Middle East: Arab countries taking back their wealth

Al Jazeera

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'Arab world takes back wealth from West'

The Arab world has awakened to take back all its wealth and rights plundered by the West and its current embattled dictatorial regimes, a political analyst says.

“It is the West and these regimes that prevented the development of these people and took away their wealth,” American University of Beirut professor Ahmad Musalli told Press TV.

“What we need to do is to regain our wealth, to start building our state, and to gain our freedom to rebuild what we think is important for us not important for the West,” he went on to say.

“It has been very clear that the national bonds between different Arab countries are still there … we are resurrecting our power and we need our freedom and rights and since we have not been given that people are getting it back by force,” Musalli pointed out.

Pro-democracy movements have been spreading across the Arab countries in recent weeks.

In Tunisia, nationwide outrage at the government's suppressive policies sparked a massive revolution that ended the 23-year-long rule of its despotic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and forced him to flee to Saudi Arabia last month.

On February 11, millions-strong nationwide revolution in Egypt, which started on January 25, ended the three-decade-long rule of US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Other pro-democracy uprisings have also flourished in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria and Jordan, as more Arab countries are expected to witness similar popular revolts.




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