What to do (Arab Spring)?

[Hezam]

Now Libya/Yemen/Bahrain and Algeria (Also in Djibouti but no reporters there).

The police are killing the protesters in Libya,For more videos and pictures please visit :
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya

In Yemen the government used the power as well as Libyan government.

In Bahrain the government used the power too :
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/16/live-blog-bahrain

in Algeria the power was the only way to stop the protests.

For more please visit :
http://english.aljazeera.net/

There are some protests in China against the government and also in Iran and Djibouti.
Maybe the same will happen in china.

Congratulations to the people of Egypt for winning their freedom -- in a relatively bloodless revolution too! You should know that a recent poll showed that 82 percent of Americans support you.

Thank you very much,All Arab appreciate your support and will never forget it.

It's the beggining of spring here =)

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

Glad to see you're still online, Hezam. How are things there in SA?

 

[Hezam]

Thank you very much RolandtheHeadless,everything is going well here =)

The Libyan dictator Qaddafi used Africans to kill the people and he commited a massacre in Benghazi city,Benghazi has been freed yesterday and the old Libyan flag is back again :

Picture from the city :

To Morocco where thousands of protesters in different places calling for justice :

There are alot of protests in many places in Arab world,You can see them on youtube...

P.S in Iraq there are many protests but the media can't reach them because of the occupation.

 

[mohamed]

picture from tahrir

this picture comming from tharir square
some pictures , president of Egypt and Tunisia chating together, the another all ready ded , and the last picture is for The tahrir screen for environmental data as you see the flag of my lovely country (japan) on it .

 

[Hezam]

Gadhafi : I will do like what America did to Faluja !
Until this moment more than 500 protesters been killed and thousands injured....
im very very worried about Libyans..This dictator is going to slay the people.

Journalist called the white house and they said to him "We are not interested" !!

Anyway,the most bloody protest is the Libyan protest.
Italy sent Mafia and some African countries sent mercenaries to Tripoli.

The Aircraft attacked the protesters and burned many of them....

 

[mohamed]

These images from Tahrir Square on Friday, which we called victory ,I raised my hand but I a little short ...

 

[Hezam]

Congratulations All Tunisians and All Egyptians and soon all Libyans.

 

[Hezam]

Soldiers burned by Gadhafi's mercenaries for not killing protesters :

 

[mohamed]

Ohhhhhh , it's too bad ,
hazem do al-jazzera work in your country ???

 

[Hezam]

Last time i heard from AL-Jazeera about Yemen was 1 or 2 months ago..the Yemeni government closed Aljazeera office in San'a and Aden.

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

The news is full of these stories in the US. Most Americans are sympathetic to the demonstrators, but we don't know what, if anything, our government should do about it. Should we help the demonstrators, or refuse to meddle and mind our own business?

Our history of intervening in the Middle East is not encouraging.

 

[AJBryant]

Mohamed, just stay careful and well, and keep your head down.

And to all you guys in places where things are shakey -- stay well, be safe.

 

[Hezam]

The news is full of these stories in the US. Most Americans are sympathetic to the demonstrators, but we don't know what, if anything, our government should do about it. Should we help the demonstrators, or refuse to meddle and mind our own business?

Our history of intervening in the Middle East is not encouraging.

The US government should not do anything,Just let the people handle their problems.


Thanks RolandtheHeadless and AJBryant.

The Libyan Navy refused bombing Binghazi city...

 

[Hezam]

Tunisian Dictator Palace (Full of money and gold) :



What do u think ?

 

[Hezam]

Gaddafi's Full Speech:

 

[Nuala]

The US government should not do anything,Just let the people handle their problems.

Thanks RolandtheHeadless and AJBryant.
The Libyan Navy refused bombing Binghazi city...

I'm glad the Libyan Navy refused to bomb Binghazi. It's also nice to see that the US is not involving itself with the unrest in the Middle East. We need to intervene less in international affairs. My hopes and "prayers" go out to the protesters throughout the Middle East.

 

[Hezam]

Thank you Thor,I'm really happy to hear this from you.

 

[Hezam]

Arab revolutions inspired protest in Shanghai China :


the chinese government is preparing for protests....It's time for chinese to get their freedom and build a democratic system.

Also in Croatia the people protested against the corruption :

And arrested :

In Iraq the people still protesting and more than 10 persons been killed and hundreds injured.

in Yemen,it seems like we will see another Libya or even more bloody events.

Morocco and Again in Tunisia the revolution has been stolen by the same government during Ben Ali and tens of thousands are protesting until this moment to change the government.

Libya,the last moments for the crazy dictator Gaddafi and it's almost the victory.

And from New York Times i got you an interesting article for Nicholas D. Kristof :
Unfit for Democracy?
Is the Arab world unready for freedom? A crude stereotype lingers that some people — Arabs, Chinese and Africans — are incompatible with democracy. Many around the world fret that "people power" will likely result in Somalia-style chaos, Iraq-style civil war or Iran-style oppression.

That narrative has been nourished by Westerners and, more sadly, by some Arab, Chinese and African leaders. So with much of the Middle East in an uproar today, let's tackle a politically incorrect question head-on: Are Arabs too politically immature to handle democracy?

This concern is the subtext for much anxiety today, from Washington to Riyadh. And there's no question that there are perils: the overthrow of the shah in Iran, of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, of Tito in Yugoslavia, all led to new oppression and bloodshed. Congolese celebrated the eviction of their longtime dictator in 1997, but the civil war since has been the most lethal conflict since World War II. If Libya becomes another Congo, if Bahrain becomes an Iranian satellite, if Egypt becomes controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood — well, in those circumstances ordinary citizens might end up pining for former oppressors.

"Before the revolution, we were slaves, and now we are the slaves of former slaves," Lu Xun, the great Chinese writer, declared after the toppling of the Qing dynasty. Is that the future of the Middle East?

I don't think so. Moreover, this line of thinking seems to me insulting to the unfree world. In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I've been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I've seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. How can we say that these people are unready for a democracy that they are prepared to die for?

We Americans spout bromides about freedom. Democracy campaigners in the Middle East have been enduring unimaginable tortures as the price of their struggle — at the hands of dictators who are our allies — yet they persist. In Bahrain, former political prisoners have said that their wives were taken into the jail in front of them. And then the men were told that unless they confessed, their wives would promptly be raped. That, or more conventional tortures, usually elicited temporary confessions, yet for years or decades those activists persisted in struggling for democracy. And we ask if they're mature enough to handle it?

The common thread of this year's democracy movement from Tunisia to Iran, from Yemen to Libya, has been undaunted courage. I'll never forget a double-amputee I met in Tahrir Square in Cairo when Hosni Mubarak's thugs were attacking with rocks, clubs and Molotov cocktails. This young man rolled his wheelchair to the front lines. And we doubt his understanding of what democracy means?

In Bahrain, I watched a column of men and women march unarmed toward security forces when, a day earlier, the troops had opened fire with live ammunition. Anyone dare say that such people are too immature to handle democracy?

Look, there'll be bumps ahead. It took Americans six years after the Revolutionary War to elect a president, and we almost came apart at the seams again in the 1860s. When Eastern Europe became democratic after the 1989 revolutions, Poland and the Czech Republic adjusted well, but Romania and Albania endured chaos for years. After the 1998 people power revolution in Indonesia, I came across mobs in eastern Java who were beheading people and carrying their heads on pikes.

The record is that after some missteps, countries usually pull through. Education, wealth, international connections and civil society institutions help. And, on balance, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain are better positioned today for democracy than Mongolia or Indonesia seemed in the 1990s — and Mongolia and Indonesia today are successes. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain visited the Middle East a few days ago (arms dealers in tow), and he forthrightly acknowledged that for too long Britain had backed authoritarian regimes to achieve stability. He acknowledged that his country had bought into the bigoted notion "that Arabs or Muslims can't do democracy." And he added: "For me, that's a prejudice that borders on racism. It's offensive and wrong, and it's simply not true."

It's still a view peddled by Arab dictatorships, particularly Saudi Arabia — and, of course, by China's leaders and just about any African despot. It's unfortunate when Westerners are bigoted in this way, but it's even sadder when leaders in the developing world voice such prejudices about their own people.

In the 21st century, there's no realistic alternative to siding with people power. Prof. William Easterly of New York University proposes a standard of reciprocity: "I don't support autocracy in your society if I don't want it in my society."

That should be our new starting point. I'm awed by the courage I see, and it's condescending and foolish to suggest that people dying for democracy aren't ready for it.
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And a video from a very good american guy
Bret


Salaam =)

 

[Nuala]

That should be our new starting point. I'm awed by the courage I see, and it's condescending and foolish to suggest that people dying for democracy aren't ready for it.[/I]

That's exactly what I think too. I mean there is that whole aspect of dying for a brighter tomorrow for your people..

 

[bruno]

Rapper Gaddafi !

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Bad musical taste !

 

[Hezam]

LOL nice video...

 

[Elizabeth van Kampen]

Today I read that the people from Libya asked the Europeans and Americans to stay out of their revolt against Gaddafi.
I fully agree with these brave (mostly young) men and women. They don't need us at all. We Europeans and Americans can only help when the people from Libya asks
us for help, but earlier.

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

Apparently, the US and Europe, along with the UN, are talking about imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, to keep that madman from bombing his own people. Don't the Libyans even want that much help?

 

[Hezam]

Apparently, the US and Europe, along with the UN, are talking about imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, to keep that madman from bombing his own people. Don't the Libyans even want that much help?

They said they dont need any help from the UN and NATO & USA.
But since Libya is the 9th largest oil lake they want it so badly.
You are a people and you are watching what's happening so please see how the US government and NATO deal with Arab people who seek freedom.

Now Oman is on the same way,Algeria and Morocco...Actually i feel that Saudi Arabia is boiling.

 

[Hezam]

Just for laugh :