Arab World and the Refugees: Could the Arab Leaders see the Mirror?
Once the Arab heartland was a place of knowledge, moral, scientific and intellectual advancements and European used to come there for learning to envisage the Age of Renaissance. But European colonization divided and destroyed the Arab unity and their culture and Islamically democratic systems of people’s governance of reason and accountability.
( March 10, 2016, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Moncef Marzouki is no stranger to contemporary Arab politics. As a former President of Tunisia, he shared transformational leadership to envisage a new era of ‘Tunisian Arab Spring’ – a revulsion against dictatorship and leading to free elections and emergence of democracy. Talking to the DW Germany TV moderator Brent Gofft (3/8/2016), Marzouki felt ashamed that despite immense resources, the Arab world could not provide safety and protection to Syrian and Iraqi refugees dispersed and helpless at European borders. At least, Marzouki had the courage and intellect to speak of Arab leadership failure and indifference towards a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Hardly any other Arab leaders can utter few words of knowledge-based reason and wisdom to any international journalist or news network. This week, under the OIC, Arab leaders held a conference in Indonesia to boycott the Israeli products and businesses. Whereas, the priority should have been to discuss the Two State solution and how to reason the unreason with the Israeli leaders. Palestine and Israel both exist in fear of the unknown and open prison and need a rational solution and it must come out of a dialogue and peaceful meeting of minds, not bloodbath as going on in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine. While the Arab masses are haunted by the swindles and perversion of the radical Islamists, the authoritarian Arab leaders show a vivid image of bloodstained tyranny against their own masses. Recall that few centuries earlier there were no demarcations of borders,