It's the economy stupid -
or prosperity for all in the Middle East
The common justification for the Middle East conflict is the struggle for existence of Israel, affirm the many, many negative perspective and especially the neighbors. It may be a facet of a problem, but it certainly is not critical to the poverty and oppression that prevail in much of the region.
but once we make the thought experiment and remove the state of Israel from the region. Had Saddam Hussein will not be first against Iran, then against Kuwait and most recently led war against the Americans. Would have become of the Taliban, a peace-loving, tolerant human rights movement, which had decided against Osama bin Laden and for the women's movement. How could it have been like in Darfur. There were no massacres happened. What would be the Islamic terrorist Al Qaeda, on 11 September 2001 struck unexpectedly.
The Western world with a good measure to blame for the fate of the region. After the British had done together with Rommel's desert foxes, large parts of the Middle East today, the battlefield, the United Nations wanted a new order of states reasons after the Second World War. The state borders such as Iraq or Lebanon were completely arbitrary and based on the rulers, who laid the former colonial masters on the map and not to the existing tribes, ethnic and linguistic boundaries. For example, in Iraq, the Sunni and the Shiite community of faith mixed with Kurds, Lebanon, Christians should live together with Palestinians, and Jordan has a high proportion of Palestinian population.
Looking at the independent states of Israel and uses the tools that gave us Walter Eucken given by the hand, the thesis of the interdependence of systems, an idea which is different from the popular Interpretations differ significantly.
Eucken's message is simple: A market economy needs the order of a free constitutional state in order to guarantee the freedom and control over the private property of all citizens and to allow equal opportunities. Any form of coercion and violence makes the chance of competition and freedom destroyed permanently. Today is also empirical evidence that only a market economy gives people the chance to acquire wealth and to enjoy freedom itself.
This region next to Israel is just a liberal law that protects the dignity of man and his rights in a similar manner, although not always according to our standards may be the case: Turkey. It drives even trade with Israel and if I remember correctly, there is also cooperation in defense and arms deals between the two countries. Turkey is a liberal constitutional state and in the wide region is the only parliamentary democracy composed, which is inhabited mostly by Muslims. But the state is säkularisert, there exists a strict separation between the State and the Muslim religion. So far, Turkish nationals are also not entered as terrorists for the Islamist movement in appearance.
All other structures in the region are not comparable with our standards of a rule of law. Let be divided roughly into three categories.
· dictatorship or semi-democracies with oil holding
· dictatorship or semi-democracies without oil owned
° apparent Democratic structure without state monopoly.
The first group concerns mainly the countries bordering the Persian Gulf. During the Iran follows Marx's maxim that religion is opium for the people and tries to befuddle an entire nation in fact, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the situation, the population illegitimate by an insignificant participation in the seizure of oil wells acquired wealth to keep quiet. Aggressive use of this Revenues at home by building tourism and offshore companies to be largely with the laws of Islam not free rebel-held companies and not the middle class because they are permanently in a tolerable situation.
The second group relates to countries such as Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Here is no oil there and a small elite has the entire economy, broken under the nail. There are few rich who exploit the total population. Although listed here as part marktwitschaftliche mechanisms, corruption and lack of equal opportunity can these countries in their area only as a means of exploitation by the "ruling class" are. The guarantee of private property is subject the arbitrariness of the state and not the law.
The third group includes Lebanon and the area known as the Palestinian self-government. They are marked by the absence of a separate state 'such as Iraq, too, where terrorists contact with their bombs are not everyday American against the occupation, but against the security forces that their own legitimate parliamentary representative government, and impose just such a monopoly should. The same applies also to clear the way for large parts of Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan.
Within those regions there are no regular police, who from the civil Protects crime and not a military that would be able to protect the country from attack, but strong so-called militias, armed private armies that promise their owners power and high economic income in the regions where they operate.
The absence of the state monopoly that allows movements such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda to carry out their terrorist trade, without fear that their own police or army, they spit in the soup.
The rulers in these states and their related economic and political elites have to lose from the establishment of liberal constitutional states in their regions much. Power and influence, but auch Einkommen, Vermögen und Gewinn. Schlimm ist es, dass die europäische Union mit ihren Fördergeldern mindestens zu diesem Zustand beiträgt und nicht mit ihnen knallharte Bedingungen verbindet, die den einfachen Menschen in diesen Regionen das Recht auf Bildung und Chancengleichheit bringt und die Abkehr von Gewalt und Willkür und die Einführung einer freiheitlich-demokratischen Rechtsordnung darstellt. Kurz die Menschen von denen befreit, die sie in Wirklichkeit ausbeuten, ihre eigenen Eliten und politischen Kasten. Stattdessen konnte sich der verstorbene Palästinenser-Führer Arafat aus diesen Mitteln ein dreistelliges Millionenvermögen abzweigen und seine Frau und Tochter Tag für Tag im Paris im Ritz unterbringen, wo sie nach I know, "live" today.
Europe has the chance in Lebanon not to repeat the same mistakes it has done in Palestine with too much Gutmenschentum. And Europe, the errors that made it to the Palestinians make up for it in which it ties aid to the disarming of militias and Fatah and the use of funds on the ground itself and sharp control, so that the corruption is no more doors open.
Even the former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri, after statements by the German public prosecutor, who investigated the murder assassinated by Syrian intelligence agents to avoid what he wanted to create in Lebanon. A liberal Rule of law and a liberal market economy in which the people and the elites do not come to prosperity.
The famous saying by the Erhard "prosperity for all 'gets so a whole new meaning. Because those who steal from their people today, would have to make. Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and Hamas are her most willing helper. The conflict between Islamists and the Western world is not about religious differences. It's about values such as freedom, equality and justice that defends Israel in the Middle East. Not on our behalf, but to our advantage. And the question is whether we can continue to live as we want.
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