Wrong to think that Arab Spring was premeditated – expert
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March 03, 2012 | 03:41
YEREVAN.- It is wrong to consider that the processes like the Arab
Spring were premeditated and planned, Israeli expert Vanessa Seyman
told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
`These things are like domino. These things are happening
individually, one incident was caused by economic problems, it
generates a sequence, a butterfly effect but nobody knows when it will
end. No one can know what will be the end. I wish it were planned, but
the reality is worse. On my opinion, the US does not have that power,’
she said commenting on the opinion expressed by certain experts who
assert that the Arab Spring was planned by U.S.
According to her, the Arab Spring shocked Israel. No one knows how
these unrests will end, she said adding that the situation in Egypt,
Libya and the ongoing events in Syria are different.
`For me as a professional, it is a critical moment to make changes in
relationship. Israel is stressed because we have to protect ourselves.
The moment when we have a partner to talk to we will engage,’ said
Seyman, head of training and R&D at Israeli NEST Consulting center.
Speaking about the Middle East processes, she stressed that now when
fundamentalists are rising the situation is even worse for Israel than
it used to be.
`In the past it was easier, there was a stalemate, a status quo that
we learnt to handle. Now it is complicated – the Arab world is in
fire, Muslims are killing Muslims,’ she emphasized.
The expert considers that the West does not see the depth of the
conflict perceiving it as a classic conflict between countries and
borders.
`It is not a story any more. The Arab Spring has generated a butterfly
effect that keeps influencing all the countries, not only the
countries but populations, the immigrants.
France, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium with large Muslim
communities, it will be a hard thing to deal with. Once the Arab world
is established and the Muslim brotherhood takes official power in
certain countries, then the West will have to deal with these
challenges from within,’ she said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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