The sad Arab diary of the time of Corona

While the world seems preoccupied with how to deal with the repercussions of the complex crises caused by the emerging Corona virus (Covid-19), people in Arab countries are still fighting and fighting as if nothing had happened.

And it does not seem that any of the Arab officials has excited or learned, or demonstrated a willingness to learn, to preach, and to think about what he did - and is still doing - this virus in the world, where he turned life upside down.

In an Arab country led by an enterprising young man, his forces kill a citizen, just because he refused to leave his land and home in favor of a huge economic project, which this young man seeks to establish. In another country, citizens are arrested and detained simply because they raised the call to prayer in a mosque without the permission of the authorities. In a third Arab country, aircraft do not stop bombing civilians and their institutions, such as schools, hospitals, markets, and so on.

Arab rulers, officials and politicians are not considered a tragedy of Corona, and what it does with individuals, markets and property east and west, and most of them think that it is safe from the virus and its repercussions. One of them participated in a meeting a while ago with his senior officials, and after discovering that some of them had been injured, he isolated himself for two weeks, then he went out on the people ecstatic and threatening, and continued his lie and repression.

While another gambled his country's fortunes, and entered into economic wars with great and foolish superpowers that are about to waste his country's wealth, without any accountability or oversight. While still a third immersed in it, he practices his favorite hobby in fueling and financing conflicts, supporting tyrants and warlords, and providing them with money and weapons, in order to continue the series of ruin in the region.

Despite the continuing calls from the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, to stop conflicts and wars, and to declare a ceasefire throughout the world to give an opportunity to deal with Corona, the region's conflicts are getting more inflammatory and hot, whether in Syria, Libya or Yemen. This is about major conflicts, or minor ones, and there is no embarrassment, as they are continuous and even increasing in the time of Corona.

The "ordinary" Arab begins his day with conflict, contagion and suffering, whether with the living conditions that might compel him to go out and work in order to survive, or with the bureaucracy of his country, which has no goal but to discipline and subjugate it under the feet of the state.

Take, for example, what is happening in Egypt. Despite restrictions of movement and the imposition of curfews, scenes of crowding do not stop, whether in public and private transportation, or in government departments, or in markets and stores. As if there is no global epidemic that spreads and increases due to human groupings !! This is also the case in other countries such as Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Morocco and Algeria.

Life seems normal, not because this is the desire of citizens, but because this is their life and circumstances that they are forced to deal with. Many “ordinary” Arab citizens do not have the luxury of homelessness or staying at home, enjoying social media, or watching Netflix and others From the movie platforms, to spend their time and kill their spare time.

On the contrary, they are forced to go out, go out and venture themselves to make a living. They are in a daily struggle greater than their struggle with Corona, which is a struggle for existence and survival. Someone does not harm his chances of contracting the virus if he ventures out, but he will inevitably be harmed if he does not go out to earn a living his day, or so he says to himself!

One of them leaves his home carrying the slogan, "Whoever did not die of the virus, died otherwise." Take, for example, the scene of dozens of Egyptians stranded in more than one Arab and foreign country, whether due to the refusal of their country to receive them, or because of the high costs of quarantine upon their return to the country, which amounts to thousands of pounds.

Many of them are members of the middle and poor classes who have traveled for livelihood and are in difficult economic and financial conditions. Some of them want to return not for the sake of life, but rather to die between his family and his family. Hear their appeals and pleas, and you get distress and sadness.

The scenes of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel continue to be watched as they do not have the minimum equipment necessary to fight the virus, while the rulers and media of their country proudly brag about sending medical aid and airplanes to transport the citizens of Western countries, without any consideration for their children's aids, in an outrageous moral and human way.

It also shakes the scene of the Moroccan child Ziad Youssef, who was injured in Coruna several days after he lost his mother, and feels sad for him and his family, who was distressed and distressed by what happened. These are scenes that have become ordinary, many of them repeated, just like scenes of destruction and killing in Syria, which have become something "normal".

Poor that sad Arab who does not have much to survive. He is now in an unenviable position. If Corona faces him as a potential danger, then wars, conflicts, and oppression - and with them fear, hunger, and poverty - stand behind him, a certain and present danger. He has to choose between both dangers, as long as the end is the same, or so says his mouthpiece.