Discourse Analysis of Identity and the Elements of ...
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to the political tyranny in Arab countries, securing these countries generally meant maintaining security for their rulers. This security could be gained through alliance with the US and the West. The Egyptian author writes about semantic changes through Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak: Egypt didn’t act as a regional and international activist as it had accepted global liberalization and the US strategies. It became the most important ally to the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. This let Israel continue its colonist policy in the occupied Palestinian territories. Nasser had set up a guaranteed economic system to secure the growth of the middle class and proper distribution of wealth among the poor citizens. But Sadat and Mubarak replaced it with a system that only served the interests of corporations and imperialist capitalism. Back in 1990 in his speech at the Haj conference, The Leader of the Islamic Revolution described the result of the connection between Arab nationalism and the West as following: Fighting against Islamic Awakening has various forms across the world. In Algeria, majority of people vote for an Islamic group in a free and democratic elections but a violent coup annuls the election, cracks down on people and puts the elected people in jail. In Sudan, Islamic groups come to power through absolute popular support, and then the West start provocation and threaten them both inside and outside their borders. In Palestine, Muslims are brutally tortured by the Zionists and in southern Iraq, popular uprisings that are arisen out of Islamic motives, against the ruling Ba’ath party are savagely crushed and the US and the West that have already indicated their will for a strong response to