What that means is that the newly freed people of the Middle East must toughen their idealism with hard realism.

But their idealism and hope, because they corresponded to the most basic of human aspirations dignity, freedom and economic development have continued to prevail and have preserved their vitality, even in adversity.

This was naturally a disaster for communists and socialists, but also for social democrats, for they had lost an ideological basis for their idealism.