Why are the intelligence services the most successful institution in the Arab world?

It is absolutely not a shame to have a great security system, because security is one of the most important components of any country in the world. Without security, life becomes unbearable hell. Even Maslow’s famous triangle gives security paramount importance in the hierarchy of human needs according to their importance, and Maslow divides human needs into five levels, which are organic needs such as water, food, a shelter, heat and other physical needs, then safety and security, love and belonging, respect and appreciation, and at the end comes the top of the pyramid. It is self-realization, which is feeling that you have achieved the goal of your goals in life and that you have reached the peak of what you wanted for yourself.

No level can be reached without what precedes it. When people meet their basic needs such as food and security, they seek to achieve higher levels of need. In other words, security is fundamental for human life.

And for your information, Western countries in particular attach the utmost importance to security and spend billions of dollars on their security institutions, and although they present themselves as a democracy and a hotbed of freedom of sorts, they are in fact top-level police states, as they watch over the ants in their countries. The surveillance by security forces of the public sphere in the West has grown steadily in the electronic age, so they are using the latest communication technologies to monitor people at all times. In some Western capitals, there is There are tens of millions of cameras that monitor the movement of people around the clock. And don’t forget that the security services manage western cities from special places through which they monitor all pests and arrivals in the streets of these cities thanks to millions of cameras, which will become more capable of monitoring, recording and recording in the age of the fifth generation of the Internet. Under this terrible technology, the surveillance and surveillance of the citizen becomes very easy, it records the most precise details of his life, and monitors him when he leaves his home, besides the applications he uses on his mobile and the computers inside his home are also spying on him for the benefit of businesses and countries, all the time. In short, security institutions in the West operate with the precision of Rolex, which is one of the most successful of democratic countries.

But it is very funny that the question does not differ at all in the Arab countries, because the security institutions are also the best performing and strongest institutions in the Arab world and also work with the precision of luxury watches, but the The difference between them and Western security institutions is that they are the only institutions that operate in our country and can be called true institutions, because the rest Civil institutions in the Arab world are not institutions in the first place if we compare them to the security establishment, because while the security services operate with very high precision and professionalism, we find that other institutions are miserable attachments to the security establishment and operate miserably, no institutional and miserable, which in short is far from the mentality. And the spirit of the institution, which is a second or even tenth degree. In other words, while security institutions in the West are as professional as other state institutions, the security establishment in the Arab world is the only institution that the state has allowed to be an institution in the sense the broadest of the term.

Who said the Arabs couldn’t build modern institutions? Who said they didn’t know the institutions? Not at all, but if they wanted to make all the institutions work with precision and efficiency, the security institution that does not sleep with one eye and does not close its eyelid 24 hours a day and performs its tasks against the citizen for profit state brilliantly, while the rest of the service institutions intentionally suffer from what appears to be slack, weakness and neglect. Scarcity of funding, chaos, resourcefulness and nonsense.

It is funny that when computers first appeared in the world and countries started buying them, Arab countries did not buy computers for universities, institutes, educational and scientific centers and hospitals. in which the computer is the mainstay of their work. Instead, they began to buy computers for the security services in order to strengthen their surveillance and control over peoples and to record their movements. Tunisia under the reign of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Syria under the reign of Hafez al-Assad were the first two Arab countries to buy the supercomputer for the intelligence services and not for the rest of the ministries or institutions, because the only institution required to function as a real institution is the security institution, as mentioned above, and because the regimes in power do not care about our country. Only his own safety, and let the safety, well-being and interests of the people go to hell. You have undoubtedly noticed that the Conferences of Arab Interior Ministers are the only conferences that are held periodically and professionally without interruption, regardless of the great differences between Arab countries, and this is further proof of the spirit. and the principle of institutionalization in security institutions in our miserable non-institutional world.

Of course, some believe that the corrupt and authoritarian police regime in the Arab world, far from being institutional, is due to the nature of the regimes in power and their dictatorial mentality which has corrupted and destroyed everything in our country except establishment, but others believe that the corrupt and totalitarian method of government in our region is imposed by the great colonial powers on the Arab regimes, and that most of the leaders work as hunting dogs for the great hunters and act according to the orders of their operators in America, Europe, Russia and Israel. Destroy more and more control! And we have in the Assad regime in Syria the most brilliant example, where the ugly security system in Syria is comparable to Assad in terms of barbarism, organization and surveillance, the East German Gestapo and the former Soviet KGB, while the rest of the so-called Syrian state institutions have become mere dirty “sabbits” carried by Syrian intelligence in the service of the dirtiest regime. .

(About the Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper)