Mohammed Ahmed Mashatt

Almadinah newspaper IF security and stability are some of the conditions necessary for achieving development, then Arabs are surely excluded from this. Arabs still live in a state where competing interests cause divisions and therefore, they will always be trapped in backwardness, far away from development. The barbarity of antagonism and constant state of war is stripping humans of emotions that would otherwise bloom by fraternity. There is only constant destruction with no chance of rebuilding. Barriers must be broken to have a fresh start and the major barrier is the raging fire that kills brothers, friends, women, children and destroys villages and infrastructure. We all know that destruction is the easiest to carry out and anyone can accomplish this in a short time but building takes time, effort and patience. If we look at what our neighboring countries have been exposed to and take the destruction, killing, and displacement of its citizens into consideration, the cruelty and depth of what these people have gone through will dawn on us. A reasonable person will realize how psychologically, emotionally, culturally and scientifically backward Arabs are. The rebuilding of all what that has been destroyed in that ugly period of time will take more than a decade to undo so that people can start all over again, trying to catch up with the development of the world. This will of course only be true if billions of dollars are provided for recovery work. The irony is when the person who is needed to rebuild the country is the person who has spent billions of dollars destroying it. Taking Syria into consideration, we need to ask ourselves: Where was the sanity of Arabs when wars came to these countries?