The Syrian Crisis and the (State of Exception) of the Arab Spring Revolutions

Abstract

We must pay attention to the stage that preceded the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, which was started by a young Tunisian man who set himself on fire (1) – in protest against the reality he was suffering from in the economic field – which seemed to be an apparent reason – but it concealed other deeper reasons, the most important of which is the political reason related to the responsibility of the existing political regimes for what that young man was suffering from, who represents a symbol of the suffering of the youth segment in his country as well as in other Arab countries, on the one hand, and on the other hand there was no international interest in what those tyrannical authorities did towards their people, with the exception of weak voices from some organizations about human rights violations in those countries, which did not leave them any room to influence the policies of the major countries, especially the United States of America.