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East and West... Legitimate Powers and “Gangs”
Published in AL HAYAT on 24 - 03 - 2011

Is the Arab League “rebelling” against the legitimacies in some of its states? Is it not repeating in Yemen the same condemnation it expressed toward the crimes being perpetrated against the civilians in Libya? Moreover, some might maliciously ask about the motives behind the League's reliance on the American-European pressures on Arab countries, although it would be rare to see a defense of these states' human rights record that has become a purely international one, allowing – under the cover of the UN – to jump over the sovereignty considerations and the choices of the legitimate powers at the level of “domestic affairs.”
As surrealistic as the accusation of the League of relying on foreign pressures to salvage itself from the uprisings and elude the day on which it will be held accountable for what it did to serve the Arab people may be, even more surrealistic is imagining this institution which is considered to represent the image of the sick man throughout the region, securing an initiative for dialogue between the Arab legitimate authorities and the uprisings' legitimacies, before the volcano topples entities and states.
Is it better to see the scenario of the Arab leaders' open summit to prevent the conflict between the legitimacies of the governments and the legitimacies of the uprisings from sliding toward factional, religious or sectarian courses?
The military operations being carried out by the West under an international-Arab cover to protect the civilians in Libya, have not yet stopped the bloodbath in Colonel Gaddafi's Jamahiriya whose border has somewhat surpassed Tripoli and Bab al-Aziziyah… Once again, the American and French signals are pointing to the likely disregarding of the Colonel's stay in power, as soon as his ability to target the oppositionists in Benghazi and other cities in the East is undermined. And with the formation of the temporary government, the preliminary map of the fait accompli is completed, at the level of the emergence of Eastern Libya and Western Libya. It is a repetition of the fate of the two Sudans which – right after the secession of the South – immediately started planting the seeds of a war over the border… in which the two legitimate powers, the tribes, the military and the oil wells are intertwined.
As for Yemen, its army and presidential guard were led toward a conflict between the legitimacy of the rule and the legitimacy of the uprising. The country is presenting a blunt example of American opportunism and is repeating – in some facets of its crisis – the same images of the delayed concessions, the failure of the rule to appear as a victim, but also the failure of the opposition to seize the dialogue initiative to save the “happy Yemen” from the misery of seeing its unity dissipating.
American Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – who is raising concerns in regard to his possible attempt to implicate the Egyptian revolution in the sands of the Libyan desert – did not find anything alarming at first at the level of the turmoil in Sana'a, Aden, Taez and Mukalla except for the “shifting of the attention away from Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula.” As for the death of fifty demonstrators in the “dubious” bullets incident, it is a purely domestic affair. For its part, the regime barricaded itself behind “media terrorism” in an attempt to justify the disaster. Even on the eve of “Friday of the March Forward,” it is unfortunate that the remnants of the authority are still dealing with the uprising with expired tools, by resorting to parliament for example in the absence of over half its members, in order to secure legitimacy for the state of emergency.
And while President Ali Abdullah Saleh warned that the next day following his exit from the palace, civil war will erupt, this is only a card to contain the action's momentum. The seeds of this war were planted ever since the so-called “secession war”, which erupted in 1994, was settled, and after the socialists remained quarantined under heavy fundamentalist security within an environment of poverty and isolation in what used to be known as South Yemen.
As for the model of the Syrian protests, while it is also summoning American-European pressures under the headline of the internationalization of human rights, it is bringing back to mind the lesson of the Turkish “master” (Erdogan) who issued advice regarding the relinquishing of undemocratic practices before it was too late, while forgetting that Turkey was exercising boundless oppression against the journalists.
The motives behind the concerns of the Turkish master – following the Iranian one – do not spare the Arabs from the disastrous inability to listen to the domestic arena, and the sin of handling the demands with the ideology of making up enemies and fictive gangs that are hijacking the region, its people and countries.
As for the new facet of the earthquake, it is another disaster threatening the Palestinians, just because some of those governing them with the sword of the “national program” to resist Israel, provoked Israel to elude the turmoil on the street and the anger of the poor in Gaza.


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