I don’t recall attending any festival, shows, conferences, even business workshops around the Arab world, without having a touch of politics in it. It seems that we are born with a destiny to live a daily political cyclone. Is it a coincidence that ALL of the Middle East, suffered, suffering and will continue to suffer for decades?

I’m not claiming that this is not the case in other parts of the world, but of what I saw and witnessed during my traveling and meeting different peoples from around the world, Middle Eastern suffer most. Don’t tell me that it’s our mistake. There are millions and millions other people in this world that are less wealthy and more happy. Is that a coincidence?

The criminal assault on Iraq and Palestine is serendipitously driving the Arab masses into political life, the genuine politics of the street, heated debate, and the empowerment that grows out of confrontation with power. The peaceful rallies that meet with cordons of baton-wielding police, tear gas, water cannons, bullets and mass arrests. The people respond by directing their fury, not only at U.S. imperialism, but the pro-U.S. governments that seek to deny them the democracy of street protest. The democracy that might start to look like revolution.

The corporate media has provided some smudged reportage on these demonstrations, which have occurred throughout the Arab world, from Rabat and Casablanca to Beirut and Baghdad. Rarely in citing the numbers do they note that in most parts of the Arab world such demonstrations are illegal and that those who participate are often putting their lives on the line; nor that the U.S. government wants them to be illegal, and applies pressure on Arab governments it subsidizes (notably Egypt) to continue to suppress anti-U.S. dissent.

Look at it, where in the Arab world; politically is stable? Even our hairdresser’s have something politically to say!