Morocco: Great Hope For Arab Democracy?
As we witness the stunning anti-government protests in Iran, we wonder why no similar protests sweep the Arab world from Morocco and Mauritania to Saudi Arabia and Iraq? Could the kingdom of Morocco be the place where democracy is possible in the Arab world? Check out this piece:
http://www.slate.com/id/2221750/?from=rss
That democracy is not embedded in the Arab world does not mean that it will not be one day. We often make the fallacy that the present politically is the eternal present. That political history is merely static. This is a narrow reading of history. Do we forget the US and French Revolutions abolishing monarchies, the fall of Nazism and Fascism, and the demise of the Marxist-Leninist Soviet Union in 1991? Or, the fall of empires from the Aztec to the Roman? It will be a struggle, a mighty struggle, and the antiquated political structures will not fall easily. But there are cracks. And this is where the light will shine through both in Morocco and beyond its borders.
Tamir Bar-On
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