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by Christian Chesnot and Antoine Sfeir,.
Calmann-Lévy, 300 pages, 18 euros.
Since December 27, Israel, in response to firing of rockets from Hamas on its territory, has launched a massive military offensive in the Gaza Strip which was nearly a thousand dead. More than sixty years after the proclamation of the State of Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict takes a turn such that any hope of peace seems to released later. March 20, 2003, the US invading the Iraq on the pretext, not proven, in the presence of weapons of mass destruction. September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorists from most of Saudi Arabia attacked the symbols of American power, doing close to 3,000 dead. The list could continue.
View of the West, the Arab world is perceived by its evils, including terrorism, religious extremism, dictatorships, poverty or even the few cases granted the rights of women... Christian Chesnot, journalist for Inter France, and Antoine Sfeir, political scientist and Director of the "Cahiers d'Orient", engaged in a careful shelling, "clinical analysis", of which remains the "complicated Orient." For two authors, this region is often the object, in the West, a great misunderstanding.
It is true that it gives the impression of being schizophrenic, tormented between Arab nationalism based on the concept of "Ummah arabiyya" (the Arab international community) that represented including the Egyptian Nasser, and on the other hand the "Ummah islamiyya", the Muslim community beyond their nationality embodied a country like Saudi Arabia. A tension between these two notions are found often through conflict in the Arab world, such as those between Palestinian Authority and Hamas, or Hezbollah and other current political and religious in the Lebanon, even in Egypt between the Muslim Brotherhood and the systems to the power.
What is also striking a century after signing in 1916 Sykes-Picot by the France agreements, Britain and the Tsarist Russia providing a share of the Middle East, it is that, behind "this walk backwards in the Arab world", as describe authors, profile continuously the presence of the great powers; not only Great Britain and the France at least until the disastrous Suez 1956 operation, but also and especially the United States. For authors, there is nevertheless a constant 60 years: the strength of the alliance between America and Israel, despite tensions as, precisely, under President Eisenhower, or after the first war in the Gulf as President George w. Bush's father in 1956 in 1992. As every change of President in the United States, can question not on this alliance that will likely step questioning but on the way to interpret that will Barack Obama.
A vast program
Can it resolve to the fatality in "the long descent to the underworld" the Arab world The authors suggest a return to national citizenships but in finding their book, they recognize that there is a vast program... ". . Believe themselves In any case, placing these injuries in the region and what they call his "deadly deadlock" in historical perspectives the authors provide an important contribution to the understanding of this complex world. What is a positive step.
