10 years have passed since the "Arab Spring" revolutions, 10 years of killing, destruction and arrest, 10 years of fragmentation, discord and disagreements, 10 years of successive political, economic, intellectual and social collapses, 10 years of infertility and impotence and failure to find realistic solutions to address the consequences and effects of these "Revolutions".
An additional 10 years of tyranny and authoritarian terrorism disguised with false slogans about democracy, modernization and preservation of public freedoms and human rights, 10 years of blindness and reluctance to draw lessons from what happened, and the implementation of the legislative reforms necessary to bring about internal détente, not reforms that consecrate tyranny and corruption and lay the foundation for more disasters and crises Deterministic in the near future.
Ten years have passed since the "Arab Spring" revolutions, and the general Arab street is still ignorant of what really happened, and why it happened?
Who is behind it?
And how the Arab peoples were drawn to it?
Was it really spring or windy autumn and freezing winter?
And what is the price paid by the Arab region for that?
Ten years ago, the general Arab street is still ignorant of what really happened, and why it happened?
Who is behind it?
And how the Arab peoples were drawn to it?
Was it really spring or windy autumn and freezing winter?
What was the outcome of the price paid by the Arab region - and still is - as a result of that?
Are we waiting for another spring and another wave of creative chaos?
Or will we find wisdom that helps us out of the abyss of fire and collapse and restore stability?
Many vital questions still raise controversy in elitist and popular Arab circles, due to the dust, wounds, pains, tragedies and emotions that are above them that block the door in the face of the mind, and turn it between it and rationality and wisdom.
In search of the truth
The director of a study center in Egypt told me that they prepared a report at the beginning of the "Arab Spring" events on the role played by the Serbian "Otpor" organization in changing the systems of government in a number of countries of the world, including some Arab countries, given the seriousness of the information they collected Because of its importance at that time, they provided a copy of this report to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, and it was a great surprise and shock to them that the General Intelligence Service is aware of this matter, and that it has been following up from an early age what this organization is doing in Egypt and elsewhere.
This incident definitively confirms that the Egyptian intelligence service was fully aware of the reality of what was going on, however, he allowed the fireball to roll around to complete the scenario.
The scenario, which was not new at all, had been tried in several countries before, with varying successes.
In May 2011 AD, the British "Journeyman Picture" company produced a documentary entitled "The Revolution Business" that mentioned a lot of information about the role of the Serbian Otpor organization and its founder Serdia Popovic in training several Arab groups to bring down authoritarian regimes by means. Nonviolence, and the training continued for 3 years before the start of the "Arab Spring" revolutions. The film clearly showed clips from interviews he conducted with Arab activists from several countries who received these training, and clips from training sessions and others with Popovitch himself, and with "Jane Sharp" The author of the book inspiring these revolutions, "From dictatorship to democracy," and although the film appeared on YouTube a few weeks after the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, and was translated into Arabic under the title "The Profession of Making Arab Revolutions," his number of views has not reached two thousand so far. .
Two strange things stopped me in this movie:
The first: the neglect with which I met with the specialized, well-known and widely spread Arab media outlets, this film, despite the importance of its subject matter, and the abundant information it has mobilized that greatly stimulates the journalistic appetite.
The second: the absence of Otpor, Popovic and Jane Sharp from the Arab political discourse, and the failure to demand that the countries affected by the "Arab Spring" revolutions arrest Popovich or pursue him and close his institution.
Who is Otpor?
And who is Serdia Popovic?
And who is Jane Sharp?
What is their relationship to the "Arab Spring" revolutions?
Sharp in Outpor
The statements of American officials about the new Middle East, support for democracy and the overthrow of authoritarian regimes, are too many to count, especially from the era of President George Bush Senior and even President Trump, and although achieving this is not an easy thing, it must be done, because of its implications. Multiple strategic interests of the United States and its partners.
In 1993 the first edition of the book (From Democracy to Dictatorship: A Conceptual Framework for Emancipation) was published by Dr.
Jane Sharp (1928-2018).
The book came in 90 pages and was translated into 34 languages, including Arabic. The book is a comprehensive practical reference for how to bring down dictatorial regimes by nonviolent methods, as it contains 198 operational ideas to do so.
The first successful experience of implementing what was mentioned in Jane Sharp's book in Serbia was in the period 1998-2000 AD, when the young Serdia Popovic founded the "Otpor" organization in 1998 AD with a group of Belgrade University students, with the support of the United States, to work to bring down the president's regime. Milosovic, by peaceful means, and Otpor succeeded in moving the Serbian street, who managed to topple the regime in October 2000, so that Popovic then turned into the architect of overthrowing dictatorial regimes by nonviolent methods in the world, inspired by all that was mentioned in Gene Sharp's book.
In 2003, Popovic established the CANVAS Center to implement nonviolent measures and strategies, to train activists opposing dictatorial regimes in their countries on how to bring them down by nonviolent methods. It hosted groups from more than 50 countries in the world, including Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine. Himself trains groups in confrontation or via the Internet, confirming the strength of Gene Sharp's book, which is suitable for all groups seeking change or seeking to impose their legitimate demands.
Soon the recipe was applied in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Lebanon before the start of the Arab Spring revolutions, under the same slogan and following the same steps.
Popovic soon became a media and academic star, hosted and written by major media institutions, and he lectures at major universities and international forums, talking about his successes in nonviolent democratic transformation, and in 2017 he was appointed president of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, United Kingdom, and the Canvas Center became an organization specialized in Change through nonviolent methods, it provides information, seminars, lectures, workshops and training courses, and it has activity in 52 countries currently, and trained more than 16 thousand activists, and they were the source of inspiration for 126 protest campaigns in different countries of the world.
Whose benefit?
Apart from the analyzes that dealt with the relationship of Jane Sharp, Serdia Popovic, and the Canvas Center with US intelligence, the following information is certain:
1. Jane Sharp, an American professor, has published a book under his name on how to get rid of dictatorial regimes by nonviolent means.
2. That Otpor received American support at the beginning of its foundation, and that it implemented what was stated in Sharp's book.
3. That Otpor was transformed by Popovic into a "canvas" center for the application of non-violent measures and strategies to effect change in a number of countries of the world.
4. "Canvas" is a local Serbian non-governmental institution, which announced that it aims to bring about political change in several countries of the world, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela.
It is completely illogical for an institution limited in responsibility and capabilities, on its own, to explicitly and explicitly interfere in the internal affairs of states that possess sovereignty and membership in the United Nations.
5. The Arab revolutions that occurred were all in countries targeted by the United States of America and its partners.
6. The results of these revolutions were all in the interest of the United States and its partners.
This quick background reveals to us the size of the planning and preparation that preceded the launch of the "Arab Spring" revolutions, but it does not reveal everything to us. There is still a lot of information locked up in the Well of Secrets awaiting a clearer, and in every country of the "Arab Spring" a well .
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