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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018087)" |
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| failure. Sectarian tensions were the key to the trouble in Bahrain, |
| where a Sunni monarchy rules over a restive Shia majority. |
| Islamists, the bogeymen of the west and the enemies of all autocratic |
| Arab regimes, have not - yet - played a significant role. Still, Ennahda |
| in Tunisia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have new |
| opportunities in multi-party systems that will in turn change them. |
| The killing of Osama bin Laden was a timely reminder of the defeat |
| of jihadi ideology in an Arab world being transformed by people |
| power. |
| Another variable has been the response: French support for Ben Ali |
| was embarrassing; the US was praising Mubarak days before he |
| departed. Muammar Gaddafi had no friends - and the Arab League |
| was crucial in providing a figleaf for UN-sanctioned Nato |
| intervention. Bashar al-Assad, by contrast, has yet to be condemned |
| by the UN for a crackdown that has cost at least 1,300 lives. Bahrain |
| is too strategically important to face more than a rebuke from the US. |
| Elsewhere in the region, Israel is nervous about the demise of |
| Mubarak. Turkey fears instability in Syria. The Palestinians, eclipsed |
| by drama elsewhere, are trying to learn lessons. Iran's support for the |
| Arab uprisings is sheer hypocrisy given its crushing of democratic |
| protests since 2009. |
| Now the EU and the US must stop being seen by Arabs as "partners |
| for dictators" in the words of the Tunisian academic Ahmed Driss. |
| Billions of dollars will be needed to support democracy and |
| development. |
| Tunisia and Egypt fear instability as they face free elections. But the |
| really hard transformational work, as the respected commentator |
| Rami Khouri has observed, "will start in the years after the new |
| parliaments are elected and the complete infrastructure of political |
| governance is forged according to the will of the majority" |
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