People's War for Bread and Honor

Unprecedented as it is, unseen in the Arab world, unexpected from the flock of sheep as West would have described for hundreds of years in their orientalist rhetoric, here we are, a boiling cauldron, heating up with human blood and anger, making news, filling internet and changing the world…

The world is shaking and this time the spark came from South West Asia (SWA) and North Africa (NA). It all started with a simple fight in Tunisia, a man of labour, Mohammed Bouazizi, could not take the insult from the police any more and he burned himself in front of the provincial headquarter. His story is remarkable and the spark he initiated made a huge fire of people seeking for their freedom, their well-deserved bread, their rights as citizens and their more equal society. It is a fight for bread and honor more than fight for freedom. People need to be treated equally and decently before they are given their freedom. When the stomach is empty, no one would think of the freedom anyway.

However, our hypocritical Western countries again show their white faces as if they are as innocent like the newborn babies. They made business deals with these dictators (and their families) for long, they had their bank accounts (without asking where the money comes from, Switzerland has many accounts of the corrupt politicians and therefore deserves to be considered as the "most corrupt nation" in the world) their families have assets of lands, hotels, football teams, newspapers in Europe and USA. Now, when the West sees that there is no more they can do to save the dictators in power for their own benefit, they would like to get rid of them, condemn them, try to put more pressure on them. But where were they for the last 30-40 years? Did Gaddafi become a dictator in one day? What about Mobarek? Wasn't he a good friend of USA till the people of Egypt raised against him? The video above talks about only one side of the story -if West does not intervene, Islamist extremists will take over- but still it shows something we hardly see on CNN or BBC. I agree that Islamic extremism became the "communism of McCarty" and it is now just an excuse for West in order to dominate a new country and extract the resources.

Last year, the world was shaken by the demonstrations in Europe as many of the governments in Europe went bankrupt. This year started with uprisings and overthrowing dictators. It smells a bit fishy when we connect these two consecutive years. The beast is hungry and will do anything he can to get the food. If not oil to save their bankrupt governments, what else can?

Western world should respect the decision of Arab people and make sure they do what they want with their resources. If one dictator goes and a democratic regime who sells the country's resources to other nations and give nothing to its people comes to power, then we cannot talk about change at all. The victory can be declared only if the people are the winners of the war, not the puppets brought by the Western powers, not a few corporations or a few tribe heads.

I am scared that West will one more time intervene the situation and take the victory from people's hands by putting themselves upfront. They already did this by exaggerating the roles of "facebook", "twitter" and "youtube", claiming the credit for the coming changes. However, we all know that revolution is not the result of a few computer gigs who sit in their rooms and call people to uprise. If we really want to find a martyr, a true man/woman who is behind all these struggles, let's look at Mohammed Bouazizi, let's see the one who are killed in the Tahrir square by Mobarek's soldiers, let's respect to the people who are killed in the bombings in Libya. There is no need to give credit to the West for the things which are solely product of "will of Arab people".

Here is another video on Western interests, definition of democracy and the ones who will benefit from the chaos in the long run...