{"id":30,"date":"2011-09-04T17:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/?p=30"},"modified":"2017-01-29T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:16:57","slug":"the-rationale-for-dealing-withforeign-support-for-dictatorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/2011\/09\/04\/the-rationale-for-dealing-withforeign-support-for-dictatorships\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rationale for dealing with\u201cForeign Support\u201d for Dictatorships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&ldquo;Foreign support&rdquo; provided to dictatorships is considered to be one of the major challenges facing the popular resistance movements, who are wagging a &ldquo;Non-Violence War&rdquo; on their regimes. The apparent durability for some of these dictatorships, actually results from the assistance provided from an outside source not from the&nbsp;real power they possess.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>&ldquo;Foreign Support&rdquo; for dictatorial regimes falls into two categories:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&nbsp;1.Logistic Support: by providing money, weapons, media, different&nbsp;forms of security capabilities and expertise.&nbsp;Since this type of support represents a primary element in the struggle between dictatorships and the popular resistance forces, we will use the term&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Direct Support&rdquo;<\/strong>to denote it.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t2.Moral, political, and diplomatic support, which we will refer to as&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Indirect Support<\/strong><strong>&rdquo;<\/strong>&nbsp;for it represents a secondary element in the struggle, and its effect can&nbsp;be overcome relatively&nbsp;easily.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tIn this article our focusis going to be the first type. When&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Direct Support&rdquo;<\/strong>is identified as one of the main reasons to keep the dictatorial regime stand still against the popular resistance, then it should be cut. The &ldquo;Non-Violence War&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t rely on targeting the ruler directly, but to target the means by which he gains power, and try to persuade or force them to give up on him.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>The main objectives of operations dealing with &ldquo;Foreign Direct Support&rdquo; are:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t&nbsp;Disconnect it from the antagonist (The dictatorships).\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t&nbsp;Neutralize it, so it will no longer be&nbsp;a participant in the conflict.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\t&nbsp;Prompt these supportive countries to take&nbsp;the non-violent popular resistance side and provide them with&nbsp;their aid.&nbsp;This off course depends on the&nbsp;actual potentials and capacity&nbsp;of the operations to be performed to handle this kind of support and the nature of the supportive country. Taking&nbsp;the former into&nbsp;consideration, the popular resistance might accept to receive support from one country while reject it from another.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>The basic idea for dealing with the notion of &ldquo;Foreign Support&rdquo; is to convince the supportive countries with the following:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\tThe cost and&nbsp;consequences of&nbsp;providing such support is higher than ones resulting from submitting to people&rsquo;s will, and their assistance to dictatorships will badly affect&nbsp;them.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\tThey will not remain safe from the &ldquo;Non-Violence&rdquo; resistance acts. These countries should not assume that playing their game on a land other than theirs, which gives them a considerable margin of safety, and having their people not aware of the struggle that has been going on, will keep them protected. The scope of the battle of freeing people might be widened, and the weaknesses of these countries are numerous.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\tThe coming era is the &ldquo;People&rsquo;s Era&rdquo;, therefore if these&nbsp;countries really care for their own interests, they should definitely not be on the falling system&rsquo;s side, but rather on that of the people&rsquo;s.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\tThese countries are putting themselves in confrontation not only with the people of the country in which they interfere, but also with all nations believing in and defending freedom.\n\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t\tThe popular resistance forces do not&nbsp;antagonize supportive countries for their own being, but for their actions which are in contrast with their interests. The message the &ldquo;Non-Violence&rdquo; resistance movements try to deliver to these countries is that they still have the chance to correct their course of action and build new relationships&nbsp;based on mutual gains and grounded on competency not dependency.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tThe above provisions can be used in&nbsp;formulating the&ldquo;Non-Violent&rdquo; resistance media&rsquo;s&nbsp;discourse, and color all its movements, which range between&nbsp;persuasion and &ldquo;Non-Violent&rdquo;&nbsp;enforcement.The supportive countries practices will form the criteria upon which the popular movement&rsquo;s tone will be determined.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tThis is the main rationale for the movements of &ldquo;Non-Violence&rdquo; resistance. In the coming articles we will mention some practical ideas on how&nbsp;to handle&nbsp;dictatorships&rsquo; supportive regimes.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\tThe&nbsp;project of &ldquo;Dealing with Foreign Support&rdquo; is&nbsp;significant in the case of &ldquo;Direct Interference&rdquo;. It can be implemented by groups who decide to specialize in this domain, and&nbsp;deal with it within&nbsp;a sound methodological framework, which preserves society and establish a new balanced relationship with countries of the world, after the fall of dictatorships.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>By Ahmad Adel Abd Al-Hakeem and Wael Adel<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>Translated by Rana Mohammed<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<strong>September 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Foreign support&rdquo; provided to dictatorships is considered to be one of the major challenges facing the popular resistance movements, who are wagging a &ldquo;Non-Violence War&rdquo; on their regimes. The apparent durability for some of these dictatorships, actually results from the assistance provided from an outside source not from the&nbsp;real power they possess. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictatorships-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aoc.fm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}