The unsafe exit of the Arab tyrants

The tyrants do not learn from history; if they learn from him what they have overwhelmed, wronged and corrupted. This is a summary of our experience with dictators and dictators who have ruled us for the past half century. It seems that these dictators have learned nothing from the near - not distant - history of their predecessors, who have fallen and trampled their people with their feet, as happened in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Algeria and Iraq during the two decades. The last two.

What the Arab tyrants do not understand is that the end of their tyranny is not only inevitable, but also tragic, and to the extent of their tyranny and tyranny is the scene of their end. Yet they make the same mistakes as their predecessors, both murdered and murdered, as was the case with Louis XVI, the last king of France, beheaded in the late 18th century.

As happened with the tyrants of the twentieth century, the most important of them is the President of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed with his wife by firing squad in a square in the capital Bucharest after the Romanian revolution in 1989, and ending with Muammar Gaddafi and Ali Abdullah Saleh. Or of those tyrants who were deposed and imprisoned, as is the case with Hosni Mubarak, and other coup generals in some Latin American and African countries.

It is true that some tyrants and dictators have escaped from reckoning and punishment, but they have left their countries in a state of chaos, and are like ruins that require a lot of money and souls for reconstruction and reconstruction. Not to mention the destruction of the social fabric and values ​​of coexistence, as happened in Iraq after Saddam Hussein, in Syria under the rule of Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar, and what happened after the fall of Gaddafi in Libya, and Saleh in Yemen, and what happened in Sudan under the rule of Omar al-Bashir.

The tyrants read from the same book of tyranny, and repeat writing the same lines without creativity or renewal. They begin with good words about reform and change, respect for the constitution, the release of freedoms, etc. A few years later, the oppression begins to backtrack on their promises, turn against their promises, and deceive those who brought them to power, whether the people or their representatives.

Then the entourage and followers begin to promote their eternal survival in power under various pretexts, until God decides what was in effect. If the people rise up against their rule, they accuse him of conspiring against them and "working for third parties," and if "the hour of truth" - as Gaddafi once said - raise the slogan "Either we or chaos!".

Mubarak did it when he came to power after the assassination of Sadat in the early 1980s (who also began his rule with a political reform known as the “revolution of the correction”, and released the detainees, especially from the Islamists, and then ended up arresting all the symbols of the political class in the early eighties); He proclaimed some political reforms that he quickly retracted, and began a new era of repression and corruption.

Mubarak's famous "shroud Malouche-pockets" - a reference to his rejection of corruption - remains testimony to his lie. We learned before the end of last year that a European court had refused to release his money, which is about half a billion dollars.

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali did so in Tunisia in the late 1980s when he promised political reforms after the end of the Habib Bourguiba era. He called for new elections, the first to turn against them, arresting his opponents and closing the public sphere. After his overthrow, we discovered the enormous amount of money and gold he held in his presidential palace in the suburb of Sidi Bou Said, not to mention what was smuggled in secret accounts for him and his wife Leila Trabelsi and her family.

So did the Sudanese General Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan thirty years before his fall, where he has been manipulating his people and promises reform, abundance and prosperity, calling on him to be patient with him on the "difficult economic conditions and external challenges," and invoking his allies and followers of the cartoon parties, which collapsed to defend his survival in Authority under the banner of "national dialogue"; until it fell and ended in April of this year.

There is no safe way out for the Arab tyrants from power; they have closed all the doors of repentance and return to tyranny, and atonement for their crimes, and did not leave their people a chance to return to ensure a safe exit to preserve their security and freedom after their end became known, and their destinies are expected, which is either isolation or imprisonment or Exile or murder.

It would not be a fantasy to say that the fates of the remaining Arab tyrants - such as Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman - would not differ much from those of their predecessors, such as Mubarak, Ben Ali, Saleh, Bashir, Gaddafi and Saddam. They all wrote their end with their own hands, and they became hated from the ocean to the Gulf. Insulting and attacking them has become a common ritual of freedom and dignity for Arab protesters and revolutionaries.

Now, you will find no demonstration or protest - in any Arab or Western capital - unless the demonstrators and protesters attacked these remaining tyrants, and considered them a model of injustice, tyranny, corruption and criminality, which has paid - and is still - the price of many.

Over the past months, we have heard demonstrators chanting in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Syria and finally Lebanon against Sisi. We saw the destruction of statues and banners of Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman in Arab capitals such as Beirut and Tunisia. This hateful trio became a symbol of the counter-revolution that aborted the Arab Spring's dream and slaughtered it with a cold knife.

Tyrants learn from each other how to tyrannize and practice their tyranny, but they do not learn from each other's fates, and how they can end up if they continue to tyranny, and if they had learned not to overwhelm and tyranny.