Arab Spring

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A prominent Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization

Amjad Taha, Arab voice supporting Israel-Arab normalization
A demonstrator holds empty tear gas canisters during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation, in Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2023. PremiumPremium

The Arab Spring is dead, and a new social contract has replaced it - analysis

Dutch Education, Culture and Science Gouke Moes and the Egyptian Ambassador to the Netherlands during the formal handover ceremony of the stolen scultpure at the Egyptian embassy in the Hague, February 8, 2026.

Netherlands returns 3,500-year-old sculpture stolen from Egypt during Arab Spring

Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.

Yemen’s fractured power struggle deepens its humanitarian, political crisis - opinion


Israel isn't the epicenter of the violent storm that engulfs the Mideast

If we look objectively at the reality on the ground, it is not Israel that connects many of the Middle East’s trouble spots.

An airplane flies out of Beirut’s International Airport.

Middle Israel: 7 years later, drawing 4 conclusions from the Arab Spring

Seven years on, though the Arab Upheaval’s inferno is still raging, several conclusions must be drawn already now.

A boy watches as pro-democracy supporters gather in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 18, 2011.

Seven years later: The Arab Spring's messy endings

Most in the region are not looking back at those momentous events. Instead, they are dealing with the aftereffects.

Men shout slogans during demonstrations on the seventh anniversary of the toppling of president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, in Tunis, Tunisia January 14, 2018

Changing times

Bahrain is a tiny country of around 1.4 million citizens, including a tiny Jewish community.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) during the first Gulf Cooporative Council's (GCC) " GCC British Summit", in Sakhir Palace Bahrain, December 7, 2016.

End of Yemen's Saleh: 'Shot, wrapped in a blanket and chucked into a pickup'

The end of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh was quick and brutal, in contrast to his long regime that left Yemen a failed state

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh 311  (R)

Know comment: Fall reading recommendations

Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury, and they prefer “pragmatic” deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism.

Palestinian youths slinging rocks 521

Balfour was height of our diplomacy, Oren tells Christian audience

Deputy minister recalls fortune of being alive during State of Israel's existence.

Michael Oren, former ambassador to the US, speaking infront of  Christians United for Israel.

Libyan Jewry - 50 years on... A New Blue Review with David Gerby

The Jerusalem Post

Waging War on Qatar: Is a Third Gulf War Brewing?

The Jerusalem Post

Democracy and ‘America first’

One of the important conditions for a true democracy is a strong and dynamic middle class, and a central condition for the growth of the working class is a strong and liberal market economy.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures to the press