Epilogue
7-3(56)
The Peace on The Horizon
People expected that the peaceful and safety life
would follow to “Arab Spring”. But Arab Spring though tasting like sweets, has
ironically produced massive refugees in the Middle East that have never been
before. People lived peacefully in their hometowns before Arab Spring. But when
the civil war took place in their country, they had no choice but to escape
across the border. Their border was the product of The Sykes-Pico Agreement
signed between UK and France in 1916. The border had been drawn before they
were born. Now, border was going to be melted down before their eyes by Islamic
State (IS).
Japan which is surrounded by the sea and having no terrestrial
border lines can enjoy peace as natural. Therefore, it is very difficult for
Japanese to understand the pain of refugees in the Middle East who suffered
from the conflict about the terrestrial border and were expelled from their
hometown.
"Even if a nation state was broken, their rivers
and mountains remain." This poem means one of the Oriental way of
thinking. It seems difficult to share the same view in the monotheistic world
of Islam. Among the elderly people of the Arabs, "Inshallah (If Good
wills)" is widely accepted for his own fate. But young Arabs are not able
to accept passive philosophy as their parents. They got angry to the
contradiction and inequality in the secular world. Young Arabs believed the
promised heaven in the afterlife. He committed suicide bombing making a martyr
of himself and rushed to heaven.
Young guys who prefer IT rather than martyrdom looked
for change of society by using the Internet's SNS. They called for an
anti-government demonstration through SNS to overthrow dictatorship. The young
generation defeated the dictatorship. It was the so-called Arab Spring. But the
movement did not progress furthermore. Why? It was proved that the society easily
became active when called on the Internet. It was easy to activate the society
was easy, but it was not so easy to change the society.
In the Arab world democratic movement by the students
was taken over by tribal powers or religious forces. The democratic forces
lamented that their fruits have been stolen. That was the true figure of the
modern Arab and Islamic world. In the Arab-Islamic world, the ties of the
"blood" of tribe, and the bond of "religion" of Islam had
deep and firm roots. But there was no solidarity being rooted in "ideology”
like democracy. Ideology is a product of wisdom. The conflict cannot be solved
by the ties of "blood" or the bond of "religion". If any new
ideology would be born in the Middle East, which is not necessarily a product
of West Europe like democracy, it might be possible to open the door for the
peace.
The tweet of the ordinary citizens can be heard. They
say that the long and severe age of dictatorship before Arab Spring was more
peaceful than now. Looking over the chaos in current Middle East, the tweet of
the ordinary citizens means a kind of the truth. Peace in freedom would be
short and peace in oppression would last long. It is an ironic paradox.
During 70 years after the World War II, history have changed
swiftly. People of today accustomed to the speed of change may be assertive
that the history changes during his life. Eternal peace is laying in front of
that illusion. People in the Middle East is chasing for the dream that a great
leader will appear and receive the laurel from the goddess of peace someday in
the future.
(The end)
By Areha Kazuya
E-mail: areha_kazuya@jcom.home.ne.jp
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