I apologize for the hiatus in my postings–I was vacationing in an area with very limited internet access. On the one hand, it was liberating not to think about world politics for a while. On the other hand, I was somewhat lost, wondering what was going on in the world. As I have been catching up, I have been struck by some stories that don’t seem to be highly visible that I consider to be of great importance.
The first is the continuation of the tactic of self-immolation in the Arab world. There have been many stories about the violence in Syria and the elections in Egypt. But the continuing protests in other Arab states is receiving little attention in both the Western and Arab presses. The Arab spring is far from over.
But the global protests against governments, of which the Arab spring is a critical part, also has surfaced in other areas of the world (Occupy Wall Street is another such movement). Protests in Romania have been going on for about a week now, and have grown increasingly violent.
Finally, it’s the Chinese New Year!!!
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Let’s see I agree with some of this stuff but there are some other things that I don’t agree on. I think that the Arab spring is about over. Now if we think about Tunisia which is where everything started. We’ll notice that the president was taken out of his spot ( which is awesome ) but the rest of the government is still there. Now , if we compare between the situations before and after the revolution in Tunisia it wouldn’t be that much better. Egypt is about the same thing they kicked Mobarak out but the government is still controlling the people. It’s not that much better either. I am an Arab and I enjoyed every second of the Eqyption revolution but to be fair it was not organized which resulted in not getting the goals out of it. I am Palestinian and after the revolution in Egypt , Egyptions were more supportive of the Palestinian cause now when they chose to walk towards the borders between Egypt and “Israel” we saw them being stopped by the Egyption army. Adding to that the oil agreement between Israel and Egypt was not cancelled after the revolution even though most Egyptions are against it. Where I am going is, most of the revolutions in the arab world were a great help in reducing the people’s anger and making them think that they made a difference while the daily life after the revolution is not that much better.
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