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Arab Spring and regional threats

Houthi supporters burn the American flag during a rally to mark the seventh anniversary of the Houthis' takeover of the Yemeni capital, in Sanaa, Yemen, September 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
December 28, 2023, 4:29 pm
The power behind the power: How Qatar helped the Houthis become a threat to Israel
While the militia recently emerged as an unlikely menace to international shipping, its combative influence in the region has long been amplified by Doha
By Ksenia Svetlova
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
April 16, 2021, 8:57 am
How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent
Under Netanyahu’s leadership, the Jewish state survived the difficult early years to come out on top as Iran and jihadists are on the defensive
By Lazar Berman
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and the author of books and scholarly works dealing with the Middle East. (Screenshot: YouTube)
July 6, 2016, 5:00 am
The West fundamentally misunderstands the ethos of the ‘caliphate,’ writes Muslim author
In a region rocked by residual effects of imperialism, ‘Israel-Palestine has almost become an afterthought,’ says Brookings Institution’s Shadi Hamid
By JP O’ Malley
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at a press conference in Madrid about the Yemeni civil war on April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
April 20, 2015, 2:29 pm
Iran FM urges ‘regional dialogue,’ resolution of Yemen conflict
In New York Times op-ed, Mohammad Javad Zarif says nuclear program only ‘symptom’ of broader Mideast unrest
By ToI Staff
A girl lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity (Nativity candles photo via Shutterstock)
December 22, 2013, 3:50 am
Are Bethlehem’s Christians losing grip on their city?
With a low birth rate and high emigration, members of a shrinking minority in Christianity’s birthplace keep a wary eye on their neighbors
By Debra Kamin
Egyptian security forces fire tear gas to disperse students and supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president after they rallied outside a Cairo university, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Eman Helal)
November 29, 2013, 8:51 am
Is Israel really safer thanks to the Arab Spring?
Arab columnists question Israel’s self-confidence in light of the political precariousness of its neighbors
By Elhanan Miller
The ancient souk in Aleppo. (photo credit: Wikimedia)
November 5, 2013, 9:00 am
To save Middle East’s cultural treasures, a race against time
The precious historical sites of Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries could become another casualty of the Arab Spring
By Debra Kamin
An Egyptian girl attends a protest by supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi, in Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, Friday Nov. 1, 2013. Her headband bears the four-fingered emblem which has become a symbol of the Rabiah al-Adawiya mosque, where Morsi supporters held a sit-in for weeks that was violently dispersed in August. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
November 1, 2013, 10:55 pm
Morsi’s trial fraught with risks
Ousted president’s trial only compounds the army-backed government’s troubles, rather than closing the chapter on his rule
By Sarah El Deeb
Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, June 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 5, 2013, 6:00 pm
Police to face unprecedented challenges, says chief
Commissioner warns that the legacy of the Arab Spring and the war in Syria require special preparations
By Stuart Winer
A man looks at documents at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. (Ibrahim Alaguri/AP)
December 8, 2012, 6:25 am
Egypt detains alleged mastermind behind Benghazi consulate attacks
Suspect is one of most menacing operatives to have emerged in the region after Arab Spring, according to Western assessments
By Michal Shmulovich and AP
New Egyptian Ambassador Salem, left, with then-president Shimon Peres in his Jerusalem residence in October 2012 (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2012, 2:31 pm
New Egyptian ambassador brings Israel ‘message of peace’
‘We are really working for mutual trust and transparency,’ Atef Salem tells Peres in Jerusalem, bring letter from Morsi to his ‘great and good friend’; Jordanian envoy also presents credentials
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Courtesy JAFI)
October 11, 2012, 1:25 am
‘Too bad the Arab Spring didn’t happen 20 years ago,’ says Natan Sharansky
There will always be anti-Semitism in the Middle East, but the more democratic Arab states become, the less dangerous they are for Israel, the Jewish Agency chairman asserts
By Raphael Ahren
Aviv Kochavi, a former commander of the Gaza Division, being promoted to major general and assuming command over the Intelligence Corps in 2010 (photo credit: IDF Spokesman/Flash 90)
July 17, 2012, 5:30 pm
Intel chief warns of rising terror on northern and southern borders
Military Intelligence head Aviv Kochavi tells Knesset committee of jihadis flowing into Syria, endangering Golan Heights
By Mitch Ginsburg
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