It started out with a fruit vendor in Tunisia who decided that he had enough. This was the last straw. He set himself ablaze as police looked on, stunned by his reaction after police had turned over his fruit cart and forbidden him to sell fruit without a license. Little did they know that such action was to set off a series of shockwaves throughout the Arab World.

Many analysts point to rising food prices and dire living conditions as the principal cause for such protests. However, there is also an underlying factor that seems to be a common denominator: people want to decide for themselves. They would like a voice, a say, in how their country is run.

Such words are very dangerous in muslim countries where power struggles do not exist and the law of the Koran and more importantly the opinion of dictators is the voice of the people.

Many analysts contend that Arab unity is based on two unifying factors: governments that support the United States (the Western World) and Israel will surely anger many, and any regime that outrightly opposes them will be popularly acclaimed by the majority of its citizens.

In a way, their mentality is not entirely mistaken. However, reality on the streets of most Arab nations nowadays shows that people are willing to strike a deal and negotiate with most western nations.

The Arab presence in Europe is beginning to have a strong effect on our economy – mostly negative, but there is some good news too. Arab nations are opening their borders to Westerners inviting them to support their protests against obsolete dictatorships that continue in power thanks to corruption, armies and threats against their own citizens who might have a difference of opinion.

The facts speak for themselves: revolution on the streets of Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Sudan, Algiers…

However, there is another conspiracy theory gaining weight regarding an alliance between the Al-Sauds and Israel, to destabilize the region for the sake of maintaining the ruling party in power. Together Israel and the Khaliji ruling families form a frontline for Washington and NATO against Iran and its regional allies.

According to such theory, the experts claim that: “In line with the U.S. and the E.U., it is the alliance formed by Israel and the Khaliji rulers that has worked to create ethnic divisions between Arabs and Iranians, religious divisions between Muslims and Christians, and confessional divisions between Sunnis and Shiites. It is the “politics of division”.[1]

Is there room for democracy in Northern Africa or the Middle East?

Watch the following video on the current situation and decide for yourself:

[1] Source – The Secret Wars of the Saudi-Israeli Alliance