It’s Foreign Policy, Stupid: Judging Politics in the Arab World
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But foreign policy is a necessary factor and can in fact be used to judge a party in power. The Muslim Brotherhood (and their variants) are now ruling in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, and have pursued foreign policies that are congruent with the foreign policy of the ancien regime. And economically, the governments of Egypt and Tunisia have been quite cozy with the World Bank and the IMF and have endorsed the recipes of the US.
But this is all related to foreign policy. A government that can advance social justice in an Arab country has to be one that breaks with US hegemony and that takes a strong stand against Israel and its occupation and aggression. In other words, the assertion of sovereignty – real and not nominal – can take place only through defying the will of the US-Israeli alliance.