While there is no doubt in my mind that the Arab uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Yemen, (I am omitting Libya and Syria for obvious reasons) were spontaneous popular revolts pursuing freedom, justice and national sovereignty against western-backed dictatorships , it has become increasingly clear that the Arab Spring has been instrumentalized by the Empire and its regional clients as an Arab springboard for defeating resistance forces fighting imperialism and Zionism. 

What the US , Israel and their allies failed to secure with successive invasions, occupations and wars against Palestine and Lebanon, they have now achieved with the defection of HAMAS, the weakening of Syria and a regional climate characterized by widespread sectarian sentiment that has blinded many to the existential threat posed by Israel.  

Thanks to the power of mainstream western media and official Arab media, as well the incendiary rhetoric of some Muslim clerics and Arab leaders, the region’s fault lines have been recast from a strategic conflict between the resistance axis and the US-Israeli-GCC axis, to a Shi’ite/ Persian conspiracy to dominate the Sunni Arab world. 
None of this is to say that this is the final outcome of the Arab uprisings, only that it is a critical phase in the interim which requires us to remain more vigilant than ever before and to redouble our efforts to raise awareness about the sectarian weapon.
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