A few weeks ago we saw pictures of the Tunisian crowd exulting for the ouster of the satrap Ben Ali and the world was moved and hailed the beginning of a new era of peace, prosperity and progress. In these hours will be on stage the same movie set in Cairo, with one difference: the satrap is called Mubarak and has resisted more than it was expected. For the rest is all the same, as is identical the rhetoric of the media in praise of the oncoming Western freedom, the joy of the crowd, the awakening of the Arab world, the increasing involvement of the fanatic muslims of the muslim brotherhood and of Al Queida.
Yet at this very hour is beginning the landing of illegal immigrants in Lampedusa. Of course they are all Tunisians, and in a few days (that is not difficult to predict), they will be all Egyptians. Thousands and thousands, to the point that the Italian government is forced to proclaim the humanitarian emergency.
But if in Tunisia has actually started a new, joyous time with extraordinary perspectives of growth, something is not working. Logically, the Tunisians should remain in their Country. The reality though, as always is very different from what is described by the mainstream media.
We wonder: Why are you escaping? Perhaps because the change is not as it was announced, due to a persistent control of the same generals who were previously in command? For now, the only tangible change is that the new-old regime, has eased the border controls or at least has more difficulties to monitor the coasts. And the Tunisians seem to like more a life of hardship at ours, than the promise of a new era in their country, which in truth we do not believe will ever be.
Good result, though. And Congratulations to Mr. Hussein Obama, without whom none of this would have been possible. Meanwhile, we pay the price.
Yet at this very hour is beginning the landing of illegal immigrants in Lampedusa. Of course they are all Tunisians, and in a few days (that is not difficult to predict), they will be all Egyptians. Thousands and thousands, to the point that the Italian government is forced to proclaim the humanitarian emergency.
But if in Tunisia has actually started a new, joyous time with extraordinary perspectives of growth, something is not working. Logically, the Tunisians should remain in their Country. The reality though, as always is very different from what is described by the mainstream media.
We wonder: Why are you escaping? Perhaps because the change is not as it was announced, due to a persistent control of the same generals who were previously in command? For now, the only tangible change is that the new-old regime, has eased the border controls or at least has more difficulties to monitor the coasts. And the Tunisians seem to like more a life of hardship at ours, than the promise of a new era in their country, which in truth we do not believe will ever be.
Good result, though. And Congratulations to Mr. Hussein Obama, without whom none of this would have been possible. Meanwhile, we pay the price.
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