Behind the horrors of the killing in Syria - which led the Syrians into the tunnel of destruction of the country and the humanity of the people - the scenes are dissipating in other Arab countries that have not yet overcome the labor of the spring revolutions. In Tunisia, the conflict is heating up between those calling for the Caliphate and the supporters of modernism, while in Libya, the dead are falling during the rehearsal for the federalism battle. In Yemen, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh is returning at the head of the People's Congress Party to undermine the transitional phase and exercise his hobby through maneuvers damaging politics and tampering with the country's fate out of retaliation against the revolution. The Arab spring revolutions which toppled tyranny in Tunisia, Libya and Yemen are still at the beginning of a road filled with the dangers of crushing divisions and the threat of seeing their spark turning into a massive fire. This will leave nothing in the states and societies except for infighting instincts between drifting groups willing to attack any opponent in order to survive. In reality, the battle of flags in Tunis and Benghazi is leading us back to questions related to the revolution's inability to understand what is wrong with it. Indeed, just like tyranny relies on the annulment and exclusion of the other – even if this other is the entire population who is demonized by the rulers – the attempts to monopolize the outcome of the political action and the revolution in Tunisia or Libya cannot be transformed into heaven, just because the victims of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's tyranny and those of Muammar al-Gaddafi's are the ones leading them on the street or trying to change the identity of society while benefitting from the ballot boxes and the assumption to power. Tunisia will pay a hefty price - in blood and tears - if it is pushed to deter the extremists coming from all sides by use of force. This was said by President Al-Moncef al-Marzouki whose warning was extremely eloquent in revealing the status of the country after decades of “foreign and local tyranny” and more than a year following the Jasmine Revolution. Indeed, instead of Jasmine, strife can be smelled between the secular and supporters of modernity and freedoms on one hand, and the extremist Salafis who took down the Tunisian flag as though blatantly announcing there was no need to maneuver around the “moderation” of Ennahda Party on the other. As to the shredding of copies of the Koran, and while it prompts mobilization during the preparation of the new Tunisian Constitution, it will only lead to further hostility toward the secular on the street. Between the modernists and the Salafis, the civil state and the Islamic state, the calls of the secular against backwardness and the calls of the advocators of the Caliphate on the university platforms and squares, the Tunisians in the post-Jasmine Revolution phase are back to square one at the level of the Arab inability to become aware of the requirements of freedom, justice and the state. They are also back to square one at the level of the exclusion, which is still hijacking the history and course of the Arabs, thus causing the absence or forced absence of a partner by use of force and accusations of infidelity and treason, and rendering the one-color among the requirements of deceitful stability. We ask again: Why was the West able to build a state and institutions following its industrial revival, while we are failing to revive the purpose of the history of a region that is consuming us all or drowning us in an endless state of war? The wars to get rid of colonialism ended with slavery to the rifles of the insurrectionists, and the wars to get rid of the tyrants under foreign flags only produced an Iraq governed by explosions and bloodshed under a faltering state. And if we choose to engage in a battle of flags on the street while disregarding the curse of Takfir and monopolization, what freedom during the era of the revolution will maintain justice and not renew the youth of tyranny? Tunisia's Jasmine is besieged by the flags. There is no state without partnership and no partnership without equality, and without the latter, the history of the Arabs will remain a mere time lapse for futile consumption.
