The Arab Human Being .. Between the Hammer of a Painful Reality and the Oak of Hope!

The Arab man lives a painful reality from his ocean to his Gulf, a reality where pessimism dominates the mind of the Arab individual? That individual who is now living under the hammer of fragmentation? A state of frustration makes his personality closer to dissociation, - if the description is valid - while he dreams of freedom and dignity, he is besieged by a sense of frustration due to extreme poverty, economic decline, the absence of social justice, crises related to political legitimacy, dependency, and alienation from his essence and community, which has rooted within him a bitter feeling that distances him from his dreams. Many of our nation's children have translated this into fleeing to the past, promoting myths, living on glories, and at times resorting to violence and dependency.

A series of defeats inflicted upon the Arab and Islamic nations followed the fall of the Ottoman state, with colonial powers (Britain and France at the time) dividing its legacy and implanting a foreign entity into the body of the nation (Israel), which is nothing but a dagger embedded in the Arab flank. The subsequent massacres claimed the lives of millions from the nation during the repression of revolutions that erupted in search of freedom and the removal of the malignant entity from the body of the nation through various oppressive means. However, in the face of the people's insistence on freedom, it was circumvented by fragmenting the Arab homeland into small states and granting a formal independence to most of them, while installing loyal rulers, whose only concern is to maintain their thrones and suppress the opposing peoples through intelligence agencies linked to colonial intelligence, instilling fear and spreading poverty, so that the focus of the Arab individual remains on securing his daily bread and erasing any idea of rebellion, paving the way for acceptance and coexistence with the malignant entity embedded in his flank.

To ensure the loyalty of these rulers, who are only Arab and Muslim in name but are Western in inclination, they play their dubious roles in fulfilling the goals of Zionism and imperialism to gain approval. Yet, they receive nothing but a condescending look and contempt from those who appointed them. Perhaps what the US President Donald Trump said about the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is a living example of that. To keep them under the hammer and ensure they do not deviate from the path set for them, they were immersed in economic, social, and even moral corruption, and their intelligence agencies were funded to pursue anyone from their peoples who dared to resist. To further distract them, colonial powers granted them formal independence but with demarcated borders and the sowing of discord by creating border problems among them, planting sectarian tendencies and hatred within every people, thus preoccupying them with border conflicts under the guise of "liberating what has been taken from the land," and consequently diverting attention from the ambitions and schemes of the malignant entity to expand within the Arab body!!

The Arab individual, helpless in his situation, lives between the hammer of the bitter reality surrounding him from all sides and the oak of emotion and nostalgia for past glories, with hope for a near change that pulls him from his painful reality. Therefore, one sees him emotionally driven and quickly drawn to any event that stirs feelings of dignity and the absent pride, even - which is deliberately concealed - for a long time, as an attempt to escape from his reality. The common saying applies to him: "The drowning man clings to a straw," regardless of the consequences that may leave negative impacts on the course of his life. It is a state of continuous struggle, a state of fragmentation between an imposed and complicated political and economic reality, and overwhelming emotions that plunge him into the depths of a glorious past, which may affect his decisions and positions, imposing significant challenges in achieving balance between the demands of practical life, freedom of thought, and personal dignity.

Undoubtedly, it is a programmed policy based on intimidation and enticement, the title of which is the erasure of the glorious past from the individual's memory, submerging societies in trivialities and pleasures, and excluding the role of intellectuals and thinkers and revolutionaries, by scaring them with an imaginary enemy at times, and using security to pursue them continuously and place them under security scrutiny at other times, or showering them with money and flooding them with corruption in all its forms, leading to the creation of a generation that sanctifies the ruler willingly or under duress, to avoid oppression and suppression, or perhaps to preserve gains. They adopt Western culture as a role model, denying their own culture and the glories of their ancestors, by employing politicians, economists, and even religious figures from the sultans’ sheikhs, whose brains have been washed and directed to serve their masters in the West, excelling in performing their devilish roles!!

But is this the end? Has submission to the painful reality become inevitable? Undoubtedly, those who lose hope lose a life of freedom and dignity. The Arab nation possesses a history, glories, and diverse potentials that cannot be erased, even if all opposing forces conspire against it and besiege it. Hope is in God first, and then in the free peoples with their rich history, who cannot be defeated or remain shackled under oppression and humiliation. From here, it is essential to harness energies and potentials, seize opportunities, invent creative means, and move forward towards desired goals with the utmost effectiveness, by uplifting spirits and instilling the spirit of determination, resolution, and perseverance and not succumbing to reality, overcoming difficulties, regardless of the nature of the losses faced or the challenges that must undoubtedly be overcome.