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A civilisation that used to lead the world is in ruins—and only the locals can rebuild it公仔箱論壇# a( ?9 @7 I7 D5 A2 r/ [) p
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A THOUSAND years ago, the great cities of Baghdad,Damascus and Cairo took turns to race ahead of the Western world. Islam and innovation were twins. The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers—beacons of learning, tolerance and trade. Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state. Even as Asia, Latin America and Africa advance, the Middle East is held back by despotism and convulsed by war. & F; g, v& i0 G' ^TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。. O2 r8 M9 c% \4 q: y
Hopes soared three years ago, when a wave of unrest across the region led to the overthrow of four dictators—in Tunisia,Egypt, Libya and Yemen—and to a clamour for change elsewhere, notably in Syria.But the Arab spring’s fruit has rotted into renewed autocracy and war. Both engender misery and fanaticism that today threaten the wider world.! T/ W7 m6 z/ k8 K+ A) b
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Why Arab countries have so miserably failed to create democracy, happiness or (aside from the windfall of oil) wealth for their 350m people is one of the great questions of our time. What makes Arab society susceptible to vile regimes and fanatics bent on destroying them (and their perceived allies in the West)? No one suggests that the Arabs as a people lack talent or suffer from some pathological antipathy to democracy. But for the Arabs to wake from their nightmare, and for the world to feel safe, a great deal needs to change. 5 t( w- s! ^6 uwww2.tvboxnow.com % z! w9 j) F. a2 j, _$ s2 ~! z/ \www2.tvboxnow.com : U) Q% l2 q4 K/ h% jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe blame gameTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。' ~ e V% j! B3 Y
% c/ X: A; f% QTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。One problem is that the Arab countries’ troubles run so wide. Indeed, Syria and Iraq can nowadays barely be called countries at all. This week a brutal band of jihadists declared their boundaries void, heralding instead a new Islamic caliphate to embrace Iraq and Greater Syria (including Israel-Palestine,Lebanon, Jordan and bits of Turkey) and—in due course—the whole world. Its leaders seek to kill non-Muslims not just in the Middle East but also in the streets of New York, London and Paris. Egypt is back under military rule. Libya, following the violent demise of Muammar Qaddafi, is at the mercy of unruly militias. Yemen is beset by insurrection, infighting and al-Qaeda. Palestine is still far from true statehood and peace: the murders of three young Israelis and ensuing reprisals threaten to set off yet another cycle of violence (see article). Even countries such as Saudi Arabia and Algeria, whose regimes are cushioned by wealth from oil and gas and propped up by an iron-fisted apparatus of state security, are more fragile than they look.Only Tunisia, which opened the Arabs’ bid for freedom three years ago, has the makings of a real democracy. " m( k! e$ b; o9 E' `: Q' v0 L公仔箱論壇" d! Q) f% C# \/ o( @! X6 {/ A. j
Islam, or at least modern reinterpretations of it, is at the core of some of the Arabs’ deep troubles. The faith’s claim,promoted by many of its leading lights, to combine spiritual and earthly authority, with no separation of mosque and state, has stunted the development of independent political institutions. A militant minority of Muslims are caught up in a search for legitimacy through ever more fanatical interpretations of the Koran. Other Muslims, threatened by militia violence and civil war, have sought refuge in their sect. In Iraq and Syria plenty of Shias and Sunnis used to marry each other; too often today they resort to maiming each other. And this violent perversion of Islam has spread to places as distant as northern Nigeria and northern England. + g, l( X1 k" U5 D f3 }4 Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvb8 `4 `: |2 d# A1 X. b/ h* s5 D
But religious extremism is a conduit for misery, not its fundamental cause (see article). While Islamic democracies elsewhere (such as Indonesia—see article)are doing fine, in the Arab world the very fabric of the state is weak. Few Arab countries have been nations for long. The dead hand of the Turks’ declining Ottoman empire was followed after the first world war by the humiliation of British and French rule. In much of the Arab world the colonial powers continued to control or influence events until the1960s. Arab countries have not yet succeeded in fostering the institutional prerequisites of democracy—the give-and-take of parliamentary discourse,protection for minorities, the emancipation of women, a free press, independent courts and universities and trade unions. % M* q$ a# [" `$ Jwww2.tvboxnow.com ) w* X4 k) c$ l4 m$ FTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。The absence of a liberal state has been matched by the absence of a liberal economy. After independence, the prevailing orthodoxy was central planning, often Soviet-inspired. Anti-market,anti-trade, pro-subsidy and pro-regulation, Arab governments strangled their economies. The state pulled the levers of economic power—especially where oil was involved. Where the constraints of post-colonial socialism were lifted,capitalism of the crony, rent-seeking kind took hold, as it did in the later years of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Privatisation was for pals of the government. Virtually no markets were free, barely any world-class companies developed, and clever Arabs who wanted to excel in business or scholarship had to go to America or Europe to do so. ; ]) U0 r! [! Ptvb now,tvbnow,bttvb, }9 }2 H. k/ \ v
Economic stagnation bred dissatisfaction. Monarchs and presidents-for-life defended themselves with secret police and goons. The mosque became a source of public services and one of the few places where people could gather and hear speeches.Islam was radicalised and the angry men who loathed their rulers came to hate the Western states that backed them. Meanwhile a vast number of the young grew restless because of unemployment. Thanks to the electronic media, they were increasingly aware that the prospects of their cohort outside the Middle East were far more hopeful. The wonder is not that they took to the streets in the Arab spring, but that they did not do so sooner. + D+ w" d8 ^& @9 Q e公仔箱論壇TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。# F3 n2 w' k5 p2 c
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These wrongs cannot easily or rapidly be put right. Outsiders, who have often been drawn to the region as invaders and occupiers, cannot simply stamp out the jihadist cause or impose prosperity and democracy. That much, at least, should be clear after the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Military support—the supply of drones and of a small number of special forces—may help keep the jihadists in Iraq at bay. That help may have to be on permanent call. Even if the new caliphate is unlikely to become a recognisable state, it could for many years produce jihadists able to export terrorism. / N9 q8 C$ H* `+ L8 G% ATVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。www2.tvboxnow.com0 `3 v x1 j% J: \- o
But only the Arabs can reverse their civilisational decline, and right now there is little hope of that happening.The extremists offer none. The mantra of the monarchs and the military men is “stability”. In a time of chaos, its appeal is understandable, but repression and stagnation are not the solution. They did not work before; indeed they were at the root of the problem. Even if the Arab awakening is over for the moment, the powerful forces that gave rise to it are still present. The social media which stirred up a revolution in attitudes cannot be uninvented. The men in their palaces and their Western backers need to understand that stability requires reform. & ?; F3 a2 d" W2 qtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb 0 q6 \, G. w: p6 F1 u* WTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Is that a vain hope? Today the outlook is bloody. But ultimately fanatics devour themselves. Meanwhile,wherever possible, the moderate, secular Sunnis who comprise the majority of Arab Muslims need to make their voices heard. And when their moment comes,they need to cast their minds back to the values that once made the Arab world great. Education underpinned its primacy in medicine, mathematics, architecture and astronomy. Trade paid for its fabulous metropolises and their spices and silks. And, at its best, the Arab world was a cosmopolitan haven for Jews,Christians and Muslims of many sects, where tolerance fostered creativity and invention.www2.tvboxnow.com! H% v' ?0 t* G- A* v! V
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Pluralism, education, open markets:these were once Arab values and they could be so again.Today, as Sunnis and Shias tear out each others’ throats in Iraq and Syria and a former general settles onto his new throne in Egypt, they are tragically distant prospects. But for a people for whom so much has gone so wrong, such values still make up a vision of a better future.公仔箱論壇5 u% }5 p0 d0 x5 Z" Q
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■以軍不斷空襲加薩市，被炸處冒出大量濃煙。美聯社 ! f" X% d- S- n6 Q$ p, G公仔箱論壇TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) \$ h: N/ v. u, @
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以色列和哈馬斯連續第四日互轟炮火，令死亡人數破100之際，黎巴嫩武裝分子亦加入戰團，昨日（周五）發射多枚火箭炮突襲以色列，以色列發射25枚炮彈還擊，炮火轟轟響徹以色列中、北部。公仔箱論壇, o0 g, E! R) }" _! o4 b
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以色列昨繼續空襲加薩，一輛汽車被炸彈擊中，車上三人兩死一重傷，令以軍四日空襲的死亡人數上升至100人，哈馬斯1,100多個據點受襲。哈馬斯拒絕屈服，向特拉維夫發射三枚火箭，但全被以軍鐵穹防空導彈擊落。哈馬斯警告，以色列本古里安國際機場設有軍用機場，已被他們列入昨日攻擊目標之內，要求航空公司停止往來本古里安的所有航班。6 t5 r( C' r. s* a5 B7 O
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以色列總理內坦亞胡昨發表電視講話，強調以軍空襲取得如期進展，哈馬斯及恐怖組織受到重創，又揚言以軍將會發動更多攻擊。奧巴馬和內坦亞胡舉行電話會議，指美方願意斡旋停火。美國國務卿克里發言人亦暗示美方不想戰事擴大：「不願任何人發動地面攻擊。」以色列日前動員四萬名後備軍，為發動地面攻擊做準備。3 O4 M3 B8 z" t0 S' G
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