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Bresheeth, Haim (2012) 'The Arab Spring in view from Israel.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 5 (1). pp. 42-57.

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Abstract

The Arab Spring is one of the most complex and surprising political developments of the new century, especially after a decade of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab western propaganda. While is too early to properly evaluate the process and its various national apparitions, it is important to see it in a historical context. This article places the Arab Spring fijirmly within the history of pan Arabism, and the threat it posed to the west and Israel in its earlier, Nasserist phase. The work of Amin, Marfleet and others, is used to frame the current developments, and present the limited view offfered from an Israeli perspective, where any democratisation of the Arab world is seen as a threat. This is so despite the obvious influence the Arab Spring had on protest in Israel in Summer 1011, a protest which has now seemingly spent itself; it is fascinating to note that the only protest movement in the Middle East not involving violent clashes with the regime it criticised, is also the one which has not achieved any of its aims.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Pan-Arabism , Arab Spring , democratisation , Zionism , colonialism
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Media Studies
ISSN: 18739857
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1163/187398612X624364
Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2013 09:35
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17383

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