Israel And The Arab Spring
By Salim Nazzal
25 August, 2011
Countercurrents.org
From the very beginning Israel feared the Arab revolutions, this has been expressed by low key Israeli politicians despite the official policy was not to comment. Yet Netanyahu's speech to the American congress about the Arab revolution is an empty talk because Israel knows before anybody else that democratic Arabs will be stronger in fighting Israel. In the past Arab dictators fought the apartheid state Israel and lost almost all battles. Some of them like Egypt and Jordan surrendered and became a garrison to protect the Zionist state. Israel also knows well that it can dictate (by the help of the USA) its policy on the dictatorship regimes but it could not do that with democratic regimes.
Many examples provide the evidence between the past and now, and let’s pick the latest: Israel killed by (mistake) three Egyptian soldiers and the killing did not go soft as it used to be, and all Egypt protested and still protesting which is a clear message to Israel that Mubarak time is over.
Moreover the democratic change in the Arab region would lose Israel the card of (the only democracy in the Middle East) which has never been the reality, but which played on for years to conceal its ugly face. However, the ugly face of the Zionist state could be new to those who were brain washed by the Zionist propaganda, but not for Palestinians who are the victims of the Zionist brutality over the past 60 years.
The paradox now that the Arab region is changing towards the culture of democracy and human rights, while the state of Israel is moving towards the ultra right wing and the fundamental religious culture. And it is no wonder that the ultra right and neo Nazi parties in Europe and the US view the state of Israel as their model state.
And as the Arab spring is moving from one country to another, the Zionist worry increases and the Arab hope towards construction a democratic countries increase too.
What about the future of the Arab revolutions? This is not an easy question to answer bearing in mind that it might take years before the new democratic Arab region is implemented. But it is not difficult to predict that as soon as Arabs succeeded in arranging there domestic homes the conflict with the apartheid state of Israel will be resumed but on new rules.
Dr Salim Nazzal is a Palestinian-Norwegian historian in the Middle East, who has written extensively on social and political issues in the region
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