What started in Tunisia with the self immolation of unhappy 26 year old fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi, has reverberated around not just the Arab world but the whole world.
There are those that fear that given the lack of a democratic history and institutions in the Arab countries that extremists will seize the moment.
However, I share the view of Monsieur Gérard Araud, French Envoy to the UN, who says ‘The world is changing and I think it is changing for the better and I guess the security council has to be at this rendezvous with history.’
There were those who said that democracy wouldn’t work in Portugal or Spain or in India and have all been proved resoundingly wrong. Why should the Arabs be any different?
How encouraging to see that non politicised professionals and young people are demanding the respect and accountability denied by their own Governments.
Ironic that Al Jazeera is based in Qatar, but any organisation that has been banned by ex-US Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld and ex-Egyptian President Mr Hosni Mobarak must have been doing a good job.
Will there be economic turbulence? Yes, of course. But in the long term the world will be a safer place if the Western democracies for once support the good guys instead of the bad ones.
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