In some European democracies and other rising ones among the so-called states of the Soviet Space, we are repeatedly seeing deputies hitting their colleagues whenever the talk is meaningless or features slander. In some Arab spring states, fist-fighting has become a civilized language of the past, considering that strikes with missiles and air bombs has become prevalent. In individual cases, whoever says no becomes a traitor, worth having his life or any of his limbs severed. At the end of 2012, can one thus ask about the reason behind the retreat of hope and happiness? Is the suffering of a homeless person in London similar to that of a displaced Syrian among the neighboring states or a devastated Palestinian in the Yarmouk Camp? Throughout the world, happiness is retreating, with the children of the victims of war in Syria emerging every day and children being murdered with the bullets and knives of the insane from America to China. Also in our world, we have our share of insanity. There is more scientific progress, more weapons markets, more brutality among humans, millions of starving people and dozens, if not hundreds of illiterate politicians. On New Year's Eve, the Arabs are receiving their gifts, the greatest of which is to the brave Syrians in the midst of their predicament. Indeed, Tehran informed them there was no solution but the Iranian one! Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi who handled the delivery of the gift almost rendered Lakhdar Brahimi an Iranian envoy to Damascus, bearing the six clauses of this unique settlement. And on New Year's Eve, a poor unemployed man in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid chose to follow in Bouazizi's footsteps, committing suicide with an electric bolt. Why is hope retreating following the departure of the dictator? Did Ennahda not offer a gift to the citizens with a project to import 20,000 Tuk-Tuk vehicles which will provide 20,000 jobs to their drivers? The answer in the context of the battle between the taxis and the famous Tuk-Tuks in Egypt, which lightly rock in its streets, was delivered by the head of the taxi-owners' syndicate who accused the government of Ennahda movement of having issued a dictatorial decision and of carrying out indirect maneuvering, since 60,000 Tunisians live off this sector. What is worse at the level of head of the syndicate Maaz al-Salami's answer is that while he did not provoke a crisis with the Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood rule, he might provoke one between Ennahda and the MB, as he considered that Tuk-Tuks were among the facets of backwardness. As for the spring's gift to the Egyptians, it is what some dub the constitution of one third of the voters. In that sense, the abstinence of two thirds of the voters from participating in the referendum constituted the brightest facets of democracy, since the MB constitution's oppositionists had their say in silence, before it was signed by President Morsi and caused the loss of a round by the parties due to boycotting. From Tehran, Salehi addressed the Syrian oppositionists by giving them a choice between the Iranian solution or further death and destruction, without any hope of seeing a settlement. In Al-Anbar yesterday, they shouted “Iran is governing Iraq." The paradox at this level resided in the borrowing of terms from the states of the Arab spring, granting the thugs in Tehran a stronghold that is undermining security through theft and thuggery. And this thuggery, according to many inhabitants of the region, is a characteristic of an Iranian diplomacy that is exerting pressures and practicing intimidation via branches abroad, and through a nuclear power aiming at deterring all the sides. In reality, the Arab world at the beginning of the spring of its revolutions, is faltering inside a triangle composed by Turkey, Iran and Israel, regardless of the extent of Ankara's sympathy towards the issues of the region - and Erdogan's projects – and towards those complaining about the prevalence of Iran's thuggery, whether under the Palestinian headline or that of the brotherhood among the Muslims. Between the Iranian thuggery in the Gulf, the ultimate thief Israel which is swallowing the West Bank and what is left of the Palestinians' rights, and Turkey which is drowning in the dreams of the sultans and the calculations of the exposed conflict with Iran over Iraq, the Arabs have no option but to show wisdom to exit the predicament. Indeed, when the stay of whichever regime becomes a condition for the survival of the people, the only wisdom and hope left is with its departure. And when the militias become a fort to protect the acquisitions of the revolution, the odd comparison will be renewed between a collapsing dictator and another rising one.
