Will it be a crazy new year? (1)

When the Greek philosopher Plato wanted to highlight the status of reason and philosophy in his time, he described the people as like a ship of madmen that needs a philosopher king who possesses reason and wisdom to lead this ship, and here is a new year starting from the age of the Arab nation that has been traveling in the ship of madness for several decades, waiting Wise leaders to lead it to safety, leaders who do not submit to their whims and moods, the whispers of their inner circle, and the dictates of their supporters, for madness left no hole but entered it.

The crazier thing is that the nation knows the details of this madness, and knows how to get rid of it, but it insists on continuing it, as if it is a source of comfort and happiness.

Madness dominated all groups and segments, and spread to various fields, from power to the elite to society and individuals, and from education to media to culture and thought... So will this year be an extension of this state of madness?

Or will it witness the start of the healing process, the eradication of madness hormones, as a prelude to leading the mind to leadership, and the rule of wisdom?

What the ruling authorities are doing against their people does not strengthen the pillars of the regime

and does not prolong its stay in power, but rather exaggerates the security forces and exacerbates their capabilities and expands their powers, in a way that threatens the future of the regime and accelerates its gradual erosion within a short period.

Mad power

Arab authorities of all kinds, forms and levels, including totalitarianism and democracy, hereditary, presidential and coup, civil and military, are practiced.

Sharp behaviors of political, economic and social madness, despite the accumulated long historical experiences about the administration of power and its duties and challenges, recent and old experiences, from those who preceded it in its homelands, or from those surrounding its homelands, or what is happening around it in the world whether developed or developing countries.

Despite these long experiences, the Arab authorities come every time riding on their arrogance, aggression, tyranny and indiscretion, indifferent to these experiences, and see the world only through the peephole of their rosy dreams that have no place above the crater of the world's volcanoes and their explosive lava.

Despite the enormity of the results and the effects pushed by the Arab nation, and despite the severity of the pain that its people suffer from, the spiral of madness is still spinning, refusing to end.

Among the most prominent manifestations of this madness:

Political regimes still derive their legitimacy from abroad, instead of the people they mislead, then divide, and then empower the section loyal to them to the rest of the sections.

Instead of working to provide appropriate environments for creativity, production and development, it provides security, repressive and liquidation climates, using all methods and methods, as if people dispose of their belongings however they want.

Whereas, the ruling authorities have the opportunity to gain the people’s support for them by carrying out their duties towards them, empowering them with their rights, recognizing all their national components, with their various spectra and intellectual and political orientations, and achieving reconciliation and consensus among them, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and the law, in a way that achieves the goals of the national state and its supreme interests. And in a way that strengthens and strengthens the ruling authority, and helps it to face its internal and external challenges.

More than half of the Arab countries are still suffering from deep internal political, economic and social problems, which have caused them to fall under the orgy of Western powers, and dependence on their international institutions for which they do not have any radical solutions, but rather more future crises due to loans and restrictions.

While the solution lies in achieving internal political détente, and ending the savagery against citizens, their families, their businesses, their money, their institutions, and their interests, which will lead to relieving tension, encouraging capital, shrinking internal forces, and the expected migrant forces;

To pump its capital, revive its business and expand its projects.

Some of these countries are trying to deal with their economic crises through continuous loans that increase their inability to repay year after year, or by reviving the economy through tourism and entertainment projects, instead of going to industry and production with competitive specifications, self-reliance to meet internal needs, and strengthening regional relations. And international markets to open new markets for its surplus production, and stimulate creative energies for the development of science, industry and production.

10 Arab countries (Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Somalia) are witnessing sharp political divisions or bloody armed conflicts, as a result of which lifelines were blocked, and economic, social, health, psychological and educational crises were exacerbated.

In it, the present stops at the thresholds of the past after losing hope in the future, and lives in an unprecedented state of madness, because of the illusions and delusions it believes in, the policies it adopts, and the practices it performs.

I cannot understand the nature of the mind that led the armed conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia, believing that these conflicts will decide for him control of power forever, disregarding the millions of victims of the dead, wounded, displaced and refugees, and indifferent to the destruction of the state and its institutions, cities, villages, factories, farms and schools and its universities.

Nor can I understand the nature of the incapacitated mind so far, in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Sudan;

On reaching common formulas that achieve national consensus on managing power and building the future.

Instead of being preoccupied with providing flimsy justifications for this impotence, which exhausts the state and the people and prevents them from advancing even a few steps.

I also do not understand the nature of the Palestinian mind, which has so far failed to unify its national ranks in the face of the Zionist occupation, and continues to mislead the people with reconciliation time after time, just as it continues to humiliate the occupation, and is unable to reach political solutions with the national forces that resist this occupation.

Continues cooperation with the occupation, which took its land and killed its people and tortured them for more than a century, and is unable to reach a settlement among the Palestinian national forces with which it unites a long history of struggle and a common national destiny, and with which it differs only in perceptions and struggle mechanisms for the present and the future.

I cannot understand the nature of the mind that in Tunisia relishes destroying the national democratic experience piece by piece, and justifies betraying all those who contributed to it in order to rebuild a new totalitarian rule, whatever the price that Tunisia and the Tunisian people will pay.

It's madness and nothing but madness.

Many Arab regimes intend to strengthen their pillars with their loyalists, especially in the security, judiciary and media sectors, knowing that these are mercenaries who only care about their interests, and they have previously flattered other regimes.

What madness stands behind these practices when he thinks that by doing this he will achieve stability and protect the pillars of the state from collapsing?

The greatest concern of the Arab authorities is to secure their survival in power, and therefore they place the internal security dimension with its apparatus and leaders at the top of priorities, to increase its brutality and brutality, and with it the internal situation to increase in tension, congestion, crisis and obstruction, while the matter does not need more than sincere openness to the people and their institutions, and empowering them To exercise their constitutional rights without fear, harassment, intimidation or misleading.

What the ruling authorities are doing against their people does not strengthen the pillars of the regime, nor prolong its stay in power, but rather exaggerates the security forces, exacerbating their capabilities and expanding their powers, in a way that threatens the future of the regime and accelerates its gradual erosion within a short period.

Many Arab regimes seek to strengthen their pillars with loyalists who are ready (formally) to sacrifice for their sake, not for the sake of the country and the people, especially in the security, judicial and media sectors.

And the regime knows that these are mercenaries, who only care about their interests, and they have previously flattered other regimes.

What madness stands behind these practices when he thinks that by doing this he will achieve stability and protect the pillars of the state from collapsing?

Last November, Morning Consult conducted a survey in 22 countries about people's attitudes to whether their countries are on the right or wrong track.

Among these countries are the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, Poland and Belgium, and the average score for these countries is that 75% believe that their countries are on the wrong path, and 25% believe that they are on the right path, although the people of these countries enjoy all rights Privileges and guarantees, and various means of luxury, and they are not subjected to security threats, confiscation of freedoms, prevention of expression, arbitrary arrest, killing, kidnapping, or absenteeism, and their governments change according to electoral cycles and election results, without the economy being shaken, the army collapsing, or the state falling into the hands of its enemies. .

For how long will the Arab authorities remain in this spiral of madness, and will this year be better than the previous ones?

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