Common denominators: Mohamed Abdel Moneim El Shazly

The Arab regional system has witnessed, if it can be considered that it is still standing, a series of violent tremors in a group of countries that have left them torn apart, devastating, divided among themselves, fighting each other, so that the accounts of the Arab power were fully discharged so that it was counted against the Arabs instead of being calculated for them and executed by During this period, many regional and international powers are working to spread chaos and instability in the Arab world to serve their programs.
It happened in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia, of which we have forgotten that it is an Arab country and a member of the Arab League.
Why these countries specifically? Are there common denominators between these countries?
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At first glance, there do not appear to be common features uniting these countries, including countries in the Arab Mashreq, others in the Maghreb and countries in Arab Africa, including rich countries like Libya and Iraq and poor countries like Yemen, Somalia and Sudan, and among them there are countries with a high education and culture ratio such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and countries with high education rates. Low, like Yemen, Somalia and Sudan.
However, with a closer look, we find many points in common between these countries. The first is the submission of all of them to a strong and authoritarian individual government that has lasted a long time and has not allowed any pluralism, opposition or political base capable of taking responsibility for governing after him.
Perhaps the longest period of government is that of the Al-Assad family, which extends from 1971 to 2000 by Father Hafez, followed by his son Bashar since 2000 and continues today, that is about forty years. He was followed by the government of Muammar Gaddafi, which lasted only forty years, then Abdullah Saleh, which lasted thirty-four years, followed by Omar al-Bashir, who ruled for thirty years, then Saddam Hussein, who ruled twenty-four years, then Siad Barre , who ruled Somalia for twenty-two years.
To establish the pillars of their government, these rulers committed massive massacres against their peoples, including the Hama massacre, which killed twenty thousand in 1982, and the Anfal massacre against the Kurds, including Operation Halabja in which gas was used. poisonous, as well as massacres against Shiites in the south. The victims of these operations are estimated at one hundred thousand. Al-Bashir’s victims in Darfur and the south before its secession, in large numbers, plus the Telefon massacre when the army opened fire on university students who were having military training during the holidays and the massacres of the Siad Barre’s regime in Somalia against the Isak sect in 1989, which caused 30,000 victims, then the Abu Salim prison massacre in Libya, which killed more than 1,200 people. These rulers wanted to perpetuate their government by planning to bequeath the government to their children, and Hafez al-Assad managed to inherit power to his son Bashar, while Gaddafi was deposed before he could inherit his son, Saif al-Islam, and Saddam Hussein fell before he could inherit his two sons Uday and Qusay, and Ali Abdullah Saleh did not allow him to inherit his son Ahmed. That made him commander of the Republican Guard, and Sayyad Barri before his downfall put his son Musleh in charge of the army to be in a strong position to succeed him, as with Lebanon, hereditary inheritance was a constant feature Walid Jumblatt will succeed Kamal Amin, Bashir al-Jamil will succeed Pierre Gemayel, Omar Karami will succeed Rashid Karami, Tim Salam will succeed Saeb Salam and Saad Hariri will succeed Rafik Hariri.
When these tyrants fell from power, they left their country with no viable alternative, as during their rule they spent every personality or institution that could be a substitute, because they felt that this posed a threat to their existence … and what’s more dangerous and worst is that they left a weak and trembling people scared of initiative after their soul died as a result The oppression that was practiced against him, as well as his division and the blood that flowed between his components , which opened the door to outside interference.
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There are also common denominators that unite the fallen countries to Al-Hatma which make them states that have great value and weight in the Arab arena. Entrance to the Red Sea and trade corridors between east and west via the Suez Canal.
The other feature that unites these countries is that it is the food safety valve for the Arabs. Sudan has vast areas of agricultural land which, if properly utilized, will be sufficient to feed Arabs and Africans together, and Iraq is the fertile land of Mesopotamia, and few of us know that the area of ​​agricultural land in Syria is the double the area of ​​agricultural land in Egypt, even Somalia, God blessed it with great livestock and wealth of fish.
Iraq and Libya are oil-producing countries and members of OPEC, and Iraq has experienced and made great strides in the field of nuclear energy, and Israel has targeted it with its raid, which has destroyed its Osirak reactor in 1981 and then completely destroyed by the American invasion, just as Libya had a nuclear program that was dismantled by mutual agreement after the increase International pressures have wasted the enormous money spent on these programs, as well to the murders that have affected the scholars participating in these programs, the most famous of which is Dr. Yahya Al-Mashad.
Also worth mentioning is the Israeli raid on what is said to be a nuclear reactor under construction in Syria, which indicates the possibility of accumulating nuclear expertise in Syria.
Lebanon, Iraq and Syria are among the most important beacons of intellectual and cultural radiation in the Arab world, and turning off these beacons has a great impact on the Arabs, and we also have Somalia and Sudan, which represent the bond and intertwining between Arabs and Africans. necessary to refute the saying of Africa north of the Sahara and sub-Saharan Africa that separates whites and blacks and also between whites and blacks. And the Arabic and the African, which is the scheme that managed to divide Sudan and the southern dislocation, and it is a scheme that goes beyond the simple division of Sudan, but aims to transform Arabism into a racist concept which does not accept the black African, Shia Muslims, Kurds, Berbers or Christians, and puts an end to the concept of the Arab world as a homeland for all who reside there. In his civilization, he fought for his safety and spoke his language, and then insisted on canceling the name of the Arab world and replacing it with the term Middle East and North Africa where different races and bees live in his country, each one in his country isolated from the other, in implementation of the idea of ​​the new Middle East.
Are what happened isolated events that occurred in different countries without a desired plan or goal, or are there common denominators that indicate planned action?
What the aforementioned countries have gone through is a roadmap towards devastation and the abyss, we really need to realize that so that we don’t walk in its path.