The Arabs are recreating their homeland. The barren sands may yet become a flourishing oasis, an Emerald City in the Middle East.
They never needed to call on some faraway magician or fairy to wave a magic wand.
All they had to do (!) was band together and demand as one their rights and liberty back.
In an indirect allusion, the Scarecrow has gotten a new set of brains, Dorothy has drenched the Wicked Witch of the Middle East, the coward lion (the teeming masses) have gathered their courage, and iron wrought with heart is taking on the tyranny which has so long oppressed the Middle East.
And the whole world is watching.