The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power, but have failed.
By Larbi Sadiki
Al-Jazeera
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Arab masses
Massad somehow follows an elitist analytical itinerary. He overlooks the Arab masses: they authored the Arab Spring. His "story" ignores that the US, perhaps more hastily than the Europeans, rushed to salvage its foreign policy failure in the Arab Middle East. It often sided with dictators; excluded Islamists, only intermittently and sporadically, from its management of relations in the region; and as he notes correctly deserved the epithet "most formidable anti-democratic force".
The US and its allies spent decades and billions to prevent the arrival of the Islamists to power. They have failed. The Islamists are a fait accompli and it would be stupid for the Americans to keep on repeating the same mistake. They face a new learning curve; but so do the Islamists who cannot ignore the US. It is a case of many an elephant in the room.....
The Arab Spring (in quotation marks) is treated with a tinge of disdain - and the peoples who made it are excluded for the history Massad narrates in his article. Even the US has bowed to the Arab Spring. Enough of the kind of self-flagellation that in everything positive we find "conspiracy", as if the US is hijacking the Arab Spring, truly the most single emancipatory moment in modern history - in the case of Egypt and Tunisia entirely home-grown and driven by people's power and quest for dignity and freedom. It is one aspect of Arab history with which the International Misery Fund has nothing to do. It is not made in the US....."
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These two columns by Professors Sadiki and Massad are critically important for comprehending the rapidly shifting Arab/ Muslim situation. I have been carefully studying the M.B.'s history in Egypt and I find Sadiki's analysis far more persuasive, despite my high regard for most of Massad's work. If we were to judge the eventual foreign policies of 'Abd al-Nasir from 1952-54, we would imagine a very pro-American result, and the Eisenhower folks were high on the Free Officers. The M.B. at that time was far more anti-American and pro-Palestinian. The withdrawal of Aswan Dam funds from the WB at U.S. urging changed US attitudes and drove 'Abd al-Nasir toward the USSR and the nationalization of the Suez Canal. I am concerned about al-Shatir's neo-liberalism and I hope the M.b. under Morsi can live up to the M.B.'s 1948 pro-Palestinian and anti-imperialist legacy. The Islamists from Hamas, to al-Nadha, to the M.B. deserve their chance. Important debate. I hope for more breakthroughs for Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.
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