Tag: Arab Spring
A decade after Egypt’s revolution
Islamists' rapid rise to power in the Middle East following the Arab Spring revolutions came to a halt following a popular revolution that swept Egypt on June 30, 2013.
Several days of protests across the country were met with violence by...
Report: Obama offered Syria Israeli withdrawal from Golan Heights
Just a few months before the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, the Obama administration offered the Assad regime an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in return for severing ties with Iran...
Iran’s Bahrain campaign enters a dangerous new phase
The normalization of relations between Israel and Bahrain constitutes another significant and painful blow to Iran’s soft belly. However, unlike the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain is of particular historical, religious and political importance to...
Amid Independence Day celebrations, how Israel’s minorities view their status in the Jewish state
With Israel’s Independence Day, the battle of the narratives over Israel’s creation begins anew with mainstream Muslim Israeli Arabs remaining highly critical of the state, despite living standards that dwarf those in Arab states...