There was a time when Arabs were killed by the Jews and this killing was clearly displayed in TV local as well as international. One of the reasons for me to hate Israeli Jews was because of the killings of Arabs Muslims and Christians by the Jews in the occupied land of Palestine for fighting for their rights. When the Arab Muslim sovereign country Kuwait was invaded by another Arab Muslim country Iraq in 1990, it was the most shocking news of the post second world war era. The brutality that Iraqi Arabs committed on innocent Kuwaiti Arabs made me to ask a question, "Is my brother really my brother?" Iraqi Arab invaders instead of protecting Kuwaiti Arabs with respect and dignity, ignoring their solemn responsibility to treat the invaded citizens humanely, instead shamelessly asked the question thus: "Am I my brother’s keeper?" Being unable to bear the brutality and betrayal of Iraqi Arab invaders many Kuwaiti Arabs said to themselves, "it would have been better if we were invaded by our enemy Israeli Jews and treated us thus by them instead of by our so called Arab brothers from Iraq”.
There was a time Arabs joined together to fight against their common enemy the Jews who are enjoying the usurped land of Arab Palestinians. But to the enjoyment of Jews, Arabs are now killing their own Arabs and these killings in innumerable number we saw recently in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria, Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world. What is wrong with the current Arab World so as to lose them their sanity? If they had not to lose their sanity they would not massacre their own citizens for asking more freedom and better facilities for them from their rulers. The rulers of the Arab nations now undergoing turmoil looks like imitating Marie Antoinette and telling their disgruntled citizens ‘Eat Cake if there is no Bread’.
When Marie Antoinette gave the above reply we know what the outcome was. Husni Mubarak of Egypt took the right decision by stepping down from the power otherwise his head would go the way that of Marie Antoinette. People now want freedom and more freedom. Human urge for freedom and more freedom will never die down. For the Arab leaders like Col. Mohammed Ghaddafi to rule Libya without democratic mandate from his people for over three decades means foolish thing. Only thru the suppression of human rights such leaders succeeded in ruling for such a long period and thereby acquiring the robes of self proclaimed Monarchs. Their long rule made them unconstitutional Monarchs. Such Monarchs will never last. As it is we have seen constitutional Monarchs are collapsing like pack of cards and what about the unconstitutional ones?
It is a hard fact that in the Arab World in general and Muslim world in particular the urge to fight for democracy and human rights is very low. What uprising taking place currently in the Arab World is just the beginning of the terrible events to come? NATO and big Western Powers are now directing the course of action in Libya where in NATO bombings one son of Col. Ghaddafi is already killed besides his three grandchildren. Like Saddam Hssein’s Sons, the second son of Ghaddafi may also go soon. NATO and Western Powers are doing what they are asked to do by the Arabs only. West has involved in Libya on the request of Libyans opposing Col. Ghaddafi and also by other Arabs only to save more Libyan lives from getting killed by Ghaddafi’s brute force. Col. Ghaddafi has no marbles in his underwear to face the might of West and NATO. In such case he should abdicate his throne and disappear from the scene like Husni Mubarak thereby saving further bloodbath of his own Libyans. The fight in Libya is not the fight between Arabs and Jews. It is a fight between Libyan Muslim Arabs only. Christian West is come there on the request of Muslim Arabs to save the lives of Muslim Libyan Arabs. What Muslim Arabs cannot do the Christian West is doing. This is a hard fact one has to admit, whether one likes it or not.
From the ongoing events in the world and upheavals in the Arab World, one can say that only the West headed by US can save the world from disaster. Only thru democratic process involving the masses and quenching the thirst of more rights of the masses the current turmoil in the Arab world can come to an end. Religious fanaticism will not solve the problem in the Arab and Muslim world. The new western educated generation will not accept discrimination based on religions and also suppression of their rights for more and better facilities. The earlier the Arab and Muslim leaders realise this the better for them and for their countries. ‘Demos’ have awakened now and youth are become conscious of their rights. To stop them from fighting for their rights is impossible. They are already on the move and they will go on moving further till their rights are granted.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
