The Arab « business » does not excite the opinion voyeurism anymore. Nor does it sharpen fantasies any more. Passion is gone; the international public is henceforth used to the overstatement, which ravages the Orient …
But this disinterest cannot only be explained by the current football-dominated media, which mobilises the attention of hordes of imbeciles, unconsciously wiggling about at the stadium’s exits. The bravest sit in their living rooms, popcorn in reach and a pint in their hand. All this because eleven guys in short pants – laughing all the way to the bank for kicking a ball – have won a “match” in a country, Brazil, in which hundreds of thousands of miserable protest every day against this financial and social scandal – nicknamed the “Mundial”. Thesecretins, the supporters, who apparently ignore everything about the alarming social inequalities structuring economic life in Brazil, become saturated with beer and cover themselves in vomit, in a simple and blank joy…
No, the “Mundial” does not explain everything … It would rather be a form of deception or even weariness (like after eating too much chocolate preferring strawberries), a symptom of a deep boredom caused by the totalitarian and “corruptivist” routine to which the people of the Spring have returned.
Simultaneously to all this energy being spent on leisure, civil war is raging in Iraq – the mass media barely even mention it – and casually the whole region is going through a geopolitical remoulding, as discrete as it is sensitive. Iran and the USA finally agree on the partition of a macabre dance; an improvised orchestra inview of the surprising rise in Islamist insurrections – oil stains – accompanied by the great resounding of Israel’s wait-and-see silence.
The Persian Gulf monarchies have also joined the ball, outmoded and sheepish, stunned by the good results of their salafist Frankensteins, which they have been financing since decades to fasten their influence in the region…
During this time as well, the closed door Syrian situation continues in increasing indifference displayed in worldwide media. Is the Syrian team qualified for the « Mundial »? Actually, it isn’t…
The lid of the coffin has closed itself on al-Sham and no single occidental observer dares to lift it up. It’s just that setting foot intoSyria is quite certainly fuelling the jihadist kidnapping industry. Also, Syria seems to evade current affairs …
In the meantime, in the vast sector of Asia, a game of musical chairs of great magnitude is being played, under the auspices of the extreme reactionaries of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), which appears to be unstoppable in its advance.
The Sunni minority in Iraq has risen against the bullying of the pro-American Shi’a government of the Prime-Minister Nouri al-Maliki – paradoxically also supported by Iran (in appearance at least, since the latest elections in Iran have entirely changed the diplomatic order clouding over Tehran and Washington, suddenly making both friends that are nearlyas thick as thieves)…
The Sunni of Iraq who had previously welcomed ISIS (as did the Touaregs and the Arabs of Northern Mali), realised that these crazed Charia followers would also meddle things up at home – where from the sudden last-minute shift. In Fallujah the population is slashed in the crossfire…
The Kurds on their side are trying to pull out of the game by fighting ISIS, not to save Iraq, No! But to seize the most territory possible (which the Peshmerga will certainly not return to the authorities in Baghdad) and to proclaim an independent Kurdistan stretching to Syria and Turkey, under the eyes of Ankara – whose regional policy is revealed as more chaotic than ever (it is its foreign policy, which gives the blessing to Kurdistan consolidating its territory and exporting petrol taken away from the Iraqi state) – and of Damascus – seemingly already having abandoned this part of the national territory.
As to the ISIS fighters, they have crossed the Euphrates and are camping less than thirty kilometres away from Baghdad’s international airport.
A new reality comes into existence, with heavy international implications, but the media world lacks foresight, not having taken account of it.
This 21st of June, in the group phases of the « Mundial », Iran has kept in check the Argentine ogre until stoppage time; a goal from the attacker Messi – apparently one of the two best players of the planet – was necessary to deal the deadly blow to the Tim Melli.
That being said, the Ayatollahs’ team is still in the running for the six kilos of pure gold (18 carats) and malachite of the Italian sculptor Silvio Gazzaniga…
Perhaps in the end it will be spoken of.
