People tie the Arab spring to things: do not like, they fear, or they have interest in. Arab spring is where normal Arab people rebelled against corruption, discrimination, opportunistic, living under slavery of dictators and their families and relatives. Arab spring has nothing to do with the outside world or others outside the Arab states except oppositions living in exile/s.
The Arab spring has nothing to do with religions and religious issues. Arabs, for the first time, were able through the web such as facebook and Twitter to organize large demonstrations against Dictators. First : (TUNISIA) Arab Spring started in Tunisia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi Google: mohamed bouazizi Last : (SYRIA) Because of the extreme fear and intimidation Syrians lived with for 42 years.
Under the same illegal, racial, criminal, most ugly regime in the world. The last Arab state that joined the Arab spring was Syria. The last uprising against this regime was in the 1982.
Where the last Illegal president Hafez Assad and his brother killed 40.000 Syrians to appease them and destroyed the city of Hamah. Google : Hamah city The current uprising started In the Syrian city of Dara’a on the border with Jordan. Where some kids, influenced by the TV’s news of the Arab spring in other Arab states, wrote things on a wall where the kids were forcefully taken from their parents, imprisoned, tortured, their nails were taken of, and at the beginning refused to free them under any circumstances.
As a result their parents rebelled and some of them were shot died by the regime. This resulted the uprising to start and escalate in many other areas of Syria. For many months, the regime as used to in the last 42 years, used extreme force, torture, and direct killing.
Against peaceful protestors and accused them of all kind of bad accusations, banned the international media from entering Syria and converted it into a large prison. All that resulted in the escape of soldiers with their arms from the army and established small armed groups to protect civilians. Later, armed struggle against the regime started after months of daily killing of civilians and no help of any kind from outside Syria.
By now over 30.000 were killed, 100s of thousands in prisons, women have been raped by the regime, Kids and babies have been slaughtered, millions fled the country, cities have been destroyed by most sophisticated arms. The Syrian regime even, have been bullying, harassing, and threatening Syrians and/or others around the world who opposed. Unfortunately, still there is nobody really helping to stop the massacres until now.
Iran has been helping the regime by influencing Russia and china in the UN, supplying the regime with arms and skillful Iranian soldiers. During this uprising, the ruling regime have been killing civilian and telling the world that they have been fighting terrorists. The same way did in the last 42 years of tutoring under the lie that they were fighting Israel and America. Anybody opposed that lie was taken, tortured, considered traitor and executed.
Al-Ba’ath party has 2 branches, one ruling Syria under Al-Assad and the other was ruling Iraq under Saddam Husain with the same ideology and ideas. The Syrian story started with the father (Hafez Assad) who came from the poor alawate village (Qardaha) on the Syrian coast. He wanted to study medicine but he couldn’t because he was too poor.
He went to the military school and later he and his colleagues in Al-Ba’ath party illegally and forcefully overthrew the government and took over the power in Syria. Then, Assad imprisoned those colleagues until they died in prisons and controlled Syria alone with his family and made Syria the only Apartheid Arab state. Alawates from Qardaha and other Alawate villages invaded the Syrian cities like Locusts and controlled all kind of high positions in Syria.
The way they speak has a tune and some special words and this distinguished them. Syrians feared them to death whenever they are because they know that they are above the law. Directly after Hafez Assad passed away, the constitution was altered and his son Bashar inherited illegally the presidency of Syria and the regime remained the same.
Now, Al-Assad family and cousins and relatives control absolutely everything in Syria, and they are one of the richest worldwide and that one reason why they do not want to leave power. The other reason is that they are alawate, a religious group who follow the Shia (Iran) in Islam; and that why Iran is unconditionally supporting them. Recently, Iranian official said that the victory of Assad is the victory of Iran.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.