I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.