WHAT A DESTINY .....

I want to describe today , what in my opinion the Arab world is turning into and where it is headed . At the cost of repeating myself ,  in the 40's , 50's and maybe the 60's of the last century, the Arab world and its populations was still capable , or still could have veered itself into some sort of enlightenment , an Arab Renaissance if you would .


Young people , in most Arab countries were offered and going through a fair degree of education at all levels , the youth were generally energized , optimistic , creative and hopeful for their own and their nation's future . They were the nucleus of a brighter future for a whole generation of young aspiring Arabs .


Of course , many reasons , rational and explanations were given as to the why and how , and to what contributed later to the decline and failure of this dream , mostly attributing the whole situation to  Western and Israeli  wars , interventions , exploitations and direct secret agencies manipulations .


There is no denying or belittling of those responsibilities  from the colonialism era to the forcefully imposed creation of Israel and its subsequent millions of Palestinian refugees , to the general present and actual chaos .


But , and to be fair to ourselves and to history , we'd have to admit and accept the responsibility of Arab populations themselves ,Arab leaders, Arab kingdoms and Emirates , death-dealing factions , assassinations , aggressions and defeat in wars,  Arab military coups d'etat , bringing to power brutal military dictators , there is no shortage here of listings .


Of course adding to it all is Islam !!  and its sure influence on the closing of the Arab mind , Arabs are as responsible as they are victims of the false pride in their historical past , secular and religious , imbibed with the inherited Hebraic notion of grandiose and superiority, of being God's chosen propagators and promulgators , translated through old applications of religious social , economic and political archaic ways , further separating them from modernity and civilized societies .


This pseudo marriage between dictatorship and Islam , always advocating sincere intentions and betterness , while imposing ruthlessly their doctrines and ideologies over the Ummah . From eccentric and lunatic Qaddafi , to sanguine and brutal Assad , to Utopian and merciless Saddam , or the eternal Saleh of Yemen , whether the living in some other times and sphere of reality Saudis , Bahrainis or Moroccans , the theological regime of Sudan or the military regime of Algeria , they all strongly contributed to the annihilation of the Ummah , its secularism and democracy , Islam and the dictators were the real enemies of the Arab dream of union .


Arabs missed having the illuminated American founding fathers , or some enlightened European thinkers , not even a Singapore type sincere and clean dictator , but !!!! Instead they had their fill of brutal dictators , corrupt administrators and theologians and theocracies leading them carefully and systematically to their sad present .


Lucky are Americans and Western peoples in general for their heritage , for their separation of state and religion , for their democracies , when not tempered with by the powerful ,  hoping people will not take lightly what was achieved  throughout  our history , and not succumb to childish and immature bickering or political and financial profiteering or blindly follow  Neocons adventurism , hegemony and false superiority , whether local or foreign .        Many thanks for listening .