Mengapa dikaitkan dgn pan-Arabisme?
Banyak bangsa non Arab di Timur Tengah & mereka tdk pernah merasa diri Arab. --- In [email protected], "Jusfiq" <kesayangan.allah@...> wrote: > > The resurrection of pan-Arabism > > The Egyptian revolution has resurrected a new type of pan-Arabism, based on > social justice not empty slogans. > Lamis Andoni Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 18:51 GMT > > The Egyptian revolution has resurrected pan-Arabism but this is not the > pan-Arabism of previous generations [GALLO/GETTY] > > The Egyptian revolution, itself influenced by the Tunisian uprising, has > resurrected a new sense of pan-Arabism based on the struggle for social > justice and freedom. The overwhelming support for the Egyptian > revolutionaries across the Arab world reflects a sense of unity in the > rejection of tyrannical, or at least authoritarian, leaders, corruption and > the rule of a small financial and political elite. > > Arab protests in solidarity with the Egyptian people also suggest that there > is a strong yearning for the revival of Egypt as a pan-Arab unifier and > leader. Photographs of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the former Egyptian president, > have been raised in Cairo and across Arab capitals by people who were not > even alive when Nasser died in 1970. The scenes are reminiscent of those that > swept Arab streets in the 1950s and 1960s. > > But this is not an exact replica of the pan-Arab nationalism of those days. > Then, pan-Arabism was a direct response to Western domination and the 1948 > establishment of the state of Israel. Today, it is a reaction to the absence > of democratic freedoms and the inequitable distribution of wealth across the > Arab world. > > We are now witnessing the emergence of a movement for democracy that > transcends narrow nationalism or even pan-Arab nationalism and which embraces > universal human values that echo from north to south and east to west. > > This is not to say that there is no anti-imperialist element within the > current movement. But the protests in Egypt and elsewhere promote a deeper > understanding of human emancipation, which forms the real basis for freedom > from both repression and foreign domination. > > Unlike the pan-Arabism of the past, the new movement represents an intrinsic > belief that it is freedom from fear and human dignity that enables people to > build better societies and to create a future of hope and prosperity. The old > "wisdom" of past revolutionaries that liberation from foreign domination > precedes the struggle for democracy has fallen. > > The revolutionaries of Egypt, and before them Tunisia, have exposed through > deeds - not merely words - the leaders who are tyrants towards their own > people, while humiliatingly subservient to foreign powers. They have shown > the impotence of empty slogans that manipulate animosity towards Israel to > justify a fake Arab unity, which in turn serves only to mask sustained > oppression and the betrayal of Arab societies and the aspirations of the > Palestinian people. > > The Palestinian pretext > > The era of using the Palestinian cause as a pretext for maintaining martial > laws and silencing dissent is over. The Palestinians have been betrayed, not > helped, by leaders who practice repression against their own people. It is no > longer sufficient for regimes in Syria and Iran to claim support for > Palestinian resistance in order to stifle freedom of expression and to > shamelessly tread on human rights in their own countries. > > Equally, it is no longer acceptable for the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas to > cite their record in resisting Israel when justifying their suppression of > each other and the rest of the Palestinian people. Young Palestinians are > responding to the message of the movement and embracing the idea that > combatting internal injustice - whether practised by Fatah or Hamas - is a > prerequisite for the struggle to end Israeli occupation and not something to > be endured for the sake of that struggle. > > Events in Egypt and Tunisia have revealed that Arab unity against internal > repression is stronger than that against a foreign threat - neither the > American occupation of Iraq nor the Israeli occupation galvanised the Arab > people in the way that a single act by a young Tunisian who chose to set > himself alight rather than live in humiliation and poverty has. > > This does not mean that Arabs do not care about the occupied people of Iraq > or Palestine - tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands have taken to the > streets across Arab countries at various times to show solidarity with Iraqis > and Palestinians - but it does reflect the realisation that the absence of > democratic freedoms has contributed to the continued occupation of those > countries. > > The Arab failure to defend Iraq or liberate Palestine has come to symbolise > an Arab impotence that has been perpetuated by the state of fear and > paralysis in which the ordinary Arab citizen, marginalised by social > injustice and crushed by security apparatus oppression, has existed. > > When they were allowed to rally in support of Iraqis or Palestinians it was > mainly so that their anger might be deflected from their own governments and > towards a foreign threat. For so long, they put their own socio-economic > grievances aside to voice their support for the occupied, only to wake up the > next day shackled by the same chains of repression. > > All the while, both pro-Western and anti-Western governments continued with > business as usual - the first camp relying on US support to consolidate their > authoritarian rule and the second on anti-Israel slogans to give legitimacy > to their repression of their people. > > But now people across the region - not only in Egypt and Tunisia - have lost > faith in their governments. For make no mistake, when protesters have > gathered in Amman or Damascus to express their solidarity with the Egyptian > revolutionaries in Tahrir Square, they are actually objecting to their own > rulers. > > In Ramallah, the protesters repeated a slogan calling for the end of internal > Palestinian divisions (which, in Arabic, rhymes with the Egyptian call for > the end to the regime), as well as demanding an end to negotiations with > Israel - sending a clear message that there will be no room left for the > Palestinian Authority if it continues to rely on such negotiations. > > In the 1950s and 1960s, millions of Arabs poured onto the streets determined > to continue the liberation of the Arab world from the remnants of colonial > domination and the creeping American hegemony. In 2011, millions have poured > onto the streets determined not only to ensure their freedom but also to > ensure that the mistakes of previous generations are not repeated. Slogans > against a foreign enemy - no matter how legitimate - ring hollow if the > struggle for democratic freedoms is set aside. > > The protesters in Cairo and beyond may raise photographs of Gamal Abdel > Nasser, because they see him as a symbol of Arab dignity. But, unlike Nasser, > the demonstrators are invoking a sense of pan-Arab nationalism that > understands that national liberation cannot go hand-in-hand with the > suppression of political dissent. For this is a genuine Arab unity galvanised > by the common yearning for democratic freedoms. > > Lamis Andoni is an analyst and commentator on Middle Eastern and Palestinian > affairs. > > The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not > necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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