** by Abdulillah
Hello again, I am sorry I have not written for a while, it’s not because nothing was in the news that didn’t need to be commented on, or that I did not want to, it is simply because some of us folks like you ordinary people have to work to feed our families and as such, I am back to address a few concerns, and maybe reflect on some other thoughts that you may be interested in.
Let’s reflect on the happenings in our area the past 10 months. Some of which I have already addressed before:
The Middle East Peace Process; this we all knew would collapse simply because Israel (by this I mean the present government) the entity with the controlling power and the upper hand, had/has really no interest in making peace. Couple this with a loser of a Prime Minister (Bibi), a gutless wonder who couldn’t lead a pack of hungry wolves to meat, let alone make peace, because his whole interest was not in the welfare of his country but maintaining his own personal ambitions and aggrandizement, making any true megalomaniac envious.
As for the other side of table, the Palestinian Authority, led by another person who cannot even get all of his own people to believe in what he is doing; a hawk that has long ago been feathered and declawed resembling more like a chicken today that has been rotating on spit for a while now almost ready to be devoured by the other side. Seems to me he should have dropped out a long time ago and let those who have a bit more understanding of their present position and who practice a bit more transparency run the show. Then the people he claims to represent can actually see how weak their hand is in this peace process. Instead he too like his counterpart on the other side of the table is lost in his own clueless ambition and desires.
Unfortunately; the people of both sides are going to suffer even more now. I am not even sure that any of this can be righted now. In fact I would say the opportunity is beyond fixable. Unfortunately the Palestinian people’s only choice in this matter now comes down to civil disobedience and popular resistance.
Israel will continue to punish them for this in even more draconian inhumane ways. Annexing and taking more of their land, imprisonment and the razing of their property, unleashing a strong military over a nonexistent one, and as we can see today the complete ethnic cleansing of the population of Muslims, and Arab Christians, where the Al-Aqsa Mosque and The Dome of Rock are kept off limits to them and their personal property being confiscated.
I can tell you all as it looks now, this deep hole is going to get deeper, and getting out of it will only mean bloodshed, probably the likes that the region has not seen before. In fact the conditions on the ground today in the Levant and the rest of the Middle-East are pointing towards this. Spillover from this long burning conflict along with the Palestinian diaspora is bound to add even more fuel to the fire that has now engulfed the region.
The Levant and Region as whole: We can see that Iraq and Syria are broken and dysfunctional countries that no longer control their territories and people. This is because the people do not trust their governments to provide security and personal welfare. These countries are dead as entities that existed before the 2nd Gulf War led by the imbecilic G. W. Bush and his neo-conservative cronies, who was warned that breaking a country without being in the position of making things right is bound to backfire. In fact it didn’t even take 20 years for a new generation to come in to rebel against their present status and incompetent governments.
Everyone also now knows that when you leave areas in a vacuum, without proper civil authority it is going to be filled with anyone who feels that they can and should control their own destiny. Most will be the likes of warlords and peoples with ideologies of repression and killing as they are the first to take to the gun to gain authority. Eventually; the warring will stop after everyone has either been defeated or joined the movement, followed shortly after with repression, and finally when others are beginning to feel the pain as these movements grow and spill over, they all get together to defeat it.
However by then, the populations of these regions, from so many traumas and with so much weaponry that has been dumped there by all sides, will only know that the gun is the way to get your way. Good luck putting that evil demon back in a box, especially since the ones that broke it are the ones who are now are trying to fix it, and the populace distrusts them to make things right.
History has shown, in areas where the prevalence of weaponry dumping in an environment that lacks any control, the people and the region never recover until it is taken over by a stronger entity and is kept until eventually over a period of at least 10-20 years things get back to semblance of order . Unless these entities are ones that reflect the identities of the people that they take over, or have some connection to these identities, the populace is bound to reject them, and war continues and spill over is bound to happen.
An example of this is the ISIS/Daash situation in northeast Syria and Iraq. Just look as to its formation and how it came to be. Also look now as to what those who facilitated and are still facilitating the breakup of the home countries, and you can get a general idea of how things can develop. Please, don’t misunderstand me, what I trying to get across is that in situations where foreign entities are introduced with no ideological or even strong political affiliation with the populace it is bound to be seen as inference and meddling.
People are not as stupid as these foreign entities would like one to think. The populace will see right through them. The reasoning is simple from the point of view of the populace. That they are NOT here to save me or the region from turmoil but to save themselves from the spill over that is bound to happen in their own countries. In the case of ISIS/Daash, it is clear that the West do not want their own populace who has joined this movement to come back and havoc in their own regions.
One should be asking them why so much of their own populace not born or raised in the region is responding to the call of this movement. Maybe it is because they are having a harder time managing their own identities in an environment that is less tolerant than ever before. That they find the equality and pluralism so touted by the West as really none existence for them, where they are spied on continuously and viewed in suspicion.
One does not need to go far to see why this is happening; the population is constantly being bombarded by news outlets and government policies skewed so far to the right that these minorities see themselves under siege. As for the local people they are different and like all people everywhere want peace and understanding between them and everyone else. So why do these news outlets and governments do this; it’s simple they need to have a boogeyman to sell copy or more military equipment to.
As for the local surrounding states, their entire motivation is political and the fear of possible spill over is real, only for somewhat differing reasons than the West. The spillover into their regions is more likely to happen because of their lack of transparency and in many cases lack of complete faith of the people in being led by the right government or leaders.
None of this is new. So along with this fight, they need to look inward and ask themselves “are we really doing the right thing to our people. How can we make it even better? What kind of education and opportunities do we need to give our people, etc…” Without this, I am afraid the region is bound the repeat of these scenario’s. Only the populaces by then will have gained the wrong experience with the vast number of weapons that proliferate in the region, and what to do with them.
Finally as for Jordan; we are told recently our government is bloated. Wow a revelation that anyone in his right mind could have told them years ago. Yes our government is bloated and moreover it has its hand in way too many places.
For one thing they need to set policy, NOT direct the people in what they may or may not deem in their best interest. They need not tell us what we can make or do, but provide us access to areas and to stop impeding us in the way we would like to go, and provide us with full transparency and with modest regulations.
The other is to provide us and our future generations with the tools to grow. That means better roads, better schools, better resources, and a good social security net when we grow old, and an environment that is clean and free of impurities. You need not do anything else!
We don’t need you to run our schools or our teachers, or our shops or organizations, or even build our roads and clean our environment. We need you only to make it possible with money, policies and laws that will facilitate this.
Yes; I don’t think our public schools and teachers are run efficiently. I think anytime you get a public servant he is bound to actually believe his sole existence is to be a cog in a wheel of progress with long red tape, or worse to sit on his rear, since he will get tenured and not move from his position until he dies, or he passes this public position onto his family member to fall into as if it belongs to him and his family in perpetuity. I believe the government needs to build clean schools and charter them out to vetted teaching organizations, which will be held responsible for the hiring and firing and curriculum, being graded yearly on their ability to provide such services, in an open and transparent method. Makes for good accountability in my opinion and less bloating.
In conclusion I would like to say that I will try not to stay away so long.
May Allah/God bless Jordan and its people always.
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