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The arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "wow, elephants fly."
-Thomas Friedman
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The Arab Awakening Was Like Watching Elephants

Thomas Friedman
The arab awakening was like watching elephants fly: something you didn't expect, something you haven't seen before, "wow, elephants fly."
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I think no country is going to be immune from the arab awakening because the arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. i think that applies to young people in saudi arabia as much as to young people in egypt, tunisia, or yemen, or libya, or syria. if i were in saudi arabia, i would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.
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I have seen war. i have seen war on land and sea. i have seen blood running from the wounded. i have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. i have seen the dead in the mud. i have seen cities destroyed. i have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. i have seen children starving. i have seen the agony of mothers and wives. i hate war.
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Recall that the united nations commissioned arab scholars and analysts to publish the arab human development report. what causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? their conclusion? of all world regions, the arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.
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Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. i think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening.
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What is irreversible in the arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. that is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. they feel that they can do it, and it's still there. at the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. so to be very quick by saying, "oh, revolutions and arab spring," and - you know, what i'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.
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Arab children, corn ears of the future, you will break our chains, kill the opium in our heads, kill the illusions. arab children, don't read about our suffocated generation, we are a hopeless case. we are as worthless as a water-melon rind. dont read about us, dont ape us, dont accept us, dont accept our ideas, we are a nation of crooks and jugglers. arab children, spring rain, corn ears of the future, you are the generation that will overcome defeat.
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