The telegrams tell a different story of intimate and co-dependent relationships with unpleasant and repressive regimes in Riyadh, Cairo, and Rabat.

与利雅得，开罗，拉巴特表面上的亲密无间和相互依存不同，电报上讲述的是另一个让人不快，感到压抑的故事。

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are also regimes that are seen increasingly by their own populace as either illegitimate or repressive or disconnected from the societies they claim to represent."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Smith says American academicians and journalists often cite a list of root causes for Middle East turmoil, in which the U.S., the West and Israel usually play a big part: a history of colonialism and economic exploitation, the creation of Israel and American support for the Jewish state, the politics of oil, Western backing of repressive Arab regimes and the U.S.military presence in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The Arab world is not like eastern Europe two decades ago, when repressive regimes tumbled because ordinary people suddenly dislodged the prop of Soviet power.

ECONOMIST: Tunisia and the Arab world