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Arab Diplomacy

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1959 to 2000

L'Express published the 18/01/2011 an article entitled "After Tunisia: a spring Arabic? "The author was an explicit reference to the book of Benoist-Mechin published in 1959 [1 ]

After a long journey in the East, Benoist-Mechin wrote highlight its Arab Spring (1959): "The world is changing faster than we think and rejects as wrecks all those who do not turn as fast as him. "

The author could quote the whole paragraph and to avoid a contradiction:

transformers and released from a variety of designs that I'm still alive but the weather had dried up and rendered obsolete. We must bow to the obvious: the world is changing faster than we think and rejects as wrecks all those who do not turn as fast as him . It takes some effort to do and say. But as the prophet wrote: "Nothing is more despicable than those who know and do not say, except those who say and do are not. "Courage is an extension of lucidity.
Op. cit. p.15

The trip to the Middle East, directed by Benoist-Mechin between 17 December 1957 and April 30, 1958, was his "Road to Damascus ." Benoist-Mechin converts his admiration for Nazi Germany into a passion for the Arab world as will Jean Genet later [ 2].

Most journalists, who return by copying and pasting the expression an "Arab spring " Benoist-Mechin unaware that evoked not a change in the Arab world, but his vis-à-vis the reality discovered during his Travel:

The four months I spent in the East I have not only learned a lot about the Arab world and Islam. They led me to wonder about myself, about my country, this western civilization of which I was a heirs. [...] Why not admit it? The foundation of my thoughts have been shaken. Some concepts, which I referred and usually I did not think to question, have wavered on their bases.
Op cit. p.14

Is not that what happens to the politics-media which is forced by events to challenge their prejudices against the Arab world - a world that Europe was frozen in colonial Orientalism imaginary? But to hear sermons on democracy intended to stifle social aspirations, it is doubtful that Europe has abandoned his dream of a race of Lords .

23/02/2011
Serge Lefort
World Citizen

See also:
• Jacques Benoist-Mechin, Site - Wikipedia - Archives and historical memories of Jacques Benoist-Mechin .
• Edward Said, Orientalism - The East created by the West Seuil, 1980 [ World Question ].
Documented & Bibliography Africa, World Question .
Documented & Bibliography Colonialism, World Question .

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[ 1] Benoist-Mechin, An Arab Spring , Albin Michel, 1959 reissue 2000 [ population ].

During this trip he visited in order, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey.

[ 2] Jacques Benoist-Mechin, Bibliomonde :

Jacques Benoist-Mechin is, in the 1930s, a journalist admirer of Hitler during the Second World War, he is a senior officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Vichy government. This collaboration with the Third Reich, it is a trial and death sentence in 1945 that will not be executed. Imprisoned in Clairvaux, he was finally pardoned in 1953.