Protests in London and Israel

I want to do what the New York Times did with the Arab protests: how it strove to attribute them to a retired American professor and his writings. So here we go:  it can be argued that Israelis and British people in London read the writings of, say, Naguib Mahfouz, and decided to protest.  Oh, yeah.  How do you like it when we do it to you?  Do you know how silly you sound?