"Writing on the need for all - the West included - to ensure the change in Tunisia was peaceful, pluralist, democratic and inclusive, Hussein Ibish, a fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, wrote this week: ''Such reform would demonstrate that Arab political space can be opened up without the seizure of power by Islamists.
''The Tunisian rebellion appears to have been driven by principles essential for the development of a moderate, centralist Arab reform movement that replaces an old order that is moribund, if not one that is already dead, and avoids a new order controlled by religious fanatics.'' " Brisbane Times
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