Citizens of the Arab world follow with great interest and enthusiasm of historical events in Tunisia and wonder about the future of the regimes in the region after the overthrow of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali as a result of political and social injustice that has been practiced for more than two decades.A revolution that is to highlight the crucial role of new technologies to move to towns, also raises important role in the West repugnate providing unconditional support for the continuation of a medieval dictatorships. The political revolution that lives Tunisia, shows that the same reasons that led to the overthrow of the dictator are the lack of freedoms, social injustice, intolerable levels of corruption and militarization of the country there are in other countries Arab world especially in the following countries: Algeria, a country rich in oil and gas has no infrastructure and the brothers of President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika are involved in corruption.
In Morocco, King Mohamed VI environment is enriched in a scandal, while the sons of Colonel Gaddafi Mouamar revolutionary have become princes who control the political and financial fate of the oil-rich country. For his part, President Hosni Mubarak is trying to turn his family, which already controls large sectors of the economy, a new member of the club of royalty in the Middle East.
Mauritania is the only country to escape this wave of corruption, thanks in part to the coups in recent years that forced another dictator called Ould Taehan Muhauiya. However, despite all this, the West continues to defend these regimes. In the case of Tunisia, the West considered Ben Ali until his overthrow "the model student", the very French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in 2008 that Tunisia live in a democracy.
Throughout the months that lasted the protests, the rulers of the West, except the U.S.. States, maintained a suspicious silence, even the head of French diplomacy, Michèle Alliot-Marie offered to counsel the rules of how to end the protests and refusing to give lessons in democracy to other countries.
Such an approach emphasizes the concept of the West selective in requiring some democratic countries and not others. The French-led European Union pressed the presidents of Ivory Coast, Sudan and Iran and on the other hand maintained a silence more than suspicious about is happening in the Arab world and especially in the Maghreb.
If West played a crucial role in the democratization of Eastern European countries, as it is doing the opposite to Arab countries. Not only supported the dictatorial regimes, but also provides them with looting the wealth of nations by allowing them to open bank accounts where they deposit the stolen items and authorizes them to buy property and stocks in large European companies.
With this behavior, the West is complicit in these crimes excellence. Another gift given to these dictatorships, is that the EU and for years no longer grants political asylum to those fleeing these bloody schemes. Worse, the West always says it is fighting against radical Islamic terrorist movements, and sociological studies show that, in large part, fanaticism is the direct result of social injustice and corruption of these dictatorships.
Despite all this, the West ignores this reality and these facts and alienates with dictators. Tunisian revolution is very revealing of a new political and social reality in the Arab world and especially in the Maghreb that is to confirm a new data fleeing dictatorships and West: 1-The riots and political changes in the Arab world do not depend on Islamic movements and scholars often emphasize multiple studies but much of the reaction of people unable to endure the humiliation, plunder, marginalization and unemployment.
In Tunisia, the Islamic movement banned Nahda (Renaissance) had no role in this change. Consequently, the overthrow of any Arab despot is very possible. 2-The crucial role of new communication technologies of Internet and mobile phone have been allowed to take pictures of the brutal actions of the police and the role of satellite television as well Alhiwar Aljazeera and digital editions of newspapers critical as Alquds Arab.
These new technologies provided a perfect coordination between the demonstrators of different Tunisian cities and most importantly informed the international public opinion about what was happening. 3-This survey confirms that the military is always ready to face the people and defend a corrupt regimes, because military commanders are aware that the international situation has changed with the emergence of international justice.
The turning point of the Tunisian revolution lies in the refusal by the chief of land forces, General Amar Rahid opening fire on demonstrators. This same military institution in Egypt that now prevents the appointment of Jamal Mubarak to succeed his father, Hosni Mubarak who has spent more than three decades in power and that their balance is worse than Ben Ali.
And even Egypt can live in a situation similar to some of Tunisia, at least this is what Arab commentators and stand out in different web pages since Friday night. 4 - The rise of Tunisia can be spread easily to countries of the region, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Egypt and others such as Jordan and Yemen.
The peoples of these countries suffer from corruption, unemployment and the systematic looting of wealth by a few close to power. On Friday night there were demonstrations in the capital Rabat, Cairo, Amman against Tunisia embassies waving to the revolution. Hundreds of blogs and web pages Arabs call Friday night from a solution to the Tunisian.
And in a surprising way, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Libya, Yemen and Jordan have announced they will not increase the prices of commodities such as milk, bread and oil. Besides Algeria announced compensation to the unemployed university. 5 - The facts tend to confirm that the West in supporting corrupt and dictatorial regimes, has become an obstacle to democratization in the Arab world and especially North Africa.
West and part of the problem.
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