On the English service of Al Jazeera, it was heartbreaking to hear the opposition under gunfire in Libya and Bahrain begging for an intervention of the "international community". But the international community, so swift to lecture Mubarak and Ben Ali by way of the spokesperson of UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, is doing nothing. What's going on? 

Apart from the USA, there is very little reaction or indignation. It is true that the term "indignation" only pops up when it concerns the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US has also vetoed a hypocritical, so-called "Arab" resolution against Israel in the UN. These "Arab" countries had better look after their own people who are mistreated by the millions and who are falling under fire from guns made in UK or made in France.  Made in the U.S. too, but they at least are showing some indignation. 

Let's hope that everyone will be indignant at the murder of a Polish priest in Tunisia. Of course some will blame this murder on the departure of Ben Ali and Mubarak, as if the fate of the Christians and the Jews was any better under their yoke. But it is true that most good souls only whimper when it concerns the Palestinians. And Gaddafi (the operetta general, decorated with medals like a seedy circus monkey) has donated a lot of money, really a lot, to quite a few organizations and political parties in the West... 

Some in Israel are complaining too, but only when it comes to Iran, while imploring that treaties are respected, and that Iranian ships were allowed to cross the Suez Canal. This attitude is becoming more and more defensive, and only reinforces the idea that Israel is within range if the immense popular anger that shakes the Arab-Muslim dictatorships would be drained toward a war. Iran is testing the situation, hoping that Israel will shoot on its warships. This could incite the Islamist currents to take the lead of the revolts, since the democrats are dispersed, the armies are divided, and the West is on the ropes, as always eager to fill its bank accounts. 

Fortunately, the trick of "Palestine endangered" or "Muslims of all countries unite!" no longer works like it has worked for decades. The wife of Ben Ali explained that life was expensive and hard for Tunisians because much food and provisions were sent to the Palestian refugee camps. But the people are less and less gullible and know that it is false, and that the Palestinian problem is carefully maintained by the Arab and Muslim dictatorships with Western support, including the UN. Hence, the Islamists will not necessarily be the trigger. 

With the arrival of hungry Tunisians in Italy (certainly not all Ben Ali supporters, since these have always had passports and money), it becomes clear that these dictatorships are the cause of poor economic governance, supported by shortsighted policies, false Machiavellism, and real cynicism. These elites have favored (for tens of years) the forced immigration which provided troops for the  Left, the orphan of fallen communism. Now they are creating the current heyday of the Front National (FN) in France, which adds to the regime crisis that is affecting all trades.

The more these good souls are indignant, the more the FN will rise, because the wind of revolt does not just blow across the Mediterranean, and not in the direction desired by them. It's a fact. It is not by strengthening the nanny state that the problem will be solved. It seems that human history never delivers new eras without pain. The one that is coming, which is already there, is no exception, and that's a pity. And it's too late for an epidural.