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YEREVAN.- It is wrong to consider that the processes like the Arab Spring were premeditated and planned, Israeli expert Vanessa Seyman told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“These things are like domino. These things are happening individually, one incident was caused by economic problems, it generates a sequence, a butterfly effect but nobody knows when it will end. No one can know what will be the end. I wish it were planned, but the reality is worse. On my opinion, the US does not have that power,” she said commenting on the opinion expressed by certain experts who assert that the Arab Spring was planned by U.S.

According to her, the Arab Spring shocked Israel. No one knows how these unrests will end, she said adding that the situation in Egypt, Libya and the ongoing events in Syria are different.

“For me as a professional, it is a critical moment to make changes in relationship. Israel is stressed because we have to protect ourselves. The moment when we have a partner to talk to we will engage,” said Seyman, head of training and R&D at Israeli NEST Consulting center.

Speaking about the Middle East processes, she stressed that now when fundamentalists are rising the situation is even worse for Israel than it used to be.

“In the past it was easier, there was a stalemate, a status quo that we learnt to handle.  Now it is complicated - the Arab world is in fire, Muslims are killing Muslims,” she emphasized.

The expert considers that the West does not see the depth of the conflict perceiving it as a classic conflict between countries and borders.

“It is not a story any more. The Arab Spring has generated a butterfly effect that keeps influencing all the countries, not only the countries but populations, the immigrants.

France, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium with large Muslim communities, it will be a hard thing to deal with. Once the Arab world is established and the Muslim brotherhood takes official power in certain countries, then the West will have to deal with these challenges from within,” she said.

Vanessa Seyman arrived in Yerevan for “Beyond Negotiations: Mastering the Unexpected” master class organized by Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO.

 

 

 

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