Talking 'bout a Revolution

I am sitting at home, watching Aljazeera and what is happening in Jericho, and the Israeli bombardment of the jail there, to arrest the head of Al Sha3bieh...and my birthday happiness has pretty much disappeared.
The point is that I watch this stuff and just get very depressed, I always think that the situation couldn't possibly get any worse, and I keep getting proved wrong. I mean how can it continue to spiral downhill, and how is it that the world is just standing by? Fuck the world, why are the Arabs standing by? I don't' understand!
Last night, my friends and I were talking about this, is it in our culture to be so passive, or is it that we are so oppressed? I am more of the belief, that it is not our culture, I mean look at what happened after the Danish cartoons were published, we obviously have the culture and the ability to revolt. It must be because people are to oppressed, I mean how can a someone who is not given the real space to express herself think about revolting? What is more, there is no middle class, and if one is to follow Marxist theory, we need that class to actually think and then push for a change. The elite are to happy in the status quo, and the working class are to busy trying to make sure that they have food at the end of the day. I mean my friends and I can sit and talk about this till our faces turn blue, but we are part of the elite I guess, and what would we really benefit from forcing a change.
Wallah I don't know, all I know is I am quite down, and seem to be reaching the point of losing my hope, and my belief that everyone wants thing to change, that people are willing to risk everything to do that. I look at my parents lives, and what that generation believed in, what they did, and I am gutted that our generation-which has had more opportunities and greater chances-just doesn't seem to have the guts, the will, nor the ambition.