Arab Spring

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

As Yemen fractures between competing power centers, millions face poverty and hunger.

|ByNEVILLE TELLER
Yemeni children play soccer at a displaced persons camp in Marib, Yemen, October 29, 2024.
A TUNISIAN expatriate shouts slogans while holding a placard reading ‘Free Tunisia,’ as he demonstrates on January 15, 2011, in Paris.

Protests and power vacuums: What the Arab Spring can teach us about Iran's protests

MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a lesson Jerusalem cannot ignore as Iran convulses.

|ByHERB KEINON
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 17, 2025; illustrative.

Egyptian President Sisi issues orders to study a possible pardon for activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

The high-profile Abd el-Fattah, 43, spent most of the past decade in prison, and had been on a hunger strike since March 1.

|ByREUTERS
ANGRY YOUTHS gather in central Cairo in 2012, protesting thenEgyptian president Islamist Mohamed Morsi, near Tahrir Square, the heart of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak

'The Great Betrayal': Revolutions rarely succeed in the first attempt - review

Fawaz Gerges makes a compelling case that political and economic reform has been stifled by several mutually reinforcing factors.

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER

Senator Leiberman weighs in on America’s retreat from the Middle East, and global responsibilities

FEBRUARY 26, 2016ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office indicts 16-year-old Arab girl for attempted murder

East Jerusalem teen attacked Border Police officer stationed at Damascus Gate with kitchen knife.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
The knife used in a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate.

IDF unit shoots dead 2 West Bank terrorists in exchange of fire

The incident began when an IDF lookout position spotted two Palestinian hurling rocks near the security fence located north of Jenin, in the area of Arake village.

FEBRUARY 14, 2016ByYAAKOV LAPPIN
Security forces at a checkpoint near Jenin

Is this Palestine's Arab Spring?

JANUARY 2, 2016ByDAVID ALLOUCHE
The Jerusalem Post

Lowering the bar

Arab Israelis remain destined to play the role of usual suspects forever called on to prove their allegiance to Israel.

DECEMBER 28, 2015ByILAN MANOR
An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh

Five years later: How the US and EU failed the Arab Spring

Analysis on the debate surrounding the Arab revolts tends to center on basic human nature.

DECEMBER 20, 2015ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
People stand on a bridge overlooking the river Nile as many Egyptians walk on the streets with Egyptian flags in Cairo

‘Arab Spring and Iranian threat have opened way for improved Arab-Israel relations’

Jordanian think tank: No fear of Islamic State in kingdom.

DECEMBER 10, 2015ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
A MILITARY truck carrying a missile and a picture of Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei drives in a parade marking the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war in Tehran

America’s “Gospel of Democracy” meets Putin’s Realpolitik: Russia’s return in force to the Middle East

NOVEMBER 29, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post

On the margin

The Palestinian issue is just one of many on the crowded agenda of Mideast governments and nowhere near the top of their priorities.

OCTOBER 29, 2015ByBRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN
Members and supporters of the Islamist party Hizb Ut-Tahrir rally in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, in support of Palestinians and against Russian and US intervention in Syria, October 16

Radical Islam and the Crusaders- Part 2 of “A Watershed”

OCTOBER 27, 2015ByDAVID TURNER
The Jerusalem Post