Arab Uprising: Israel the Biggest Loser

Regionally, Israel is the biggest loser. It has put all its eggs into the basket of Arab dictators and autocrats, like Egypt's deposed Hosni Mubarak. Israel fought tooth and nail to support Mr Mubarak, who played a key role in tightening the siege of Gaza and the noose around Hamas's neck.

Time and again, the Israeli political class has proven to be its own worst enemy. Israel lost Iran 40 years ago because it put all its eggs in the Shah's basket. It has just lost Turkey over the killing of nine activists on board a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship.

And now Israel is likely to lose Egypt, a critical and pivotal neighbour whose Camp David peace agreement in the late 1970s consolidated Israel's superiority in the region and undermined the official Arab state system.
Regardless of what governments emerge out of the rubble of political authoritarianism in the Arab world, they will have assertive foreign policies that challenge Israel's hegemony and further colonisation of Palestinian lands.
Meanwhile, the leadership of the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has lost all credibility in the eyes of the people there. The leaked negotiation documents obtained by al-Jazeera - offering wide-ranging concessions to the Israeli side - were the final nail in the PA's coffin.
Resistance-based movements like Hamas and Hezbollah have gained more popularity at the expense of Abbas's Palestinian Authority; they will emerge as major winners of the social turmoil unless Israel takes concrete steps to sign a peace settlement and withdraw from occupied Arab territories.
So Israel has become a military fortress. The best way for Israel to address its security dilemma is to accept a two-state solution as suggested by the international community - including its long-time ally, the US. full story

Fear Grips Israel

Mere passing of the two vessels, Alvand, a patrol frigate and Kharg, a supply ship of Iran through Suez Canal has made Israel shiver after the upheaval in the Middle East.
Israel took a "grave view" of the passage of the Iranian ships at this turbulent time in its neighbour.
The fall of the puppet dictators of Tunisia and Egypt has shaken the Zionist regime and completely left her exposed. Israel has never been such insecure after the 1967 war.

Really! Mr.Gibbs

The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, noted Friday that the Iranian government had clamped down on news media coverage of the events in Egypt, and that it did not permit its own citizens to freely express their opinions. “What you’ve seen in the region is the government of Iran, quite frankly, scared of the will of its people,” Mr. Gibbs said.
Doubts remained about the fate of a separate rally in support of the uprisings, proposed by two leaders of Iran’s opposition movement, Mir Hussein Moussavi, a former prime minister, and Mehdi Karroubi, a former speaker of Parliament.

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The spokesman did not see in the region that US puppet regimes, say in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Libya, and Algeria scared of the will of their people?