Common denominators – Mohamed Abdel Moneim El Shazly

The Arab regional system has experienced, if one can consider that it is still in place, a number of violent shocks in a group of countries which have left them torn, devastating, divided among themselves, fighting among themselves, so that the accounts of Arab power were completely offloaded as they were counted against the Arabs instead of being calculated for them and executed from During this period, many regional and international powers strive to sow chaos and instability in the Arab world to serve their agendas.
This has happened in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia, which we have forgotten to be an Arab country and a member of the Arab League.
Why these countries in particular? Are there common denominators between these countries?
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At first glance, there does not appear to be any common features that unite these countries, including the Arab Mashreq countries, others in the Maghreb and Arab countries in Africa, including rich countries such as Libya and the ‘Iraq, and poor countries like Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan, and among them are countries with high levels of education and culture like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and countries with high rates of education and culture. high education. Low, like Yemen, Somalia and Sudan.
However, on closer inspection, we find a lot of commonality between these countries. The first of these is the submission of all to a strong, individual and authoritarian regime that has lasted a long time and has allowed no pluralism, opposition or political rules likely to bear the responsibility of reigning after it.
Perhaps the longest period of rule is that of the Assad family, which spanned from 1971 to 2000 for Father Hafez, followed by his son Bashar from 2000 and continues to this day, around 40 years. It was followed by the reign of Muammar Gaddafi, who lasted only forty years, then Abdullah Saleh, which lasted thirty-four years, followed by Omar al-Bashir, who reigned for thirty years, then Saddam Hussein. , who ruled for twenty-four years, then Siad Barre, who ruled Somalia for twenty-two years.
In order to establish the pillars of their power, these rulers carried out massive massacres against their peoples, including the Hama massacre, which killed 20,000 people in 1982, and the Anfal massacre against the Kurds, including Operation Halabja in which poison gas was used, as well as massacres against Shiites in the south. The victims of these operations are estimated at one hundred thousand. The victims of al-Bashir in Darfur and the south before its secession, in huge numbers, in addition to the Telefon massacre when the army opened fire on university students who were undergoing military training during the holidays and the massacres of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia against the Isak sect in 1989, which left 30,000 dead, and then the massacre at Abu Salim prison in Libya, which killed more than 1,200 people. These rulers wanted to carry on their reign by planning to bequeath the reign to their children, and Hafez al-Assad succeeded in inheriting power from his son Bashar, while Gaddafi was deposed before he could inherit from his son, Saif. al-Islam, and Saddam Hussein fell before he could inherit his two sons Ouday and Qusay, and Ali Abdallah Saleh did not allow him to inherit from his two sons Uday and Qusay, and Ali Abdallah Saleh did not allow him was not allowed to inherit. Who appointed him commander of the Republican Guard, and Sayyad Barri before his fall put his son Musleh at the head of the army to be in a position of strength to succeed him, as for Lebanon, the inheritance was a constant Walid Joumblatt to succeed Kamal Amin, Bashir al-Jamil to succeed Pierre Gemayel, Omar Karami to succeed Rashid Karami, Tim Salam to succeed Saeb Salam and Saad Hariri to succeed Rafik Hariri.
When these tyrants fell from power, they left their country without a valid alternative, as they spent during their reign on every personality or institution that could be a substitute, because they felt it was a threat to their existence. .and the most dangerous and the worst is that they left a weak and trembling people afraid of the initiative after the death of their soul. The oppression that was being practiced against him, as well as his division and the blood that flowed between its components, which opened the door to outside interference.
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There are also common denominators that unite the countries that have fallen to Al-Hatma and that make them states of great value and weight in the Arab arena. Culturally, Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad state, and Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid state, represented the height of the greatness of Arab civilization, as did Yemen, which is also the origin and the cradle of Arab civilization. Entrance to the Red Sea and trade corridors between East and West via the Suez Canal.
The other feature that unites these countries is that it is the food safety valve for the Arabs. Sudan has vast areas of agricultural land which, if properly cultivated, will be enough to feed Arabs and Africans together, and Iraq is the fertile land of Mesopotamia, and few of us know that the area of farmland in Syria is twice the area of ​​farmland in Syria. Egypt, even Somalia, God blessed it with great wealth in cattle and fish.
Iraq and Libya are oil producing countries and are members of OPEC, and Iraq has had experiences and made great strides in nuclear power, and Israel has targeted it with its raid, which destroyed its Osirak reactor in 1981 and then completely destroyed it by the American invasion, as well as Libya had a nuclear program which was dismantled by mutual agreement after increasing. International pressure has squandered the enormous sums spent on these programs, in addition to the assassinations that affected academics participating in these programs, the most famous of which is Dr Yahya Al Mashad.
Mention should also be made of the Israeli raid on what it claimed to be a nuclear reactor under construction in Syria, which indicates the possibility of accumulating nuclear expertise in Syria.
Lebanon, Iraq and Syria are among the most important beacons of intellectual and cultural influence in the Arab world, and the extinction of these beacons has a great impact on the Arabs, and we also have Somalia and Sudan. , which represent the bond and mix between Arabs and Africans necessary to refute the saying of Africa north of the Sahara and sub-Saharan Africa that separates Africans as well as between whites and blacks. And Arabic and African, which is the pattern that has succeeded in dividing Sudan and the dislocation of the south, and it is a pattern that goes beyond the simple division of Sudan, but aims to transform the Arabism into a racist concept which does not accept black Africa, the Shiite Muslim, the Kurds, the Berbers or the Christians, and puts an end to the concept of the Arab world as a homeland for all who reside there and innovates. In his civilization he fought for his safety and spoke his language, then insisted on canceling the name of the Arab world and replacing it with the term Middle East and North Africa where different races and bees live in her country, each in her own country isolated from the other, in application of the idea of ​​the new Middle East.
Were what happened isolated events that took place in different countries without planning or desired objective, or are there common denominators indicating planned action?
What the aforementioned countries have gone through is a road map to devastation and abyss. We really have to realize it so as not to walk in its path.