Arab Spring
A stirring and stunning upheaval in the Arab states is taking place from the Maghreb to the Gulf. United by race, religion, geography and history they who had defeated the armies of the Roman Empire at the great battles of Yarmouk (AD 636), and then the Crusaders, set up an magnificent civilisation that conquered a quarter of Europe.
This time they have risen again with the same courage they were famed for but not against an invader or a foreign enemy and mostly without weapons. The fight is revealingly not against their 20th century foe, the Jews (Israelis) who the Arabs and Turks protected from the Christians for many centuries or for religion. This is an Arab storm attempting to sweep away repression and corruption of some tyrants and many assorted rulers in the Middle East. Even the benevolent have not been spared. It is a revolution that few would have ever believed possible.
The Arabs were long inured to being treated like supplicants if not mendicants by their own rulers who cunningly exploited their ignorance and fear for far too long before granting some measure of freedom and relief when they realised that turmoil was at hand.





