The condition of the Arab world over the past few years cannot please either friend or foe. Our problems still remain the same, even after the Arab Spring and the overthrow of some troublemakers and symbols of corruption.
Unfortunately, religion, common destiny, language and customs are proving incapable of unifying us. We seem to have agreed not to agree and doubt each other’s intentions.
It has become hard to differentiate between friend and enemy in today’s Arab world. One might have close friendship and common interests with somebody, but all of a sudden this friendship turns into bitter enmity. It is normal, then, in such an atmosphere, to find the people you had helped and sacrificed and shouldered heavy burdens for forgetting all that. They even tell lies about you and accuse you of treason and disloyalty. They might be the same people who had implored you to extend your hand to help them earlier, talking extensively about your merits and virtues.
Some of the accusations we used to hear in the Arab world have become excuses that everybody, even in small entities where people share similar customs, traditions, dialects, wealth, ties of kinship and sometimes marriage, rushes to use.
These entities even share hopes, aspirations and ways of thinking. They are entities that came into existence years ago to integrate their members, bolster joint work and also harness their enormous resources for the welfare and progress of Arab peoples.
The meetings of these entities have become ceremonial, with the flags of member states fluttering all over the place and spirited songs aired in the background on state channels. Seminars are organised for intellectuals to tell lies and speak about the false achievements of these entities, even though even fools do not believe them.
After the eruption of the Arab Spring revolutions, people can discuss issues that were impossible to raise earlier. Some people believed that minds had changed. This gave rise to a growing number of demands as communications thrived. Shock, however, was soon to come to Arab citizens who had hoped to wear a democratic suit that turned out to be too big for them. Perhaps the Arabs’ old suit was more suitable for them.
Meanwhile, some good leaders tried to fix the aforementioned entities, including, of course, the decaying Arab entity, which still reels from its wounds of the past, which have been made worse by fresh wounds.
These leaders did a lot, achieved a lot, stood by helpless people and rebuilt their ship in order to sail it to safety. They still give here and there, defend the historic rights of the Arabs and reconcile rivals so they can start a new chapter to prevent more bloodshed and destruction.
The envious, however, could not see this project of great leaders unfolding. These envious ones attempted to belittle the contributions of these great leaders. But when they failed to do this, they used their dirty pens to distort the image of these great leaders and the stance of their countries. The great leaders, however, rarely pay attention, believing that the dogs may bark, but the caravan will move on.
The people who managed to bring their tyrant down should stand by their new ruler, even if this new ruler does not have the qualifications to rule them. It is a matter of a few years (the span of a presidential term) and this ruler will be gone.
The economy of this country is collapsing. A country without an economy is like a man suffering rachitis. This man cannot walk or work because the disease disables all his limbs. By the same token, if a country has a devastated economy and its people’s demands are too big and need enormous budgets to fulfil, this country will inevitably be brought down to its knees.
But when the people who love this country made an attempt to help it financially, liars said they were doing it only to take advantage of the Suez Canal and other resources in the country, even as they knew that the state that was extending its hand to help their nation was one of the richest in the world and wanted nothing in return for its generosity.
These people stand to lose everything. The people who brought their tyrant down are blocking the road to their own well-being and prosperity.
These troublemakers who only serve foreign political agendas that do not want anything good for their country or its people must be brought down like the tyrant and his regime.
