en 2007-2008, une grande affiche accrochée au pont routier surplombant l’endroit montrait Chavez, Nasrallah et Nasser :
Je l’avais déjà rappelé l’année dernière :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/55584
Angry Arab vient d’ailleurs de signaler la popularité de Chavez parmi les jeunes arabes :
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2013/03/chavez.html
But this is what I wish to note to you: there is such enormous outswell of support and sympathy for him. His pictures are all over Arabic pages on Facebook and Tweets have been dedicated to him. I never realized how much he — or enemies of US and Israel — strike a chord with Arab youth. Several called him another Nasser, although he had no charisma to speak of.