Poland’s Model for Arab Democracy http://thepassionateattachment.com/2011/10/09/polands-model-for-arab-democracy/#more-2507

A group of Arab Spring activists are in Poland observing the former Communist bloc country’s parliamentary elections, Associated Press reports:Fifteen activists and election officials — five each from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya — met Friday with deputy foreign ministers Krzysztof Stanowski and Jerzy Pomianowski. They also held a meeting with the members and judges of the State Electoral Commission.[Of course, this is not the first time that Poles have helped promote democracy in the Middle East. As I wrote previously:

Under the direction of Natan Sharansky, the former Israeli minister who resigned his cabinet seat in 2005 in protest over Ariel Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan, the Jerusalem-based Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies held a “Democracy and Security” conference in Prague in 2007. The conference brought together right wing Israelis; their American neoconservative sympathizers, with their favourite Middle Eastern dissidents in tow—most notably, Richard Perle’s Israel-admiring Syrian protégé Farid Ghadry; and the newly-installed Eastern European democrats swept to power in the wake of a wave of neocon-backed “color revolutions,” the latter group presumably serving to inspire the Arab and Iranian participants to emulate them.

Representing Poland at that seminal “democracy promoting” event were Barbara Dillon Hillas, Principal, Dillon Hillas & Dillon, LLC; Tomasz Pompowski, Foreign and Opinions Editor, Polskapresse; and Eugeniusz Smolar, President, Center for International Relations.[If the Polish experience is anything to go by, before long many Arabs will also be wondering who really benefited from their revolutions.