If I had stayed four days, I could not understand why the streets of Beirut were deserted, the streets of Cairo and Tunisia rabid transformed. I could not understand why young Syrian whisper shyly invitations to revolt, and why Jordan decided to change his prime minister this way. I would have thought even in dream, and I snapped their fingers so that it ends. An Arab world which has so far floated peacefully in corruption, suddenly vomits its bid. A people which has been used and abused at once denies its injustice and asks God to bless him. People living in fear far the largest, showed themselves tolerant. But young people are willing to brave the war. Because they are poor and unemployed, because they are poor, whatever their ages, because they must submit. To the gods, to master. If I had stayed four days, I could not understand the logic of the market, and show why the bankers worried. I hated to miss this change, and do not live those moments. I could not understand these acts of rebellion sudden, and why there is suddenly a smell in the air jasmine.
I look at pictures and scenes, and I find myself torn between the joy we feel when we tasted the freedom and apprehension of the post. Shared between the enthusiasm that these men must feel these young women, children and the pain that comes with the pain of combat. I listen all around me my European friends who advance principles beautiful and praiseworthy, those of democracy, equality, justice. I listen to them talk as if reciting a textbook of political science or constitutional law. I pity all of naivete. Because I can not help to remember, almost by repressing the idea that comes to disturb me, for that freedom is granted, it must know the subject, able and willing to decide.
The Arab revolt today. He rises. He shouts. He probably believes. A comedy would not be passionate. Spreads a smell, a smell of flowers, and as a decoy, like that, without notice, without agenda, awakens a long-hidden pain and can no longer be supported. What scares is uncertainty about who will replace the culprit. Will he choose to wait, like this, by an act reactionary and unreasonable? Will he manipulate the crowd as it handles a virgin girl with words dreamers ... and especially liars? Does it benefit from its weakness, fatigue, the cry of SOS?
Arab countries, they all reached majority at the same time, at the same time, by pure coincidence? Some would they be influenced by their neighbors so they can not afford to pay the price of freedom?
Are they now adults, adults and vaccinated? Or is it a crisis of adolescence? A crisis that parents do happen ... Until we go again.
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